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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1929
Page
4
A local pastor urges Decatur residents to commit to a productive year inviting every citizen to join the effort. The Daily quotes a verse from William Lyle urging people to lay aside old grudges and misdeeds by Christmas. The message emphasizes kindness to oneself and finishing the year with closure.
Figures quoted by the Birmingham Age-Herald show that the Georgia Alabama game produced over half of Legion Stadium’s season gross, $50,681 of $99,871 from fourteen college football games. The stadium also hosted many smaller high school events, justifying its civic role and suggesting stronger finances with more major games next season.
Athens enacts an ordinance fining any person on a street or sidewalk $25 for requesting a ride. The measure aims to curb hitch-hiking but may push seekers to the city limits or to rely on passive gestures near motorists. The practice, seen around college breaks, draws warnings after several tragedies.
The Daily thanks readers and local businesses for holiday greetings printed on Christmas Eve. The 1929 edition marks the first two color press run and the staff expresses appreciation for the community support and reception of the improved edition.
The Limestone Democrat lauds Limestone County as highly progressive in Alabama, detailing its support for Auburn extension service, health unit, and farm bureau work. It notes county taxes on farm lands and cites the Bee Line highway past the state experiment farm as a justification for paving eight miles south of Athens.
A wave of newspaper commentary rails at the Alabama Democratic Executive Committee for barring candidates who backed the Republican ticket last November from running in August. Local papers vary, with LaFayette Sun decrying cowardly conduct, Colbert County Reporter hoping harmony prevails, Alexander City Outlook supporting duty, and Jackson County Sentinel defending the purge while inviting former Democrats to return.
Dr. Louise Stanley, chief of the USDA bureau of home economics, says daily home life matters drive the bureau two main ways. The other key function coordinates research and distribution of information to improve use of agricultural products in foods and clothing. The foods and nutrition division is nearing a vitamin content summary for vegetables and vitamin research continues.
Miss Ethel Perrin of New York has completed a study of health work in Chambers county Alabama the state first to employ a county supervisor of health and physical education. She was joined by Dr J R Sharman Prof J S Lambert and Miss Jessie Garrison and Miss Minnie Sellers. Schools visited included Abanda Penton Milltown Five Points La Fayette Starkie Lanet Shawmut and Fairfax.
The bulk of the snow from earlier in the week has melted under warm sunshine today. Another sunny day is expected to finish clearing ice from streets and sidewalks.
Merchants will conduct inventory from now until year end to determine how well 1929 treated them. The coming stock takes are expected to show that the year proved favorable for a majority of city businesses.
The weather bureau reports a high of 43 degrees and a low of 28 for the 24 hour period ending at seven this morning. The report notes cooler conditions with a late morning rise in temperature.
The Tennessee river level was reported falling this morning with a gauge reading of 7.4 feet.
James Dych came back to Columbia this morning following a Christmas visit with friends in the area.
Mrs. Virginia Chadwell departed this morning for her home in Columbia Tennessee after a brief visit with relatives in town.
Messrs. Taylor Rayburn and Allen Fraser returned last night from Columbia after spending the Christmas holidays with relatives in Columbia.
Lucille Patterson visits New York City for the holidays as Judge A. G. Patterson and wife host. Albany Station and Decatur Post Office records show 92 000 mat pieces handled. no arrest on Christmas Day per Sheriff B E Davis. Decatur begins 1929 with strong holiday trade and focus on expanding a 25 mile trade area.
Hollywood welcomes Arthur Hammerstein Rudolph Frim and Corinne Griffith Oscar Hammerstein II Jerome Kern Otto Harbach to produce and write screen musicals for Joseph Schenck. The group aims to create original film tunes as demand rises for talkie rights despite high prices.
Old Stuff notes that film musical scores lag behind stage works and few original screen musicals exist beyond titles like The Love Parade La Marseillaise Married in Hollywood The Rogue Song Dixiana and a few others. Many early talkie operettas are adaptations from stage hits.
Stars note that screen versions still use former stage names like Song of the Flame and Rio Rita while Hollywood talks of original talkies with new music. The piece urges investing in Decatur real estate with expected future dividends.
Advice emphasizes making your home presentable to rival the neighbor’s standards and achieving improvements through diligence. A focus on neatness and effort is urged to produce favorable outcomes and personal accomplishment.
In Vienna Georgia the junior U S senator Walter F George teaches a Baptist church Sunday school class when home from Washington. George is noted for his chivalry in succeeding Mrs Rebecca Felton as the first woman senator and for his quiet studious nature and Southern speaking voice. Decatur area meanwhile hosts twenty three industries at work.
In New York the swankiest drug store on Park Avenue outfits clerks in formal evening clothes after 6 pm. In the Bronx a junior high aims for a modernistic design drawing on Ancient Pueblo inspiration with setbacks, colored enamel tiles, and flat wall surfaces like new skyscrapers.
Ornamental Citrus Taitensis, two foot tall shrubs yielding about a dozen small oranges, have become a vogue in New Jersey and Long Island hothouses. Origin traces unclear with Tahiti or China links, but the plant now decorates homes during holidays and lasts about a month before fruit hardens and becomes inedible.
A native of Beekman place in the east Fifties, Henry Beekman, descendant of Gov. Gerardus Beekman, shifted from law and real estate to art. He now paints for children, creating whimsical works like Humpty Dumpty and Noahs Ark to teach art appreciation to the offspring of wealthy patrons. He previously kept losing legal papers and sketched on rental lists before turning to painting eighteen years ago.
The piece envisions ongoing development and expansion in Decatur and the Tennessee Valley region. It highlights planned projects, infrastructure improvements, and economic growth anticipated to shape the area’s future trajectory.
A collage of humorous vignettes on post holiday woes. Toys wrecked during rush gifts, a flapper’s remark on stockings, a night after Christmas tale with a doctor’s visit and remedies, social jests about gifts and manners, and a punchy closing line about fashion and men.
Three terms defined: Escutcheon a shield shaped surface on a vessel showing its name. Decemvirate a ten man body in authority or its term. Escarpment a cliff or steep artificial slope around a fortress.
The blind man explains he was healed by Jesus and urges attributions to God. The crowd questions the miracle, claiming they follow Moses, while the healed man challenges their insistence to hear again, provoking further dispute.
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