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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1933
Page
3
Araminta plans a secret telegram to meet Jan amid family dinner and tennis games. She and Jan discuss a future apart from propriety as a moonlit beach walk reveals their resolve and a possible beginning of their story. The scene ends with an interrupted moment and a cliffhanger.
Westminster church shifts its Ten Commandments sermons from vesper to 11 am this Sunday announced by Rev E N Hart. The vesper hour moves from five to four o'clock with Dr Pettingill delivering his final Bible lectures on The Second Coming of Christ. Dr Pettingill appears at 11 am Sunday First Baptist and at 7 pm Willoughby Presbyterian.
A fragment reflecting on truth found while examining many things attributed to Quin tilian. It suggests insight can appear where least expected.
The divorce case involving Ann Harding fades after her sister notes the husband drifting into a submerged role with the film star. Their four year old daughter lives with the mother at the Harding Estate in Hollywood.
Market report records Decatur store prices paid to farmers for produce meat and poultry delivered to Decatur. Listings include native dressed veal and beef, hogs, country sausage, and poultry such as hens fryers turkeys geese and ducks with per pound or per dozen figures and ranges.
Receipts in carrots and other items listed with carload hay and grain prices. Hay U S No 112.00 and No 2 9.50 to 10.00. Timothy and alfalfa varied, corn and oats steady. Cotton seed priced at 9 per ton. Poultry and eggs mixed with small hens at 8 cents and large at 9. No 1 white eggs 15. Market notes: eggs up 1-2 cents, other poultry unchanged. Alabama shipping quotations unchanged.
Friday ended our second month's work with much accomplished and progress despite weather illness and term uncertainty. Perfect attendance honored for First Grade Simmons Third Grade Jones Bettie Maé Holmes Fourth Grade Dalton Holmes Bynum Wilcutt Dorothy Moody Katharine Simmons Sixth Grade Jackson Jones. Visitors included W. D. Hardin and Mr and Mrs Alton Moody among others.
The Levant area reports busy week with teachers and pupils returning after a long break. Attendance is improving though some students have not yet started. The P T A will resume activities Wednesday as the term progresses. The School Garden club plans shrubbery cuttings around the building and the fourth grade Nature Club makes bird booklets. A field trip is planned for next week to collect data.
Bea trice Kirk, 19, daughter of Walter Kirk a soap magnate, petitions bankruptcy in Chicago claiming assets of only 98 dollars and one horse after a saddle horse dispute with Herman Goldberg. Goldberg says she rode the horse for months yet refused payment, while Kirk notes 3,000 dollars in jewelry and memory gaps as the case continues to February 2.
The piece critiques political rhetoric and moral choices around the Muscle Shoals project. It contrasts Pilate’s denial of truth with calls to act on realities in North Alabama and questions of government theory versus practical progress led by national figures and private citizens. The text emphasizes faith guiding public policy and the tension between present duties and future gains.
Continuation of reflections on In the Presence of the Truth. Pilate asks What Is Truth? while a boy seeks truth and acts on it, starting a business he believes to be true. The piece favors faith over certainty and notes without faith it is impossible to Please God. The exact Bible reference is uncertain but not crucial.
Announcement today states Rev. J. F. P. Stuckey former pastor will preach at Sixteenth Avenue Baptist Church on Sunday January 31.
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