Trucker Narrowly Saved After Rafted Pit River Bridge Plunge
Hank Baum and Bud Overby haul radishes and watermelons toward Portland when their Sterling rig lost steering on the Pit River Bridge. The cab plunged forty feet, stopped against rocks. a rope from the bridge crew saved Baum as Overby and the crew pulled him free amid smoke and wreckage.
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Pit River
Shasta Lake
Hank Baum
Bud Overby
Los Angeles
Portland
Bailey Hill
Redding
Calif
Pit River Bridge
Baum
Overby
Hank
Malaria Vanishes In Health Report Of 1926 Alabama
The Albany Decatur Daily reports no malaria cases in November 1926 marking a health milestone before TVA river regulation. Nearby, land was bought for a Christian Science Church at Johnston Street and Sixth Avenue, a road crew eyed longer good weather for winter paving, and several men faced or avoided charges in a whiskey case.
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Albany-Decatur Daily
Tennessee Valley Authority
Moulton-Decatur
Jack Daniels
Daniels
Addison R. Smith
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Charles P. Anderson
Alabama
Bibb Graves
W. W. Brandon
Keller Bridge Named for Keller Memorial in Tennessee River Roll
The 1926 Keller Memorial name becomes the new Tennessee River bridge name to honor William S. Keller, the first state highway commissioner and organizer of the commission in 1919. He served until his death in 192. A Cleveland inspector bans dancing the Black Bottom, calling it violent and wiggling too much. The humor column adds a joke about a missionary movement and a Charleston comparison. John Bunyan was imprisoned at Bedford in 1672 while writing Pilgrim's Progress.
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Cleveland
Charles Johnson
Flapper
Charleston
John Bunyan
Bedford
England
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Holman
Keller
Decatur
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Cross
Schaffer
Papermate
Hallmark
Office Supply Company
Grant St
Decatur, al
First State Bank
Santa
First State Bank of Decatur
Johnston Street
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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