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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1936
Page
7
Mrs. W. P. Snugges hosts Current Review Club gathering at South Highlands with Christ decorations and a Christmas program. Mrs. Elliott Peck opens with a Christmas story, duet by Mrs. Quinn and Mrs. Barcliff, twenty-two members attend.
Anne Adams presents pattern 4274 for a high waist line frock with optional long or short sleeves and swinging skirt. Available sizes 12 through 40, 54 inch fabric for size 16, includes illustrated instructions. Send 15 cents for pattern and 25 cents for book or both for 25 cents. The Decatur Daily Pattern Department New York address provided.
December 19 program offers comedies and cartoons with admission in needed food items for shut ins and the needy. Morgan County High announces first and second honor rolls with many named students. Local society notes cover Methodist Missionary circles, several personal news items, and visits by residents and guests during the Christmas season.
Ten attractive young residents formed the Bemis Club in Athens planning a gay holiday season. Members include Margaret Idie Bettie Zue Roper Edwina yors Elie Walker Richardson Kate Garth M Hampton Sarah Hunter Mary Dean French Morton Belue and Marie Rudolph. The article notes social events and visits by local residents including Mrs C H, Mrs Marion Spidley, Mrs Marvin Gray, Miss Henrietta Hine and Mrs (. D. White.
William Schmidt failed to haul in his catch when the line snapped while lifting a large bass onto his boat on the San Joaquin river. The fish was found snarled on the broken line near the anchor, drawing a crowd of relatives and friends.
Miss Glad's beauty column advises dieting and home exercise to shape the male body, noting gym options and simple routines for toning. It promotes her pamphlets on The New Figure and Beauty Culture and offers mail correspondence for personal beauty questions.
San Antonio Texas dispatch reports Lieut. J. W. Kelly Randolph Field instructor and Cadet Morris Pelham from Anniston Alabama injured when their training plane crashed near Zeuhl Field. Pelham suffered a fractured jaw and facial injuries.
Indiana state police chief Donald F. Stiver ordered force to use every means to capture three Al Brady gang fugitives. He blamed the Brady gunmen for at least two killings and numerous bank and jewelry store holdups across Indiana and Ohio in the past nine months.
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