Dixon selects conservative group for legislative leadership
New Alabama chief executive Frank M. Dixon outlines a conservative slate for the 1930s legislature. Key figures include Joseph Nell Poole as president pro tem and Oliver Ernest Young as floor leader. Merrill Carmichael and Hugh P. Merrill are named for high offices, with McGowin and Young to steer administration bills.
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Gover
Frank M. Dixon
Kag
Hugh PD
Merrill
An-niston
Eens Carmichael
Leutenant
Carmick-ge
Ooe Conan
McGown
Hapman Timber
Dixon
McGowin
Miller
Bibbles
University of Alabama
Joseph Nell
Joe)Poole
Butler Springs
Senate
Rules
House Rules Committee
Oliver Ernest Young
Vernon
Fayette
Lamar
Walker
MccGowin
Alabama
Young
Poole
Auburn
Black Belt
Butler County
House
Carmichael
Farm Prices Start 1939 Higher Than Late 1938
Chicago price analysis shows farm prices averaging about 23 percent above the 1938 slump bottom. Gains come despite grain surpluses, larger livestock supplies, and heavy butter stocks, with increases developing over recent months.
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Chicago
Legion to Meet at Montgomery Midwinter Conference
American Legion department headquarters announced major program arrangements for the annual midwinter conferences in Montgomery with an expected attendance of about 1000 Legionnaires and auxiliary members. The event opens Sunday, January 15, in Montgomery.
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Montgomery
Ala
The
American Legion
Office R Cat Rale Fee In Comic Panel Montage
A collage of cartoon captions and jokes voices spar about daily life and work. Characters joke about love loyalty health shaving mishaps and the luck of breaks while cartoonish vignettes poke fun at ambition and social norms.
Oyster shells found deep in Texas oil fields prompt exploration
Fragmentary OCR notes mention shells discovered 4,000 feet underground in Texas oil fields. The text shifts to aphorisms on crime, money, and social roles, with no clear news event or names to anchor a fuller summary.
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Texas
Community Notes From Morgan County Cedar Creek Area
Local residents gather for visits and family time across Hartselle Decatur and surrounding spots. Notable events include accidents, hospital visits, moves, and social visits among Payne Moore Halbrooks Foreman and other families. CCC camp member James Storie returns from Mississippi. travel to Pine Bluff Arkansas for a relative. community preaching planned.
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Bernie Payne
Hartselle
Clarence Moore
W. H. Walker
Herman Burns
West Hartselle Pike
W. O. Simmons
Decatur
Buster Stroup
Margorie Stroup
Butler Halbrooks
Courtner Place
Gomer “Hardin
Frank Arnold
Falkville Pike
Jim Halbrooks
New Center
John Sam
Gomer Hardin
Decatur Hospital
Conner Meadows
Lorene
Pine Bluff
Arkansas
John Moore
John Mooney
New Jersey
Wilma Mooney
Jasper
Holmes
James Storie
CCC
Pots
Mississippi
T. S. Storie
R. D. Foote
Homer
McKinley Walker
Hubert Mardis
Birmingham
Forney Payne
Floyd Howell
Grant Segars
Mattié Halbrooks
Olie Holmes
Haley Garrison
Alkville
Elisha and the danger signals on life’s highway
A sermon reflecting on Elisha’s prayers and God revealing enemy plans. It warns readers to heed moral danger signals, avoid blurred vision from vice, and not rely on God’s goodness without repentance. It urges attention to life’s pathways for the sake of others and God.
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Hell
Death row sex slayer faces the death sentence
In Canon City Colorado Joe Arridy a six year old mentally impaired man faces execution for the slaying of Dorothy Drain. His attorneys plead for a commutation from Governor Teller Ammons as other condemned inmates taunt him with jokes about his train. Arridy maintains he will not die and has had his execution delayed nine times.
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Canon City
Colo
Joe Arridy
Teller Ammons
Gail L. Ireland
Ireland
Ammons
Angelo Agnes
Arridy
Joe
Agnes
Norman
Wharton
Springs
Ling
Grim Jest
Warden Best
Frank Aguilar
Dorothy Drain
Pueblo
Sunday Service and Sunday School Announced
Sunday at 11:00 o'clock the pastor Rev T J Atkins leads a service with Sunday school at ten o'clock.
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T. J. Atkins
Christmas presents theft shake in Los Angeles
Detective Capt. J R Edwards asked about 25 residents including several film figures to surrender manhole covers stolen as Christmas gifts. Pranksters lifted covers wrapped them in transparent paper and delivered them as Yule gifts.
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Los Angeles
J. R. Edwards
Stepson Held in Fatal Beating of Portland Financier
George Phillips, 38, was arrested in Los Angeles on suspicion of murder in the beating death of his stepfather James Peters, 57, a Portland financier visiting with family. Peters died from injuries after a reported attack late Tuesday. Phillips claimed a stranger attacked him.
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Los Angeles
George Phillips
James Peters
Portland
Ore
Peters
Phillips
West Morgan County Social News Highlights
Quenten Looney of Fort McClellan guests his parents near Penns for a New Year party with friends. Annie Laura Stovall visits Mrs. Crowe and Mrs. Stovall. Morris Looney from South Carolina plans to return home. Irene Dutton visits Eve lyn Morris. Lorene Penn stays with Annie Laura Stovall. Gertis Hogan announces birth of a daughter. Lée Nell Looney visiting Speake community. Dorothy visits Christine Crowe.
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Quenten Looney
Fort McClellan
Lord Looney
Penn's
Annie Laura Stovall
Dana Crowe
Nannie Stovall
Jack Jarnett
Dan Dutton
Morris Looney
South Carolina
Irene Dutton
Evelyn Morris
Lorene Penn
Gertis Hogan
Lée Nell Looney
Speake
Appointment of Miss Barclay as associate in health bureau
Miss Anna Pearl Barclay was named associate in charge of health bureau work by Dr J N Baker state health officer The appointment announced today highlights Barclay’s role in 3 giene and nursing care within the bureau.
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Montgomery
Ala
Anna Pearl Barclay
Cho Ursi Health Can
J. N. Baker
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