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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1955
Page
9
Bargains at Allied Sales list booths tables counters steam tables scales radios starting at $10 and up. Electric items and other hardware are featured with various discount prices.
Advertises specials on Emerson television sets and a Phono Cabinet Radio with prices starting at 149.95. Mentions Reneeeweee eesewne ineligible or unclear context.
In Jacksonville Florida the YMCA launched an eight week night school with three men and 21 women signing up. The class covers photography ball casting square dancing ballroom dancing and bridge.
Advertisement teaser for a sole shop promotion promising savings at Shop Hunter's with a focus on price discounts and bargain offers.
Dorothy Dix advises the bride about a fiancé who quit a job and marriage plans amid parental disapproval. She suggests waiting six months to a year while the young man proves stability, noting he is still developing and may change with age.
George Washington University's president Cloyd H Marvin is amused by an old Georgia Piedmont road memory featuring a windowless church and a sing song minister delivering a moral sermon. A colt and a humorous exchange at a track window follow with a Greek speaking waiter gag closing the fragment.
A humorous vignette recalls a diner waiter and a punchy line about thanks and dimes. The narrator, Karl Flaster, laments being overlooked as his ticker fails and he vows to keep going with a smile. Dan Bennett and a joke about thinning hair spice the snippets.
A Decatur boy wrestles with life’s meaning asking why we exist to help others. A local teacher contemplates the difference between caution and cowardice as Charles observes life.
A reader notes two young people aged 19 and 20 and offers cautionary advice. The writer urges Sally to be independent, stop waiting for a call, and take a ceramics course while Bill, seen as discreet, may return if he wishes.
Request free leaflet 0 25 by Dorothy Dix. Include stamped self addressed envelope and send to her care of this newspaper.
Southern Bell Telephone Company distributes the 1955 Decatur directory with about 9 200 copies to subscribers and adds roughly 600 new numbers incl Mooresville listings. Avery Taylor urges discarding the old book and looking up numbers first to avoid wrong calls and save time.
A compact excerpt contrasts courage and fear with a quip about youth and caution. It also observes that lounging robes are typically allotted to men without time to lounge.
The Housing Authority of the City of Hartselle Alabama invites sealed proposals for 456000.00 Temporary Notes Third Series to finance low rent housing. Proposals due January 10 1956 at 12 noon CST. notes dated February 7 1956 payable February 8 1957 with fixed interest.
Robert Fulton launches regular service for the steamboat Clermont in 1807 marking a key step in steam navigation. The debut signals growing use of powered boat travel on American rivers.
A mixed page item listing a crossword with clues and a cryptoquote puzzle. It includes sample entries such as competent, stop, on the ocean, affirmative votes, Iranian coin, past whiskers, Italian river, man’s nickname, apportion, undeveloped flowers, man’s name, toward the lee, exposes to sun’s rays, prickly fruit, old, outlet of guilt, cut off tops, eats away, taut, and a macro explanation of solving the cryptoquote.
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