Call for harsher Alabama law on burglary
A note argues for amending Alabama law to impose the death sentence for housebreakers amid ongoing burglary waves.
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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1929
Page
4
Attempted Car Theft Targeting Hartselle Police Chief
A man tried to steal the automobile of Hartselle's police chief, an act described as inviting trouble, and the incident is compared to staging a collision with a police patrol.
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Hartselle
Alabama Seeks Quality Gubernatorial Timber Supply
A field front view notes Alabama has space for future timber needs while urging quality over quantity in the gubernatorial timber supply.
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Alabama
Commonwealth
Mail volume to break all records at local post office
Indications show the local post office will handle mail volume that breaks all records this year. The surge reflects a large Christmas business and signals Decatur's growing importance as a trade center.
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Decatur
Appeals for orphans Homes aid in Decatur
Appeals are being made in behalf of three de nominational orphans Homes in this state. People of Decatur will do their full part to make Christmas a happy season for the fortunate inmates of these worthy institutions.
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Decatur
Alabama farmers urged to join government cotton loan plan
Thousands of Alabama farmers have taken advantage of the government loan offer on cotton while others have not. If you still hold cotton for disposal the plan may prove financially beneficial to you and warrants investigation.
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Alabama
Hoover Predicted Prosperity Program Advances
The house ways and means committee reported favorably on a 160 million tax cut with only one dissenting vote. The article argues that if President Hoover retains control in Washington, government affairs at all levels will improve in the coming year for all classes of citizens.
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Hoover
House Pays and Means
Washington
Babson Finds Advertising Works But Costs differ
Roger W. Babson tested two ad methods spending 3000 dollars on newspaper ads and 3000 dollars on radio. Newspaper ads drew 4000 inquiries at 75 cents each while radio produced 16 inquiries and two orders at roughly 166.66 dollars per unit. He used brief storytelling in print and a music filled radio spot before talks on the Babson service.
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Roger W. Babson
Daily
Babson
Babson Statistical Service
Mea Isin Ag Magic
Seek Hay Fever Relief During Off Season
Column by COPELAND on hay fever relief urges readers to consult a doctor, inspect nasal passages, and consider treatments including sprays and serum. It notes pollen as a common trigger and suggests relocating temporarily to adverse climates like the Adirondacks or White Mountains.
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Copeland
New York
New York City
Adirondacks
White Mountains
North America
Happiness Found in Lowest Hovel Says Unhappy Folk
A reflective note argues happiness may dwell even among those who lament their relative social positions, suggesting contentment comes from perspective rather than status or wealth.
Efforts to Identify Lost Young Woman Sweep the Nation
Citizens and agencies pool pictures stories letters and calls to discover the young woman who surrendered to local police saying she did not know her name or home address. The goal is to locate her identity and reunite her with loved ones.
Jesus Confounds Pharisees in Temple Teaching
In John chapter eight, Jesus defends his testimony, stating he bears witness of himself and of the Father. He asserts knowledge of his origin and destination, while the Pharisees dispute the truth of two-witness testimony and fail to recognize him or the Father, as he teaches in the temple treasury.
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Jesus
Temple
Meetings Recessed by Masons Until Christmas
Masonic officials announced there will be no regular meetings of the Commandery or the chapter here until Christmas, effective immediately.
Christmas Quips and Cartoon Snippets of Daily Life
A collage of humorous lines and cartoons about work, romance, and social quirks. Jokes touch on trimming a Christmas tree, office satire, love and marriage misunderstandings, and light economics humor. The piece compiles brief, witty vignettes with playful language and comic scenarios.
Stars rise from war films to fame in early cinema
Hollywood notes that war era pictures like Wings What Price Glory Seventh Heaven and Birth of a Nation boosted careers. Jean Harlow headed the talking Hell's Angels with Chicago roots while veterans such as Rudolph Valentino Janet Gaynor and Clara Bow gained stardom through wartime epics and landmark productions.
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Robbin Coons
Hollywood
Sherman
Jean Harlow
Chicago
Wings
Dhother
Richard Arlen
Buddy Rogers
Clara Bow
Al‘ready
Gary Cooper
Dolorés del Rio
Charmaine
Victor. McLaglen
Edmund Lowe
John
Gilbert
Word
Renee Adoree
Melisande
Meade
Rudolph Valentino
Janet Gaynor
Karlie Farrell
Griffith
Lillian Gish
Henry B. Walthall
Mae Marsh
Miriam Cooper
Wallace Reid
Knutson’s Four Remarkable Canes Tell of Travels and War
Washington congressman Harold Knutson keeps four distinctive canes in his apartment. One amber cane from Costa Rica is made of melted fish scales. Another is carved from a shark backbone found in the West Indies. A bloodstained sword cane from Port au Prince was acquired after persuasion. The fourth is a bamboo cane from a Philippine commissioner in Washington, the sword noted as his favorite.
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Washington
Harold Knutson
Congress
Minnesota
Costa Rica
West
Indies
Cpume
Port Au. Prince
Knutson
Thait Port
Phillippine
New York Street Scenes and Fashion in Winter Weather
New York City reports frost touching vines and window displays. A funeral procession leads with brass band, storefronts advertise breakfast, and prominent homes show seasonal changes and changing window boxes. Antique displays and old New York prints draw passersby.
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Richard Maslock
New York
Forty-second Street
Helen Gould Shepard
Fifth Avenue
Jay Gould
Shepards
Canes From Everywhere Representative Knutson Gives Away Many Canes
Representative Knutson cultivates a world cane collection, but his pile has dwindled to seven or eight. Each evening he walks from the Capitol to the White House andGift a cane to a passerby in need, saying I have more than I need Won't you take it with my compliments. He has given away around 100 canes over time and continues his charity walk.
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Capitol
Pennsylvania Avenue
White House
West Indies
Knutson
Glossary of Gangster Slang Phrases
Gloss of ganister slang shows phrases such as He’s my cousin meaning he’s okay and Kfe’s a friend of mine meaning close ally. They put a bag over his head signals being put on the spot or taken for a ride by gangland. Over the bag refers to being dead drunk or plastered.
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Ganister
O. K
Kfe
Louise Faenda Joins New York Musical Scene
Louise Faenda emerges as a new ces star with a developed voice under Alexander Gray who also coaches an imported stage talent. Little Milt, eight, child of vau deville, becomes the first youngster under a long-term contract by I like other kids it’s Green. Moran set to sing in a New York musical comedy next year.
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Louise Faenda
Ces
Alexander Gray
New Star
Milt
Green
Moran
New York
Caught Short in Paris Fashion Shake Hits New York Dresses
The women’s wear jobbers face Christmas orders worries as Paris skirts plunge. New York dealers holding long and short dresses burn stock in bulk sales hoping to barely break even this year. Prices and demand falter under luxury trade slumps and market shocks.
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Paris
New York
Playboys And Girls Enjoy Private Parties After Shows
Saturday night is party night for actors and actresses with a day of rest ahead. They wind up the week with private gatherings in friends apartments or at the weekly Mayfair dance in the Ritz. They avoid cabarets preferring intimate long private parties. Stage people have less social life and stay up late, more like regulated children than bohemians.
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Ritz
Wise Returns From Capital After Masonic Session
W H Wise local agent of the Texas Old Company has returned from Montgomery where he attended a Masonic gathering. Wise serves as worshipful master of Rising Sun lodge in this city.
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Capital
W. H. Wise
The
Texas Old Company
Montgomery
Mr. Wise
Rising Sun Lodge
Childhood Knutson and the cherished family cane
The article recalls Knutson's childhood fascination with a beautiful rare old cane once owned by his grandfather. The cane inspired many family stories and grew to be treated with reverence by all relatives as a valued possession.
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Knutson
Broadway tale claimed true in popular magazine
A short story about a former Broadway star was described as true despite not being billed as such. The plot centers on the star and her tough friend who warns the husband that causing unhappiness would have severe consequences, leading the husband to acquiesce to the wife’s every whim. Names of the couple are not disclosed.
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Esat
Bors
Broadway
Red
Somewhat Improved FP Hughes After Influenza Attack
Somewhat improved FP Hughes of 205 Ninth Street South after an influenza illness. condition noted as better at this reporting.
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E. Hughes
9Th Street
The Perfect Man and the Inefficiency Expert
A poem fragment contrasts two men a paralyzed ideal who never errs and a hypothetical efficiency expert who takes two hours to eat lunch. It jokes about a magazine praising exercise noting boxing and boarding as similarly strenuous yet unproductive.
Undertaker Enshrined in Ominous Oath of Service
A compact verse from an older voice reflects on duty and loyalty to a false friend in grim terms. The speaker weighs ambitions, calling the Undertaker a symbol of service aligned with fate.
glossary style notes on machete tract and glade terms
The entry defines machete as a large heavy knife used in Cuba and South America for cutting sugar cane and as a weapon. It also defines tracate as a small book or tract and glade as a swampy grassy stretch or open passage in a wood.
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Cuba
South America
Mrs Jourdan Visits Iuka Then Birmingham Trip
Mrs J T Jourdan returned from Iuka Mississippi where she stayed with daughter Mrs P R Kimberly and Mrs Frank Lide. The party motored to Birmingham for weekend. Mrs W R Jones returned to Fayetteville Tennessee after visiting Mr and Mrs Ben Rowe. The low for the year reached twenty degrees above zero before daylight Sunday.
Three Children Die in Brooklyn Bomb Blast
Police pursue clues after a Brooklyn kitchen bomb killed 15 year old Mary Flazone 13 year old Phillip and 8 year old Rose. The mother and two younger siblings escaped unharmed while father Joseph Flazone was held for questioning.
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New York
Brooklyn
Mary Flazone
Phillip
Rose
Joseph Flazone
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