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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1955
Page
11
Classified for sale a reconditioned upright plane priced from 75 dollars and up. Cash or easy terms. Phone contact offered. Public notice indicates availability by date December 13th.
Christmas sale listing with portable sewing machines at 129.00 and 69.50, plus lamps cedar chests rockers clothes hampers vacuum cleaners wagons tricycles child furniture to buy now pay next year on easy terms. FOR SALE Duncan Phyfe sofa good condition and three quarter roll away bed with Simmons inner spring mattress. Call 701 W after 6 pm.
First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Decatur calls its regular annual meeting for Members and Shareholders at 2 PM on Wednesday January 18 1956 in the office at 113 Second Avenue SE Decatur Alabama. Election of a Board of Directors and other business will be conducted. Dated Dec 23 1955. Alvis G Briscoe EVP Attest Leodonia Kulimen Sec Treas Dec 23-30 Jan 6.
Sealed proposals are invited by the Housing Authority of the City of Hartselle Alabama for the purchase of 56000.00 in Temporary Notes Third Series dated February 7 1956 payable February 8 1957 bearing interest at rate fixed in accepted proposals. Proposals due at 12 noon CST on 10 1956 at 139 West Main Street Hartselle. Copies of proposal forms and note information available from the Local Authority.
The 1955 notice adopts optometrist license fees with two brackets: under 5000 in receipts pays 50 dollars, 5000 or more pays 100 dollars. City Clerk Joe Pettey and Mayor H R Summer approved December 20th in the year.
The piece traces Santa Claus to Russian and Arctic peoples including the Lapps and Samoyeds, noting reindeer culture and northern roots. It credits American cartoonist Thomas Nast with shaping the modern red suited Santa in Harper's Weekly around 1880 and mentions his creation of political symbols.
The passage views Santa Claus as the embodiment of neighborly love and American sentiment, uniting all ages in Christmas spirit. It traces Santa to St Nicholas, a fourth century bishop, and notes the spread of the figure from early English and Dutch settlements to broader cultural adoption.
A lighthearted quip notes that Christmas prompts wives to boost husbands with praise and credit. The joke frames the holiday as a season of exaggerated generosity within marriages.
A fragmentary line reads Peace on earth came true again exceeding heaven's wish for men. The text includes unclear names and a signature Dor othy Thompson with odd wording and errors.
Eddie the forester travels home for Christmas and is asked to trim the tree. Instead of hanging ornaments he uses a hatchet and saw to cut the tree, doing the job with notable gusto.
The poem reflects on Christmas, politics, and world affairs with humor about Santa contracts, Salk vaccine, and the 1950s cold war mood. It references Eisenhower, Bulganin, Eden, Faure, Geneva talks, Dixon and Yates, and party hopes for 1960. The piece moves from seasonal cheer to political doubt and party strategy.
A pair of holiday letters from Decatur Alabama children request gifts for Christmas. Debbie Lee asks for a wagon tricycle doll a dish set fruit nuts and candy for family Roma Dean Opal and her parents. Vickie Thornton asks for a record player records toy typewriter a doll a brother Johnny a truck ball blocks and fruit nuts candy for friends.
Trinity Senior Girls 4-H Club met at the school with Lennie Bolton presiding. Janice Brown led pledges, Ann Battles read minutes, and Mary Gore county 4-H leader gave a demonstration on Good Grooming using slides.
Dorothy Dix counsels a retired man and his wife, once happy in a small home, to reevaluate their strained marriage after his selfish move to a Muriel Nissen climate. She urges sincere effort to restore happiness and offers a free leaflet D-21, A Happy Marriage, with stamped self addressed envelope.
The completion of the Mackinac Straits Bridge in 1957 will include a suspension span rated as the longest in the world, stretching between Michigan's upper and lower peninsulas.
A cryptic crossword style list presents several numbered across clues and a down clue. Entries include unit of weight in India and a small state hint, plus a misprint for the word devourer and a disorder clue.
Readers tackle cryptic crossword clues for 2 3 4 letter words and learn the substitution cipher method in this day’s Cryptoquote. The puzzle explains how a simple letter map transforms LONGFELLOW into AXYCLBAAXR and hints at solving strategies.
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