Christmas Parade Drives Buoyant Holiday Shopping Across Cities
Crowds packed downtown districts as holiday buying surged in cities including Birmingham Tuscaloosa Montgomery and Florence. Officials reported post office receipts up 11 percent in Birmingham and Tuscaloosa surpassing all 1936 holiday totals while merchants in Montgomery noted a late start yet growing optimism and heavy weekend shopping.
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Birmingham
Tuscaloosa
Montgomery
Sigmund Weil
Montgomery Retail Merchants Association
Dothan
Wiregrass
Pageant at Cave Springs Teaches The Star of Hope
A Christmas pageant titled The Star of Hope will be staged at Cave Springs by Collier. The public is invited to attend the performance and witness the holiday program.
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Cave Springs
Star of Hope
Collier
Homecoming and a Christmas Plan in a Parsonage
The narrator returns to his father's parsonage to warm meals and family comfort. Aunt Mary arranges a Christmas tree, carol walks, and the two worlds pull at the heart as Mimi remains distant. He finds solace in routine farm chores, writing in the church study, and Browning, while wrestling with longing and pride.
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Olga
Mimi
Mary
Jerry
Aunt Mary
Record Cotton Crop Swamps Northwest Texas Gins
O'Donnell Texas reports a record cotton yield with thousands of bales piling up as gins operate nonstop. Farmers haul in from Abilene and beyond while fires and storage pressures mount. Pickers work for 46 cents per 100 pounds as tents and improvised sheds line the fields.
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O'Donnell
Tex
Plains
Texas
Tn O’donnell
Abilene
Brownfield
Santa Banished From Japan Today
Tokyo December 21. Santa Claus is banned from Japan by a home ministry ordinance. The ban ends the festive celebration once popular in shops and departments stores, which planned to replace decorations with Japanese, German, and Italian flags amid anti-communist alliance signaling.
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Tokyo
Japan
Home Ministry
Patrols Called Off After Noise Problems Near Church
Church officials asked police to patrol a dangerous curve near the church during worship due to excessive noise. Police obliged and halted after a preacher, a county judge, and a deacon spoke. the patrol is no longer in effect.
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Laurinburg
WN. C
Voice of the People urges Morgan County voters to participate
A Decatur message from 1937 urges Morgan County citizens to wake up Christmas morning as qualified voters. It calls on those not on the voting list to visit the tax collector’s office in Decatur to register or pay for eligibility.
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Decatur
Ala
Fxictor
the Daily
Eejoy
Morgan County
Alabama
Couple Arrested On Drunk Driving Charge
State highway patrol officer spotted a man and woman walking along the Bee Line highway and arrested them on intoxication charges after observing their inability to navigate.
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State Highway Patrol
Cope+land
Bee Line Highway
Here
Omaha man quits dentistry after self filling cavities
H. H. Elliott of Omaha says he is through playing dentist. Last summer he filled five cavities himself with liquid solder to avoid a dentist. The fillings dropped out, but the jaw ache eased and the tongue pain ended, and his appetite returned.
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Omaha
Neb
H. H. Elliott
Eliott
Christmas Greeting From J D Cloud of Decatur Alabama
A holiday message from J D Cloud of Decatur Alabama invites citizens to pay polls tax and enjoy true citizenship with children on Christmas morning wishing a Merry Christmas to all.
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J. D. Cloud
Decatur
Ala
Braves Await Santa Claus in Southwest Christmas
In Albuquerque dated December 21 Indians of the southwest prepare for Christmas with baskets of gifts from traders, homesteaders, and missionaries. The piece notes skepticism about Santa, honors traditional dances, and describes Isleta’s two hour pagan winter rites and church mass.
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Albuquerque
N. M
Southwest
Redskins
Isleta
Uncle Bob Sends Silver Dollars by Mail Enclosed in Envelopes
In St Paul Minnesota on December 21 7) Uncle Bob mailed two unwrapped silver dollars to Fort Worth Texas with a stamp on one side and an address on the other and only signed Uncle Bob Postmaster Van Dyke ordered the coins sealed for transit but told Fort Worth officials to deliver them in their original form.
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ST. Paul
Minn
Bob
Sam
Fort Worth
Tex
Uncle Bob
A. A. van Dyke
Three in Court on Drunkenness Charges in City Court
Three defendants appeared in city police court facing drunkenness charges. The record notes no other charges were brought against them.
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Crow Hardware Co
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