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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1929
Page
9
The Decatur Daily Want columns advertise a luxury home design with English style lines and variegated materials. It notes stone stucco half timber brick accents, a slate roof and a porch that may be left open or enclosed. The plan supports various sites with living room or dining room facing a garden, cross ventilation, bay windows, and a basement kitchen stair access. Estimated cost ranges from 14 000 to 16 000 in large cities.
Mr and Mrs H G Rickerson and son Henry have returned to Haleyville after spending Christmas with relatives here.
A report by Dr E G Lockhart of Drake University finds twelfth grade marks the onset of flaming youth with a trend labeled deviation. Boys outpace girls in rebellion while overall attitudes toward law improve with intelligence but high schoolers deviate from adult norms. The study analyzed 3500 Iowa students and 50 top lawyers. Christmas travelers head to Des Moines for the AAAS annual meeting spanning through January 2.
President Hoover urged economic cooperation to expand federal aid for highways. The plan aims to raise annual federal appropriations beyond 75 million dollars to speed up road construction, with governors pledging state support and AAA predicting over 2.5 billion dollars in 1930 spending and 625000 jobs if funds rise. A rural post roads bill of 250 million dollars was introduced by Rep Robison.
Representatives of the aerial circus praised Leslie Field as a potential airport during a three day visit starting December 30. They said removing a house on a land section would create one of the best airports in the South for easy accessibility.
The Decatur city council approved selling fireworks within city limits this season, drawing broad resident approval. Residents noted little change in how fireworks were discharged compared with previous years.
Stockton resident, a well known figure in Lawrence County, was a visitor to Decatur today.
Investment in Decatur real estate described as promising with substantial business outlook for the new year. Finances expected to yield dividends over coming years.
Santa Claus appears to have delivered hundreds of roller skates to Decatur children as many boys and girls take to the streets for a festive yet dangerous pastime of skating during Christmas time.
A Christmas dance, part of a holiday series, will be held Monday evening at the Junior Chamber of Commerce quarters on Second Avenue. A large crowd is expected to attend this festive event and enjoy the season.
A number of watch parties are being planned for Tuesday evening with likely special services at various churches here on Tuesday or Wednesday where New Year programs will be rendered.
In Huntsville a mother Mrs Praiik Mar cum and her infant died from exposure after four days in snow bound woods. The two younger sisters, including a 1 year old, survived by sheltering in a hollow log until authorities recovered the bodies. The family had left Huntsville December 17 to reach their mountain home and faced a blizzard cutting communications and burying them in the snow. The father followed the daughters footprints to the cabin as physicians said the girls would recover from exposure.
A Ku Klux Klan proclamation denounces recent state actions and vows to fight, issued by high authority to Klan members in a tense period of backlash and factional strife.
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