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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1961
Page
6
A reader contest announces a Britannica prize and lists tobacco production facts and curing methods. It includes jokes from the Chuckle Box and Trick Box sections and notes a winner from West Hartford, Conn. The запeral entries invite questions and riddles to the newspaper page.
Michael Guidry twenty from Houston was charged with robbery after a sandwich shop operator reported a man threatened him with a bottle and took 56 dollars. Guidry, an Air Force airman, turned himself in to a chaplain at Gunter Air Force Base where he is stationed.
A West Decatur School sixth grader, Jane Roberts, won a Britannica Junior encyclopedia set for answering in The Decatur Daily Tell Me Why column that freedom of worship is the most important right. She, 11, lives with her parents at 704 3rd St. SW and attends Westside Baptist Church.
A barber tries a hair restorer on a thinning hair customer who later finds his wife used the bottle as furniture polish. A joke about a sideboard shave follows. In a supermarket a boy calls his mother Martha and is told to call her mother. A salesman is advised to improve and a Scotchman story ends with a gas meter piggy bank joke.
A terse item notes the end of a suspect’s crime spree with the line My holdup days are over, followed by his declaration to linger near the city’s drinking spots. Authorities are tightening patrols around known trouble spots as residents react.
In Decatur a sign in a local ice cream shop puffs up a quirky boast king-size half-quart prompting passersby to smirk while a weary L Wessington laments an exhausted day. A consultant-colleague arrives at the last moment to share blame for the muddled scene.
Fragmented text shows jokes lines and ad snippets with a line about Louise Darcy and an aside on inebriation. It includes a quip about a man lost among trees and brief remarks on tuberculosis research and a general want ads line. The passage appears as scattered clippings rather than a single coherent article.
New York gossip column notes a star studded Waldorf party for the film Let's Twist and the Peppermint Lounge event. Celebrities including JFK, MacArthur, Bergman, and Sinatra are mentioned with jokes about the Twist craze and Hollywood careers.
A claim states ten million people work in the United States in the storing transporting processing and merchandising of agricultural products. The notice ends with an advertising exhortation that want ads get results.
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