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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1932
Page
4
The Princess theater will host a minstrel frolic with By Gosh Himself, a Barnum Bailey clown, and a 50 child troupe. It runs alongside the screen program on Monday and Tuesday nights, amid preshow social activities and circle meetings at local churches.
An ad promotes B. C. relief for periodical pains and other ailments. It claims a pharmacist made formula blends multiple ingredients to ease cramps, headaches, neuralgia, musculoskeletal pain, fever, and nervous distress in minutes without habit forming drugs. Available in 10¢ and 25¢ packages.
Hollywood Marvel Products Co offers 500 for the best soap name with 250 more if mailed by January 24, 1932. Each contestant may submit one name only and names can be sent on any paper to Studio D-278 1033 WN Sycamore Ave Hollywood California. Duplicate prizes apply in ties and a postcard or scrap of paper is acceptable.
Little Jack Stewart lies ill at his parents home in Cornelian Court. Mrs Hertzler of Athens will visit her father Dr G R Sullivan. Mrs Ann Minor George of Nashville is ill at her parents home. Mr and Mrs Hubert Johnson, recent Cornelian Court guests, left for Huntsville. Mrs Eugene Berry of Ohio visits Atlanta and her sister Mrs John D Wyker. Mrs C K Williams of Sheffield also mentioned.
Anne Adams describes a scalloped yoke and sleeve frock with matching bloomers for girls ages 4 6 8 10 14. Materials range from crepe de chine to percale. pattern 2258 costs 15 cents per pattern or 25 cents with pattern. Letters request size, name, and address to Decatur Daily pattern department, 243 West 18th Street New York City. Luther Burbank notes a majority of world flowers are red.
Marian Marsh, a teen Los Angeles schoolgirl discovered by a studio, rises as lead in Under Eighteen directed by Archie Mayo. The piece outlines her rapid ascent from Trilby in Svengali to roles with Edward G. Robinson and William Powell, plus a cast list including Regis Toomey Anita Page and Warren William. It notes Warner Bros Vitaphone production and promoter Banniza of the Princess. Also mentions social visits to Muscle Shoals and a Morgan County Alabama land sale notice with legal details signed A W Davis.
The Decatur Daily promotes a 300 word handwriting analysis by Lorne A Milne, at 10 cents plus a self addressed envelope. Readers can mail in a coupon on page three to receive a personal analysis and booklet.
The column lists guests visiting cousins in Mississippi and Tennessee, illnesses at home in Kentucky and Tennessee, and a birth in Georgia. Notables include Mrs Lem Jones, Miss Ruth Murphy visiting Decatur and Winchester, Tenn., Miss Ethel Harrison returning from Kentucky and Tennessee travels, Mrs Douglas Keen visiting, E C Payne guest in North Tonawanda, and the birth of Betty Jean Hallmark on January 13 at the home of Wilson family.
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