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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1950
Page
9
Complete line of Atlas tools and accessories offered for home shop demonstrations at 654 Grant Street. Atlas and Atlas Power King Tools showcased as ideal Christmas gifts. Start your home shop now and contact via 2259-W or visit after 4 P M. Landing Timber and Weaver Lumber Co advertise local supplies.
Customs officials acting on Commerce orders directed unloading of cargo bound for Red China or Hong Kong from three freighters in San Francisco. Twelve tons of extra hard steel from the Igadi was ordered off, consigned to a Red China firm in Tientsin. Silicon steel sheets shipped by the Pacific Trading Co of Boston were also removed.
A 35 year old wife seeks guidance about leaving her good husband for a younger lover. Dorothy Dix warns against abandoning children and domestic stability, urging focus on family and consequences. A follow up from a widow asks about life after loss. Dix counsels on resilience, rebuilding happiness, and moving forward despite grief.
A mixed puzzle page presents an across and down crossword with clues, plus a cryptogram quotation from Longfellow. The cryptogram decodes by a substitution cipher where A maps to L and X to O among others, producing a famous line. Readers test wordplay and solve for letters and the quotation.
Yesterday's Cryptoquote offers a Virgil quote about love. The phrase LOVE CONSUMES ME NEVERTHE LESS appears as a puzzle item, likely published in a local sports or puzzle page for reader engagement.
A 16 year old asks if wearing glasses hurts her popularity. Dorothy Dix advises wearing glasses, noting modern frames are not disfiguring and can brighten a dull face. The column answers general reader questions rather than personal replies.
Mrs Cora Hopkins aged 84 was killed yesterday in a collision of two automobiles near New Sharon. Three others sustained injuries in the traffic accident.
The Vatican announced a relaxation of the centuries-old code governing cloistered nuns enabling visitation and some teaching. The Vatican state secretariat said the change aims to make access to apostolic life easier for cloistered nuns.
Military personnel in uniform will ride at reduced round trip coach fares on national railroads from December 15 to January 10. The discount applies to service men and women during the Christmas holiday period.
The Mobile Junior Chamber of Commerce asks the January county grand jury to investigate alleged vice and gambling in Mobile. The prior grand jury was dissolved by circuit court without indictments after weeks of inquiry. Local Methodist ministers denounced the dismissal, while State Attorney General Albert Carmichael claimed the jury had little evidence and accused political factions of using it as a cat's paw.
The proposal sets travel at two cents per mile and imposes a return deadline of January 15, marking a strict limit on reimbursement and trip duration.
Gene Roberts of the New York Giants rushed for 218 yards against the Chicago Cardinals, breaking Cliff Battles' 1933 NFL rushing record and set a new all time mark for single game performance.
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