Morgan County Notes and Local Visits Highlight Weekend
Mr and Mrs Calvin Ward and a New York family spent the weekend with Mrs W C Wade and relatives. Mrs Ward held a reunion with the entire family present for the first time in years. Mr and Mrs Aaron Julian and family returned to Birmingham after visiting relatives locally. Miss Mamie Roan and Mrs J Roan with a sister from Indiana visited Misses Daisy and Elsie Crawford. Ryan schools opened Monday with encouraging enrollment. An all day singing with dinner on the ground is planned at Ryan high school auditorium Sunday September 1. William Cagle after weeks with Ralph Bagnel his war service friend left Sunday.
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Calvin Ward
New York
W. C. Wade
Ryan High School
William Cagle
Ralph Bagnel
Tulsa Students Seek Room and Board for College
Carolyn Bramlett returns from a three week trip visiting Priceville and friends. Mrs Levy McKee resumes teaching at Ryan school after summers in Florence and New York. Mr and Mrs Ray Bates stay with L L Hornsby and plan to enter State Teachers College at Florence. Malcolm McAnear of Birmingham visits the community Saturday. Homer Bagwell family and Bramletts attend singing at William Springs on Sunday.
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Tulsa
Oklahoma
Carolyn Bramlett
Priceville
Levy McKee
Ryan School
Florence
New York
Ray Bates
L. L. Hornsby
State Teachers College
Malcolm McAnear
Birmingham
Homer Bagwell
Eloise
B. ¥. Bramlett
Carolyn
William SpRings
Morgan County Upton Chapel Notes and Family News
Discharges and homecomings include Sgt Furman Brown returning to his parents Mr and Mrs Marvin Brown. School opens at Upton's with Miss Berta Bates as teacher. Nearby families visit relatives across Decatur and Austinville. illness and prayer meetings noted. Local crops need rain as Allie Roberts and Carolyn visit Cora Roberts. John Wayne Franklin ill at home.
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Sgt
Furman Brown
U. S. Marines
Marvin Brown
Upton’s
Berta Bates
Carol Standridge
Ohio
Loyal Brown
Decatur
Earnest. Brown
John Wayne Franklin
J. W. Franklin
Buren’ . Williams
Charlie Harp Ang
Austinville
Tom Harp
J. F. Franklin
Dorothy
Olene Franks
Monk Franklin
de Moses Barton
Hoyt Harp
Sam Franks
Grace
Carrie Gene Brown
Walden’s Chapel
Elvie Roberts
Monroe Christian
Marie
Lydia. Roberts
Cora Roberts
J. C. White
R. R. Johnson
First long distance auto race from New York to Buffalo
America's early 1900s endurance event covered 462.2 miles from New York to Buffalo. Competitors completed the journey in six days of daytime driving at about 15 miles per hour on average.
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America
New York
Buffalo
Emperor Hirohito Maintains Vast Clock Collection
The Japanese emperor owns one of the world’s most valuable clock and watch collections and personally repairs and oils the pieces.
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Emperor Hirohito
Japan
How The Cards Lie And Household Jokes In Print
A collection of humor bits on politics and war slogans, French lessons, card games and domestic quips. The piece skewers public opinion during wartime and features light dialogues about language, royalty in cards, and a drug store salesman with a Hillbilly joke.
Qualities of Friendship in Honest Bonds
The piece explores Emersons idea that to have a true friend one must be a friend. It contrasts genuine friendship with fair weather ties and notes true friends offer support, honesty, and constructive criticism. A courtroom joke about presidents concludes the excerpt.
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Emerson
It Might Have Been Worse A Revised Verse Line
A fragmentary humorous exchange blends aphorisms with street dialogue about neighborly chores and imaginary evils. The lines echo maxims and quips on human behavior and social mores from a dated collection.
Thou Shalt Not Steal and the Right Use of Property
An analysis of the commandment Thou shalt not steal, exploring broad and small forms of theft from cheating on exams and fare dodging to graft and lying about ages. The piece cites Deuteronomy weights, Proverbs warnings, and Jesus teachings on riches, trust, and generosity, stressing personal responsibility to family and poor, and cites Zacchaeus restoring fourfold after faith.
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Newman Campbell
Moses
Palestine
Solomon
Jesus
God
Zacchaeus
Atures Syndicate, Inc
Oak Ridge Junior High Opens With Principal Murray Brasswell
Morgan County reports Oak Ridge Junior High School opened Monday August 26 with principal Murray Brasswell and a faculty including Mrs. Arthur White and Miss Ruby West. The column notes various local visits, travel, and social updates among residents with several names and connections.
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Oak Ridge Junior High School
Murray Brasswell
Arthur White
Ruby West
Caroline Vandiver
Chattanooga
Frank Vandiver
Dorothy Vandiver
Richard Wallace
Veterans Hospital
Montgomery
Olen Cooper
Tennessee
Skim Milk Mass Exceeds Half of Whole Milk Weight
The remainder skim milk after removing butterfat is over half the weight of the whole milk. The Star of the West pearl, discovered off Australia in 1917, weighed about 3 12 ounces and sold for 44,800 dollars.
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Australia
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W. M. Chenault Real Estate and Insurance Agency
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Washington
John Adams
Dad
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Zola Mae Legg
Johnnie Butler
Lois Howard
Flint
Wilma Hartselle
Dorothy Hartselle
Clara Brown
Neel
W. A. Thompson
Jerrell
Violet Cek
W. O. Terry
Hoyt West
Hartselle
Albert Nicholson
Earl Legg
Hugh Townson
Edna Townson
Ishmel Martin
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Surniiture
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