Sale of Annual Is Started Here
The high school annual sale began last week as staff urged students to bring money. Senior high heard Rev. W Glass speak on honesty at chapel. A movie Cavalcade Of Our Presidents was shown and School Day pictures were taken. PTA meeting had strong turnout with Mrs. John Chenault discussing Socialized Medicine. Sympathies go to Mrs. W T Jordan on the loss of her brother.
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Harriet Higdon
Chapel
W. Glass
Presrterian Church
PTA
John Chenault
W. T. Jordan
Offbeat Clips and Wry Snippets From A Busy Page
A collage of short fragments appears with shifting topics from aging vanity to cemetery humor. A stray tale in StratfordOntario and a joke about a Chinaman at a grave mix with a comment on education and a golf partner joke. The note closes with a reference to a $35000 expenditure to dress a “bud.”
Alabama Telephone Growth Sets Postwar Record in 1949
Southern Bell added 36 000 telephones in Alabama in 1949 bringing total in service to over 355 000. Over four years since 1946 the company gained 166 000 telephones, an 86 percent increase, far surpassing prewar growth. Rural lines expanded with 10 000 new rural phones. total farm lines reached 54 000 by end of 1949. Calls handled daily rose to 2 870 000, the highest in state history.
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Alabama
New South
Theouthern Bell Telephone Company
Southern Bell
S. H. Youngblood
Youngblood
Philadelphia Businessman Promotes Four Line Success Formula
A Philadelphia business owner shares a concise success rule: early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise. The four lines outline a simple ethic aimed at driving effort and visibility in commerce.
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Philadelphia
Mai
Flag at White House lowered during reconstruction
The flag over the White House has been taken down as reconstruction begins and will not be raised again until completion. Old Glory still flies over Blair House where the President currently resides.
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Washington
White House
Blair’ House
Quarterly WMU Meeting to Be Held Jan 18
The WMU-Muscle Shoals Association holds a meeting at a Baptist church on January 18 with the theme Look at the Home and. The public was told of a date change from Tuesday to Wednesday and Mrs. W. E. Gantrey urged attendance to prevent theft of factory metal for clothing.
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WMU
Muscle Shoals
Lead in stockings fuels East Berlin protest
East Berlin housewife Guste Zoerner told the communist Neues Deutschland she could not buy stockings without delivering non ferrous metals, a trade she called unjust in a shortage driven by the Soviet economy. Textile coupons and money proved useless in her bid to obtain stockings.
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Berlin
Guste Zoerner
East Berlin
Neues Deutschland
Honeymoon Mixup Involving Marriage and Mother-In-Law
A Leh wieburg man ends 24 years of marriage to wed his mother in law, a Hanover press report notes. The Pribilof Islands host about 3 000 000 Alaska fur seals during summer breeding season.
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Hanover
Lehwieburg
Here
Hannoverische Presse
Pribilof Islands
Alaska
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Janine
Stratford. Ont
Can
Beacon-Herald
Dr.es
AAA
Erate Pane Rt AY
Ferry Street
Thames
Thames Estuary
London
Divina
Scotland Yard
Snorgeegle
Gene Ahern
New York
United States
Mike
Chick
Edee
Don’s Floor
St. E
Don Williams
Lespedeza Hay
Tennessee Valley Flight Service
Pryor Field
O. P. Stinson
O. D
2Nd Ave
Night Stand
Ileae
Hagerty Drug Walgreen Agency
Johnston St
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