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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1941
Page
4
The article comments on Walter Winchell and President Roosevelt with reflections on resilience and public duty. It mentions a Chicago Tribune rivalry, Silliman’s papers, and praise for the Decatur Red Raiders players who apologized for Thanksgiving Day incidents.
City officials propose 16 mph in school districts and 30 mph elsewhere to reduce accidents. They urge enforcement and reference Birmingham and Memphis as examples while calling for defense-area designation to unlock housing and construction funds pending federal approval.
The Roosevelt administration backs the Douglas dam in the Cumberland river basin for national defense. Senator McKellar opposes, urging quicker, cheaper alternatives elsewhere. Engineers say Douglas costs less and can be built in twelve months. Alabama leaders favor Birmingham for ABA meetings but seek timing changes to avoid Easter conflict.
Wartime notes recount Roosevelt bargaining with unions over a wage rise and rail freight costs totaling hundreds of millions. Congress confronts a divisive anti strike bill amid Democratic splits. Reports on Soviet defense and German missteps attribute Moscow troubles to weather and mines. Japan moves a large ship toward San Francisco signaling delayed wartime strain.
Five more planes arrived Saturday at Southern Aviation Mining School bringing in service to about thirty six. Hangar space for 50 to 60 planes is available and a third hangar may be built early next year. Graduation ceremonies are planned for the first class with graduates moving to Greenville Mississippi for basic training and a Decatur class of about 100 cadets is expected later in December. More than three million people have died of tuberculosis in the United States in thirty years.
A 1930 1939 overview of Baker Memorial Hospital Boston serving moderate income patients. It notes costs 4.50 to 6.00 a day room and 6.00 to 24.00 weekly for insurance cases, lab fees 10, X ray 5 to 50, cap of 150 per patient, and 70 average. Patient satisfaction high with nursing and services.
A collage of humorous bits and social satire touching on municipal parking, farm life, rationing, manners, and highway safety. The pieces lampoon bureaucratic obtuseness, comic misunderstandings, and cultural quirks with quick quips and playful wordplay.
A reader from Los Angeles asks if saccharin in tea and coffee causes dizziness or other harm. The answer states saccharin has been thoroughly investigated and even large, long term use does not cause harm.
Readers may obtain seven pamphlets by sending 10 cents per pamphlet in coin along with a self addressed stamped envelope to Dr Logan Clendening. The topics include Three Weeks Reducing Diet Indigestion and Constipation Reducing and Gaining Infant Feeding Instructions for the Treatment of Diabetes Feminine Hygiene and The Care of the Hair and Skin.
A dense, humorous 1961 syndicated piece mixes trivia and social quirks. It jokes about language, culture, and global happenings, listing curious notes on censorship in Japan, romance in Liberia, and various oddities. The tone mimics a retired columnist’s brush with global curios.
A dated quip imagines a benevolent rescuer visiting the blind cripples mutes and sick but the punchline shifts to a boast about a bull and a one horned auto. A final joke defines a groom as a man who cares for dumb animals in a bridegroom exchange.
A jumble of anecdotes questions about Handel and marriage, Swiss drinkers, kissing, Napoleon hats, and Chinese patients. A German film in Oslo provokes locals, while Norwegian fences display anti Nazi and pro Russia slogans and a daylight retort about cowards.
A late November gathering drew elders to the century-old landmarker in New Providence near Glenwood Crenshaw County. Officials note participants from Alabama North and South Carolina Georgia and Florida joined in the program.
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