Christmas Party At Cantwell Hall With Music And Readings
Decorations of wreaths holly and bells adorned Cantwell Hall for a Christmas party. Dinner for members and guests followed by a musical program featuring Hennesey McGehee Curry and Baker. Readings included The Christmas Story by Margaret Chenault and poetry from Edna St Vincent Millay. A Christmas dance was planned at Al Jones home on Walnut Street.
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Hennes
Say
Mre—Curry
Raymond Baker
Miss McGehee
Nell Beachwee
Chenault
Luke
Miss Dix
Edna St. Vincent Millay
al Jones
Mrs
A.A. Jones
Walnut Street
Christmas Guests and Illnesses Mentioned in Local Notes
Local personals list Christmas visiting plans among families in Birmingham Cullman Gadsden and Athens. Names include Marion Robertson W R Griffin Leon Jones Bar Kelley Annelie McCulloch Nell Safley Joe Davis and Dr Robert Goodall. influenza illness noted for several individuals.
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Marion Robertson
Herman Kyle
Birmingham
W. R. Griffin
Cullman
J. H. Alexander
Mistletoe Beliefs and the Baldur Legend in Christmas Lore
The piece recalls kissing under the mistletoe with berry counting for blessings and warns against dropping the plant. It recounts Balder’s myth and Frigg’s vow, noting mistletoe’s unlikely church role and the belief that a maiden kissed under it may marry within the year.
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Balder
Friga
Baldér
65th Anniversary Tends and Spinsters Dance Mention
Mrs. Hugh Curry attends the Spinsters Dance for their 65th anniversary. She is in Louisville Kentucky spending Christmastide with her parents. Mr. Curry plans to join her on Sunday.
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Hugh Curry
Louisville
Mr. Curry
Hartselle Couple Celebrates 65 Years of Marriage
Mr and Mrs Charlie J Walker longtime Hartselle residents marked their 65th wedding anniversary. Married in Moulton in 1874 the couple has four children ten grandchildren and twenty great grandchildren He was born October 7 1856 in Six Mile Bibb County and she November 16 1857 in Lawrence County Both long active in fraternal orders with Mr Walker a Mason for 49 years.
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Charlie J. Walker
Hartselle
Lawrence County
Riggs Bridge Rae
Morgan County
Catur
Walker
City tree lights blaze above Chicago’s Michigan Avenue
A 21 story high Christmas tree of office lights rises along Chicago’s Michigan Avenue in the Palmolive building. The Lindbergh aerial beacon atop the skyscraper crowns the display with a festive glow.
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Chicago
Michigan Boulevard
Christmas Masses at St Ann's Church
The Feast of Christmas will be celebrated at St Ann's Catholic Church with High Mass on tomorrow at midnight and morning Masses at 8 and 9 o'clock on Christmas Day. Confessions weekends 4:30–6:00 p.m. and 7:30–9:30 p.m. A Bethlehem cave scene crib is at the entrance on Fourth Avenue and Johnston Street and will be lit at night for public visitation.
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St. Ann's Catholic Church
Cave of Bethlehem
Christ
Fourth Avenue
Johnston St
Abele Resigns in Alabama Health Department Shakeup
C A Abele resigns as director of inspection in the State Health Department to take a new post as director of the department. He will start in January with the exact title still to be announced.
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Montgomery
Ala
C. A. Abele
State Health Department
Longtime Grand Tiler Celebrated in Hartselle
The 44 year Grand Lodge veteran and Masonic officer known for guiding many candidates was honored at a wedding anniversary reception hosted by the Walker family on Barclay Street. Eastern Star and Masonic Lodge members attended. Estimated three thousand Ceremonies raised cited by Mr Walker. The honorees include a rare great grandfather conferring a degree on a great grandson.
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Grand Lodge
Walker
Order
The
Eastern Star
Masonic Lodge
Hartselle
Weather superstitions for Christmas Day
A collection of old Christmas weather beliefs links sun on Christmas to a good next year crop and various outcomes. It warns that thunderstorms or wind may presage snow, fruit, or crop results, and notes a green Christmas portends trouble later and a warm Christmas cools Easter.
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Christmas Meadows
NLRB Orders Alabama Power to Dismiss Independent Union
The National Labor Relations Board ordered Alabama Power Company of Birmingham to stop recognizing the Alabama Power Employees, Inc. as the collective bargaining representative. The company must disestablish the union and reimburse employees for dues deducted from wages.
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Washington
National Labor Relations Board
Alabama Power Company
Birmingham
Ala
Independent
Union of Alabama Power Employees, Inc
Power Company
Sull ivan appointed to treasury post hints Gaston promotion
Washington December 23 John L Sullivan a 40 year old Manchester New Hampshire lawyer was named assistant secretary of the treasury The move increases the likelihood that Herbert E Gaston will be elevated to undersecretary of the treasury and marks a major shift in the department's leadership.
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Washington
John L. Sullivan
Manchester, N. H
the Treasury
Herbert E. Gaston
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Trinity
Dix
Mary Vernon DIX
Nell Beach
Toases
Fleischer
Leon Jones
Gadsden
Ed Berry
Bar Kelley
Birminghami
A.H. Kelley
Annelie McCulloch
Nell Safley
Joe Davis
Los Angeles
California
Billy McNeill
Mtes
Louis Daves
Athens College
Hartwell Davis
Tampa, Fla
Robert Goodall
Don Goodall
Buttrey’s
Gercia Mayme
Fay Velma
Evelyn
Beauty Shop
Moulton
Abele
Sullivan
Waletide
White
Jewelry Shop
Vista
Sim Parton
Jesse
James
Technicolor
Tyrone Power
Henry Oo
Nancy Kelly
Randolph Scott
Dick Tracy
Ai Joy
Hartselle, Ala
Bette Davis
Miriam Hopkins
George Brent
Leo Carrillo
Marjorie Weaver
Bob Hope
Paulette Goddard
Red River Range
Lee Tracy
Red Barry
Capitol Theatre
LAST
Tom Tyler
Europe
Allan Lane
Linda Hayes
Robert Barrat
Sage OF
van Buren
America
King OF
Swing
Donald Duck
Ety
Maureen O'Hara
Leslie Banks
Emlyn Williams
Robert Newton
Daphne du Maurier
Priscilla Lane
Humphrey Bogart
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