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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1940
Page
6
Local readers discuss a possible city basketball league this year while Alabama football fans anticipate All-Star selections. The column notes a busy season ahead with plans for school buildings, Benson Field improvements, and defense industry shifts as national concerns rise.
The Florence bridge refinancing shows Alabama selling 868000 general obligation bonds at a premium with low interest, signaling fiscal stability. The piece credits Miller Dixon and the state’s leadership for restoring prudent budgeting while warning that sustained sound credit requires vigilance against waste and political perks.
Washington reports an internal plan to boost British aid after the new year. Treasury officials study rapid production and convoy options, with February 1 seen as a target. The William Allen White committee letter pushes four steps including national emergency, shipbuilding, and revised neutrality laws. Labor leader change and shipyard expansion plans edge into the debate.
Prof Cecil Weaver Rev Hugh Mitchell and J W Winton made a business trip to Decatur Monday. W T Wade called in Decatur Monday. Mrs C P Johnston visited Decatur Wednesday afternoon. J W Winton and grandson Don J Winton Mikell were in Hartsele Friday afternoon. Kyle Gilchrist Jr and Oral Mooneyham were in Hartselle Friday on business. Carter Davis works for Knox McRae Motor Company in Decatur. Tennessee native G Mikell of Columbia spent the weekend with his family Mr and Mrs J Earl Gurley Miss Johnston and Royal Henderson. Messy Jack Ransom and Cecil Weaver attended a teachers meeting in Hartselle Thursday. Mrs C P Johnson and nephew Don J Winton Mikell shopped in Decatur with Mrs G Mikell confined at home with a severe head and chest ailment.
Daily Want ad notes available rental options. Advert suggests finding quality apartments through the paper's classified section.
The column discusses whether wisdom teeth require removal absent pain or decay, notes late eruption and potential X-ray checks, explains muscle conditioning and one kidney viability, and includes audience Qs on urticaria and a sample ketogenic diet with a political joke ending.
Dr Logan Clendening offers seven pamphlets on diet indigestion reducing infant feeding diabetes feminine hygiene and hair skin for readers. Each pamphlet costs ten cents and readers may order by sending 40 cents plus a self addressed stamped envelope to Dr Clendening.
A noisy dialogue exchange in a school setting features a teacher, students and a janitor. Snippets reference Magna Carta questions pregnancy marriage and a mix of jokes about delay and deferment.
A citizen notes that nearly 70 percent of taxes go into prices of goods and services. Examples include 15 cents per dollar for autos, 25 cents for rent, and 12 to 20 cents for items like food, clothing, electricity, and medicines. The piece blends tax figures with a comic dialogue about trains and railroads.
In Salisbury on December 9 a public auction sold a horse for 90 cents after a mock bid with a dollar bill attached to its mane. The event drew no genuine bids and ended quickly with the horse and the dollar both knocked down for 90 cents.
Walter Winchell reviews December first week stage and screen offerings. Notes include The Romantic Mr Dickens and Delicate Story at New York venues, Diana Barry more, Jimmy Lavo, and The Northwest Mounted Police in revival. Mentions FDR era politics and media figures with period commentary.
Dr Edwin Wyle introduces a new Devotional Studies series in the Decatur Daily. The column urges daily immersion in the Bible as comfort and renewal amid global wars and moral crisis, arguing the Word of God offers healing for nations and guidance for individuals.
Mrs Beulah Dillinger of Little Rock Arkansas credits Gly Cas with reversing long standing muscular pains and back ache after years of constipation The testimonial claims relief from nerve tension improved sleep and weight gain following proper intestinal cleansing Gly Cas is sold locally.
The advertisement notes Loyds Drug Store in this city with promotion by leading druggists in surrounding towns.
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