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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1937
Page
4
Fragmentary press wire text outlines Associated Press dispatches but lacks coherent events or names. It notes re publication rights and paper credit, with garbled lines about delivery and subscription terms. No identifiable people or places are readable in the legible portions.
Report notes persistently low voter interest in the Senate race with limited fundraising and sparse campaign events. Analysts caution that turnout could be weak, affecting key battlegrounds and party strategies ahead of the primary.
The passage notes Senator Carter Glass of Virginia as a leading statesman in finance, lauded by conservatives. It recalls a past when Glass helped found the federal reserve system, a move bankers once viewed as communist.
Tomorrow is Universal Bible Sunday in many churches across the nation. The Bible is described as the greatest volume ever written and the world's best seller, with an offer to obtain a home Bible for a few cents as a valuable investment.
Citizens praise the selection of Stephen Decatur as the armory's name calling it an illustrious choice. The dedication hopes the armory will become a city center for planned projects and future generations.
A reader describes a sequence of offices on Ferry Street including a state unemployment claims office a social security office and a burial insurance firm. The passage hints at a larger scheme and mentions aging pension eligibility and job insurance processes in a single city block.
United Automobile Workers struck the Ford assembly plant in Kansas City as 150 police kept order. The dispatch notes the strike amid recession fears and cites high unemployment and potential economic chaos if labor action escalates.
East chides New York sports writers for disappointment over missing a mid winter coast trip with a Rose Bowl bound Fordham team. Tuscaloosa News notes New Yorkers inferred Fordham did not get information to play in Pasadena.
The News notes dwindling interest in the Rose Bowl as California fans struggle to obtain tickets for a game in their home yard. Experts from the Fast claim the classic has lost appeal with Alabama unable to meet demand for the 86 000 seat contest announced just a week earlier.
The Washington Review argues for revisions to the undistributed profits tax, proposing new rates and exemptions. It notes a plan to exempt corporations under 25 000 dollars net income and set fiat rates for higher brackets with a 16 to 20 percent spread.
Clyde Hendrix, president of the Tennessee Valley Bank chain, was named winner in a state essay contest promoting guaranteed mortgage bonds as a savings investment. The article notes other local items including charity gifts, a YMCA meeting vote, a bowl bid for Wallace Wade's Alabama team, and a municipal government reform petition.
Washington observers report the farm bill debate stalled on the floor with insiders recalling overheard talks between rival senators. The piece notes broad dissatisfaction across factions, hope for conference revisions, and political maneuvering surrounding wage and hour issues and party leadership moves.
In Twin Falls Idaho on December 11 Mrs Julia Mills aged 83 was struck by an automobile after watching a high school class present the play Death Takes a Holiday.
M D Logan Clendening reports on the 1937 Nobel Prize in medicine awarded to Szent-Gyorgyi for work linking adrenal secretions to ascorbic acid the chemical basis of Vitamin C. The Hungarian scientist discovered paprika as a rich Vitamin C source and notes the body may synthesize vitamins, reducing reliance on diet.
A reflection on paths and journeys through life. The speaker contrasts different roads from the plain to the high and low roads, noting how most paths are hard and gray while some lead to a distant Somewhere. It ends with a hopeful note that we will meet at Somewhere.
Officers hunted a hitchhiker after a motorist gave him a ride. The car was later found wrecked nine miles away and the motorist had reported the youth missing. Detectives pieced together scant witness accounts from the Virginia road crash scene.
A reader reports tearing and weak eyes. The cause is closing of the tear duct that drains tears into the nose. Treatment is to dilate the duct to relieve the blockage.
A garbled editor note discusses medical terms and infant treatment in a historical context. It mentions Dr Clendening and a focus on care practices, though the text is fragmented and hard to decode.
The piece recalls a driver who stopped to help a stranger, only to suffer deadly consequences. It notes repeat tragedies of such incidents on the roads and warns that even with warnings motorists still invite danger by aiding strangers.
A Scotsman in a showroom resisted the salesman’s pitch until the offer of a clutch deal broke his resolve. He declared he would take the car, proving patience paid off with a free clutch incentive in a witty exchange.
A fragmented column voice muses on economic swings that push spending when income rises and saving when it falls. It jests about cider buyers, a tongue in cheek jab at the Hot Water Manufacturers Association, and ponders why good apples taste weak. The piece ends with a tease about a forthcoming married man’s reasoning.
The article debunks the belief that police dogs descend from wolves, asserting the breed is ancient and pure with centuries of development in its current form. It notes its German and European use as a herder and dismisses rumors of dog bear crosses as biologically absurd.
Athens Alabama December 11 funeral services were held for Orville Romine 16 the first hunting fatality of the season. He was accidentally shot by his brother Leslie while rabbit hunting in the snow Wednesday afternoon the shot was fired when the younger Romine was not visible and death was almost instantaneous.
In Pawhuska Oklahoma on December 11 the Oklahoma Poultry Association banquet announced a menu item of barbecued buffalo. The event highlighted local culinary offerings as part of the association meeting.
A garbled mix of quotes about apartments marriage swimming a lake and a World War cost plus a riddle about a father and son. The readable parts include a county constable inquiry about swimming and a line about paying twenty five thousand six hundred eighty two dollars to kill a soldier.
The snippet recalls a Szeged Nazi leader challenging a Jewish club member to a duel after antisemitic provocation. the tribunal forces the aggressor to duel, leaving the Nazi wounded and bloodied. It also touches on Lambs Club appearances, celebrity entrances, and nightlife chatter in New York, with notes on performers and industry ironies.
In a midtown night spot a page boy refused to bow to disrespectful patrons and was fired four weeks ago. He later cleaned out several waiters in a poker game, prompting the staff to threaten a walkout if he is dismissed. A brief social tale follows of a dubious young man preying on women at cab stands, claiming he has not eaten.
The column lists residents including Wil Me Ruf and Willie Nichols among the ill. It notes visits by Caroline Lammett, the Phillips family, Doak Mitchell, and the Fergusons, plus a cow loss for George Gey. A pie supper is announced for next Wednesday with an invitation to bring guests.
Former heavyweight champion James J. Braddock and manager Joe Gould each paid a $1,000 fine to the New York State Athletic Commission for failure to report the Braddock max Schmeling title bout that was scheduled for last June.
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