Morgan County Farmers Vote December 10 On Marketing Quotas
Farmers in Morgan County will vote at about 35 polling sites on December 10 to decide whether to continue marketing quotas for 1939. The county committee urges all cotton producers and tenants to cast ballots, noting the 1938 crop impact with and without quotas.
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Morgan County
Marteelle
Alabam
Mar
Jas. S. Barter
Louis C. Thompson
John H. Harvey
Alabama Polytechnic forms first women’s glee club
Auburn news reports the first women’s glee club at Alabama Polytechnic Institute with sixty seven students attending rehearsals under director Lawrence Barnett. Rehearsals occur twice weekly.
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Auburn
Ala
Alabama Polytechnic Institute
Lawrence Barnett
Local residents visit and travel through nearby towns
A string of visits and trips reported across Decatur Hartselle Priceville and Guntersville includes A M Peck from Decatur G D Mikell returning from Guntersville C L Peck on a business trip and Mr and Mrs C P Johnston at Priceville for ball games Also Carl Patterson W T Wade and wife O P Johnston and wife plus Mrs Will Sharp Rt 3 of Hartselle all noted visiting or passing through this community Monday to Thursday through the week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. M. Peck
Decatur
Talmadge Russell
W. T. Wade
Hartselle
Alee Joe Winton
O. P. Johnston
Will Sharp
Rt. 3
Seventeen Missing After Ship Collision Near Ushant
In dense fog off Ushant in the English Channel the Greek freighter Akti collided with the South American liner La Plata. Sixteen Akti crewmen and one woman were missing. fifteen Akti crew were rescued and towed to Brest. Captain Schneckloth reported the La Plata’s hold was one third submerged.
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Hamburg
Germany
la Plata
Ushant
Brest
Schneckloth
Debating Groups to Meet Next Week at Riverside High
The Lambda Phi Sigma fraternity at Riverside high school held its weekly meeting yesterday after the program. A challenge for debate was read by the debating team manager from the Riverside Debating Club, and the two groups will meet in a chapel program next week. A photograph for the 1939 Decatur high school annual was taken, with new members Charles Abbot Elmer Lloyd David Hulse and Shirley Lowery present.
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Lambda?Phi Sigma
Riverside High School
Debating Club
Riverside
Decatur High School
Charles Abbot
Elmer Lloyd
David Hulse
Shirley Lowery
Crazy House Farce Promises Large Cast at Riverside
Mrs D C Shaw publicity chair expresses high interest in the faculty play Crazy House to be staged at Riverside Auditorium on December 8 and 9. Decatur council of parents and teachers sponsors the three act farce under Mrs Henry Richeson guidance with an engaging cast. Large attendance expected.
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D. C. Shaw
Riverside Auditorium
Decatur Council of Parents and Teachers
Henry Richeson
Emily Neville
Pickets Hold Fast as Fisher Plant Standoff Continues
Pickets remained on duty at Fisher Body Plant No. 1 in Flint as a strike settlement with General Motors awaits union ratification. About 6,400 workers were involved. 3,000 Buick workers, reliant on Fisher for bodies, were sent home earlier. The settlement, finalized in Detroit after long talks, is to be submitted to union members tonight for approval with reopening expected Tuesday.
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Flint
Mich
Fisher Body
United Auto Workers
General Motors Corp
Detroit
Buick Planit
Fisher
Buick
Homer Martin
UAW
Flint Uaw
Martin
General Motors
Work Inaugurated At Memorial Drive Church
Inauguration this morning launched improvements at Memorial Drive Methodist Church. Interior will be rearranged with a choir installed and a Sunday school annex planned soon. A Saturday chicken supper boosted funds for the annex.
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Memorial Drive Methodist Church
Special Christmas Service Planned at Memorial Drive Church
Rev. R. D. Cook and the Memorial Drive Methodist church official board announce a special Christmas morning service with combined Sunday school and worship at 10 30. The choir will tell the life of Jesus in song with scripture, followed by a brief message titled The Proof of Christianity.
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R. D. Cook
Memorial Drive Methodist Church
Jesus
Soap usage in US dwarfs global demand by a third
The United States uses about one third of the world’s soap supply, roughly 10 billion pounds, to maintain its current level of cleanliness. This highlights the large share of domestic consumption in global soap production.
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United States
WPA Safety Class to Meet Tonight at Courthouse
The WPA safety class will meet tonight at the courthouse directed by H. L. Thornton of the state highway patrol. It claims to be the largest in the state with 160 enrolled and about 150 attending on average, aiming to finish before Christmas holidays.
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WPA
H. L. Thornton
State Highway Patrol
Ostrich Egg Boiling Time Noted in Classic Tip
A bygone tidbit claims it takes 40 minutes to hard boil an ostrich egg and that one ostrich egg equals 20 hen eggs in size.
Cleveland Bridge Stars Capture Open Pair Title
A Cleveland housewife and city official won the American Contract League Open Pair title against 105 entrants. Mrs. Harry E. Punk and Frank E. Bubna led a field that included top national names. Edward W Perry and wife won the national amateur pair. Oswald Jacoby and Charles Lockridge finished fifth. defending champs Von Zedtwitz Barnes placed 24th.
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Cleveland
Harry E. Punk
Prank FE. Bubna
A. M. Sobol
Alphonse Moyse, Jr
James H. Lemon
Washington
Day
Edward W Perry
Euclid O
Oswald Jacoby
Dallas
Tex
Charles Lockridge
New York
Waldemar,Von Zedtwitz
A. Mortimer Barnes
Josephine Culbertson
Charles Vogelhofer
Calotabs Advertised As Aid To Fight Colds
Millions use Calotabs to throw off colds by cleansing the intestinal tract of virus laden mucus and toxins and by acting as a diuretic to remove cold poisons from the blood. The ad promotes a double action purgative and diuretic and lists price at twenty five cents for a family pack and ten cents for a trial package.
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Center Grove
Danville
Neel
Macedonia Church
Pleasant Hill
Crow & Grow Hardware Co
Austinville City
McClellan's
Eva
Oden Ridge
Lawrence Cove
New School
Lacon
Ashwapder's
Falkyville
Cole Springs
Florette
Gum Pond
Oak Ridge
Hartnelle City
Cedar Creek
Laceys Spring
Massey
Massey-Andrew's
Priceville
Ryans Cross Roads
Community Center
Somerville
Winton
Turney's Cross Roads
Union
Brookaville Trinity
D. H. Dean's
BE. H. Dean's
Union Hill School
Wolfe Beat
Rescue
Hulaco
BAYER
NEA Radiophoto
Harwich
England
Girls Glee Club
This
Wurlitzer
Chickering
Haddorff
B. E. Forbes & Sons
Morgan Coun Somerville
Wayward
Bainbridge
Robert Bready
Russell Bready
Memorial Drive
James A. Walsh, Jr
Princeton Triangle Club
Bendix Home Laundry
Elam’s
Ladd
Southern Railway System
the Daily
Tion Charge
Minneapolis-Moline
Mohave
Crow & Crow Hardware Co
Second Ave
Moulton Street
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