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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1923
Page
2
Fragmented text appears to discuss financial figures and a stray critique of progress politics. The passage mentions the League of Nations mocked as deceased and references a person obstructing progress, plus a note about saving Thanksgiving for Christmas.
A compact reflection notes that a working man remains bound to routine despite holidays and expected rest. The piece contrasts duty with leisure, suggesting personal resolve shapes how one observes days off.
The article argues Southern textile workers can reach Northern efficiency levels. It cites J Ogden Wells and compares Southern and Northern climates, suggests Southern mills adopt New England methods, and notes progress over decades toward equal or superior performance. It emphasizes time, training, and university role in advancing mill labor.
Morgan residents have many reasons to be thankful this year says the Hartselle Herald. The paper notes improving macadam roads enabling year round travel, advancing schools in rural county buildings, well kept barns, and plentiful pork.
The Anniston Star notes Morgan County residents will enjoy a plentiful Thanksgiving with ample food and blessings. It contrasts Alabama counties that lack enumeration of their blessings, but assures Morgan County will have everything needed for a devout thanks.
The piece urges community support for the local Y M C A as a historic, multi use center. It notes building operations and services funded by members and the Louisville and Nashville Railroad while calling for broader citizenship funding to reach a 2000 member goal in a campaign ahead on Monday.
Community group meets at Central church tonight to practice new songs under B B directive. A short church recital is planned, ahead of Sunday's concert at the Masonic theater with Mrs Tidwell presenting the program.
J. W. Cunningham, prominent businessman, returned from Memphis and Minneapolis where he attended state missions. He was questioned in a stock investigation and the legality of offers for sale under blue sky laws, with state permission required before offerings to the public.
Local Methodist leaders report Rockefeller Foundation offered 8000 dollars for current expenses and a larger sum if alumni and others raise more. Belief abounds that the needed endowment will be secured as the college rapidly grows into one of the Souths largest institutions.
The Interstate Commerce Commission laid down new bases for applying express rates to food consignments and ordered carriers to set new schedules by February 1. Rates on food shipments are found to be too high and should be reduced by 10 to 20 percent. The brief item also includes a humorous stitched pun involving a seamstress and a bemused doctor with dialogue about recovering from stitches and a sympathetic husband.
A beggar explains to a lady that science demands many victims and he is one of them. The exchange centers on fingerprints as the method causing his fate. The brief dialogue ends with the woman reacting to the claim.
A humorous exchange where Wifey visits the office and seeks a pair of water-wings for her husband. He reflects on what is classic as he jokes about the meaning of old things. The scene centers on light domestic banter and a playful moment.
A speaker recalls a friend who helped him in hard times and describes sacrifices to afford essentials. He notes personal restraint such as cutting lunch to a single hot dog to buy gasoline, illustrating shared struggle and empathy.
A Boston man remarks he met many locals and asks where something is located, provoking a terse reply from a New Yorker who questions what is being asked.
A puzzled boy asks what an inventor is in a quirky exchange. The speaker awkwardly defines inventors as men who think up ways to do things, with a phrasing that reads like a misheard or garbled speech from the era.
Fragmentary lines show a speaker named Kennard Avell or T W asserting he rose from barefoot beginnings. The text frames the speaker as a self-made man addressing an audience, contrasting lack of shoes with later achievement.
The Menther family fields a nine from Higgins Town with Fred Menther age 79 guiding the club. Brothers August 36 Henry 19 along with six additional siblings form a core that plays ball against Clare Beaverton Gladwin Rosebud and Colenia teams. Papa Menther keeps a weather eye on management as the youngsters age from 19 to 36 balance farm work and Sunday games amid hopes for league success.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions gifts and quality but lacks clear event or person details. The readable parts suggest a discussion of a shirt and a hurry scenario with unspecified names or places. No verifiable facts to confirm a proper news item.
Oklahoma City December 3 Murray P. Gibbons state representative from McClain county and former speaker resigns through counsel as his expulsion case is called in the house.
Funeral arrangements are set for Mrs. Ponder who died at her daughter’s home. The service will be conducted by Rev. A Cla at the Friendship church near Danville, with interment in the churchyard. She was 80 and survived by her daughter Mrs J Dingmore and her son Rev Guy Ponder, a minister of the North Alabama Conference of the M E church South.
In Kansas three of thirteen prisoners who escaped from the Kansas beeey tear were sighted at Etterton's Station fourteen miles east of Lansing. A large posse of twenty to thirty prison guards and civilians hunted the fugitives nearby.
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