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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1941
Page
13
A long Christmas letter page from Decatur area children asking Santa for toys, dolls, skates, bicycles, trains, guns, toy machines, and fruit. Names include Ray Turner, Dorothy Hardiman, Imogene Dungy, Evelyn Maples, Mattie Kirby, Barrie Lee, and many others, with addresses and school mentions. The tone mirrors an era seasonal appeal from local youngsters hoping for gifts.
The Bible remains a top selling work and a frequent target of translation and revision. In 1940 China sold 5,267,529 copies of Bible related texts, while worldwide sales last year reached about 25 million. Catholic revisions of the New Testament appear, with ongoing Old Testament work based on the Vulgate. A Vatican sphere notes direct Greek-based translation by Rector Francia Aloysius Spencer four years ago. A vernacular translation effort, drawing from Arabic, is also underway.
The piece surveys various Bible translations by George M. Laman and others noting altered word pictures such as the eye of the needle passage. A Greensboro Alabama armory fire Tuesday caused an estimated $500 damage due to a defective flu, officials said.
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