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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1939
Page
6
Simple ideas for inexpensive festive table styling include a wooden bowl with shining grapes, a wreath, tall candles, and doilies. White themes use a miniature tree and white tapers with snow accents. floral touches like chrysanthemums and red roses enhance the display. Avoid clutter to keep conversation visible across the table.
New York Toy laboratory led by Miss Gillian Rifkin observes children at schools and playgrounds to rate toys by durability, age suitability, and potential for imaginative play. The process highlights blocks and toy cars as top choices while noting dramatic pretend play and energy release in children.
Holiday cookies and cakes using honey need about two weeks to ripen. Store in covered jars in a cool place to improve with age. Apples stuffed with mincemeat and baked make a winter dessert with lemon sauce. Wash, peel and core apples and stuff an inch from the top, bake as usual. For popovers, heat and grease pans well to ensure they pop over when touched with cold water.
Puritan England frowned on Christmas celebrations and churchmen opposed revelry. Early New England settlers carried sermons and observances, while medieval and Shakespearean periods valued feasting and pageantry. Parliament in 1644 prohibited festivities and declared the day a fast.
Mrs. I. N. Cowan was returned home from Payetteville Tennessee where she visited her sister who was ill.
Practical gift tips guide holiday shoppers on choosing items for family and friends. It emphasizes tailoring presents to individual tastes, balancing practicality with indulgence, and using sales guidance to avoid overthinking. It covers suggestions for mother father sister brother and sweetheart with examples like jewelry books outdoor gear and desk sets.
Chambers Lumber Company of Athens has been awarded a contract to build a one story brick and hollow tile building on the college campus to house the new hosiery mill enabling Athens College students to work their way through college. The building will be the first part of a planned campus expansion.
A workspace measures 119 by 60 feet and includes a furnace. The total cost is listed as 11000 dollars. Other details are not provided in the fragment.
Athens Alabama December 23 Special work has resumed on the Ath ens High school football stadium a WPA project when finished the stadium will be 270 feet long and seat 1500. The football field will have 40 floodlights each 1500 candle power ensuring unusually well lighted field for night games.
Athens Alabama December 28 Special M A Phillips a well known farmer of the Shoalford community will net country hams and say eight of this winter During the week he has killed 16 hogs the group weighing 7860 pounds approximately four tons The first six killed averaged 610 pounds each.
South Africa bans toy weapons amid rising youth violence. Legislation bars toy pistols revolvers water pistols and percussion cap pistols. The move covers soldiers tanks and firearms like items to curb imitation violence.
Mr and Mrs Price Waddell along with Nancy Ann and Mrs Sue Elkins of Columbus Ga arrive Saturday to spend the holidays here. The party plans to stay for the festive period with local friends and relatives.
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