Five New Cotton Records Mark Unprecedented Crop
Five new cotton records were set this year including total production yield per acre and ginnings to December 13. The crop, projected at 18,746,000 bales, could exceed the 1926 high by 768,626 bales. Indicated yield reached 264.6 pounds per acre, with ginnings totaling 16,811,781 bales through December 13 as per the census.
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Edward Pagnac
Associated Press
New Orleans
Department of Agriculture
Census Bureau
Henry Plauche
New Orleans Cotton Exchange
Sapna
Decatur Taxi and Merchandise License Tax Schedule Adopted
City adopts license taxes for taxi cabs and numerous trades including telegraph services, sheet metal work, watch repair, w arehouse operations and more. It sets per vehicle or per item fees, stock-based charges, penalties, and effective date January 1 1938 with clerk publishing duties and repeals conflicting ordinances.
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Kleemibad Ecee Senieni Nens
Decatur
Alabama
H. O. Troup
R. N. Harris
Local social notes list visitors and family events
Community members from Athens and nearby towns share visits and greetings. Names include Mrs Robt Coxe, Bob Owens, Donna Garner, Jens Battles, Will Brooks, E C Shaw, and others as they spend Tuesdays and weekends with relatives and friends. Two couples welcome newborn daughters born Nov 15.
Convicts to Have Dinner at Alcatraz as Escape Probe Continues
San Francisco authorities plan a special Christmas dinner for about 300 inmates at Alcatraz despite a prison break earlier in the week. Warden James A. Johnston said gifts are forbidden and rules dating to 1934 will stand. Meanwhile officers search for Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe, believed drowned after their escape attempt.
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San Francisco
Santa Claus
Alcatraz Federal Prison
James A. Johnston
Bleak Island
San Francisco Bay
Johnston
Theodore Cole
Ralph Roe
Bcores
Christmas Visit and Local Social Notes in Landersville
Mrs. Mary Cagle of Buffalo Gap Texas visits Florida family to spend Christmas with sister Mrs. J W Young. Mr and Mrs J H Latham report good catches fishing Wilson Lake. Mrs A B Young and Mrs J B Young shopped in Decatur. Mrs M J Carroll and daughters were in Decatur. Mrs W R Jackson of Moulton visited her ill father Thursday night. Mrs P M Finney of Hickory Grove was a business visitor. Miss Mattie F Masterson welfare worker Lawrence County was here on business. Suttons new home is near.
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Robt. Coxe
Athens
Rt. 2
Bob Owens
R. BE. Durham
Jack Richardson
Donna Garner
Irma Marks
Jens Battles
Bill Abernathy
Rt. 3
Milton Marks
Tom Britton
Chas. Elledge
Olen Shaw
Harold Gilbert
Robi. Hamilton
Winford Durham
E. C. Shaw
Edgar Allen
Wesley Shaw
Bob Jones College
F. U. Shaw
Wesley
Winston Marks
Miss Terry
Oliver Gordon
Mary Black
Ripley
Owens
Frank
R. B. Durham
Tom
BE. C. Shaw
Dewey Hudson
Mary Cagle
Buffalo Gap
Texas
Florida
J. W. Young
J. H. Latham
Wilson Lake
A. B. Young
J. B. Young
Decatur
M. J. Carroll
W.R. Jackson
Moulton
P. M. Finney
Hickory Grove
Soe Tank and Son
Caran Montgom
Mattie F. Masterson
Lawrence County
Sutton
Rate hike asked by Western Union and Postal Telegraph
New York December 21 Western Union Telegraph Co and Postal Telegraph Co jointly announced plans to apply to the federal communications commission for a fifteen percent rate increase.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Western Union Telegraph Co
Postal Telegraph Co
Federal Communications Commission
Morgan County Exhibits Highlight Annual Chamber Meeting
With the annual meeting near, the Chamber of Commerce advances preparations. The event will feature agricultural and industrial exhibits from Morgan county showcasing notable local productivity.
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Chamber of Commerce
Morgan County
Hopkins Improves After Operation At Rochester
Harry L. Hopkins relief administrator rests comfortably after an excellent night and begins a two week hospital convalescence following surgery for an obstructed stomach ulcer. Surgeon reports his general condition very good.
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Hopkins
Rochester
Minn
Dee
Harry L. Hopkins
Teruel siege escalates as Spain hurls 20,000 more troops
Franco Spain conflict around Teruel intensifies with 60,000 government troops ordered to seize the provincial capital at all costs. Hand to hand fighting rages within the city as defenders and attackers suffer heavy casualties. Communications are severed and residents flee underground as the siege enters its seventh day.
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Hendaye
Teruel
Giant
Melody Boys Concert At New Tabor School
The Melody Boys Quartet will perform at the new Tabor school five miles east of Hartselle on Thursday December 23 at 7 o clock. The program includes gongs jokes and blackface comedy suitable for the entire family Bethea Stedham said. Searchlights lit battle areas as government attackers and insurgents fought in the streets.
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Melody Boys
New Tabor School
Hartselle
Bethea Stedham
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Senate
Wallace
Jackolyn Ellis
Sister Velda
Joan
Velda Joan
Chicago
Jackolyn
Montour
Theodore Bilis
Dreds
Undertakers
Government of
The
United
Bell
Durham
Manile Gilchriat
Courtland
J. EB. Murphree
Earl Malcolm
Wilson Dam
Lucille Latham
Julian Young
Gadaden
C. C. Steenson
Town Creek
Landersville
Frances C. Anderson
Duluth
Uncle Sam
U. S
Miss Anderson
Westinghouse
Thomas Furniture CO
Corner Bank & Church Sts
Decatur Daily
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