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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1940
Page
4
The article outlines Decatur's July celebration along the Tennessee shores with a patriotic parade and boat races from July 4 to 7. It portrays Decatur as a rising, well built city and a town eager to attract national attention while emphasizing unity and progress amid global tensions.
A brief note argues that fingerprinting is reasonable and not objectionable, reflecting a stance that supports the practice as a routine identification method. The remark appears as a concise opinion on civil procedures and privacy implications.
The article challenges a Chicago headline claiming an 8,000 population gain since 1930 as sharp. It argues the city faces decentralization and that rising births in a few cities do not offset losses, noting many towns will grow while large cities decline as people seek broader freedom and movement.
A reader praises Decatur and nearby counties for promoting farm markets over twenty years and urges continued improvement. The letter from North Carolina asks how Decatur is performing and suggests it could do even better.
A wartime critique argues German losses in France show the cost of total war. It claims Hitler misleads the German people about world domination and urges Britain to strike at German civilians, including bombing Berlin, to force a political reckoning.
Washington reports Hitler plans to push Britain and Russia this year and sketches a new Baltic switchover. Berlin favors a passive stance now with later help, while Sweden’s status remains unsettled. A coffee cartel scheme linked to US purchase looms to bolster Western defenses. Germany leads British air power two to one though Britain’s coast complicates Nazi landings.
Military scouts suggest Hitler’s war plan likely aimed at landing parties at several advantageous British coastal points after extensive bombing. Even if only two or three parties succeeded, the bulk of German fighting power could follow behind them at those points.
A pair of non-Willkie congressmen compared telegrams from back home urging support for the Hoosier nominee. They initially questioned their authenticity but later identified individuals who could not have been influenced by any lobby, confirming the telegrams as genuine.
The sermon speaks of Christ as unchanging in a changing world and urges applying Christian life to daily renewal. It emphasizes Our Lord's promise of Abundant Life and calls churches to adapt faith to a shifting order without rebellion.
The article notes 13 U S deaths in 1939 from Fourth of July celebration, 5 500 injuries, and marks state regulation successes such as Pennsylvania banning fireworks in 1939 yielding no deaths that year. It warns sparklers and cap pistols can cause eye injuries and fires, urging parental vigilance. It also covers tetanus antitoxin effectiveness and includes reader Q A on pellagra and high blood pressure with editor notes on pamphlets offered by Dr. Clendening.
The text invokes Christian unity in economic life and daily home conduct modeled after the Holy Family. It envisions peace amid war and urges embodying Jesus' love to influence a troubled world toward God’s purpose.
A humorous sketch features Trishman at a clock shop debating a cuckoo clock. He complains about the bird’s upkeep and jokes that feeding it would be more trouble than it’s worth, prompting a wry clerk reaction. The piece blends light domestic humor with a nod to patriotism through a narrator’s aside.
A miscellany mixes lines praising a flag with light imagery and a public domain stanza. Interspersed are brief dialogues about relationships and hospital x rays, jokes, and a Decatur man recounting a moving picture. The readable text blends poetry, quips, and casual quotes in a collage-like item.
Humorous quips and schoolroom humor alternate with a doctor joke and Father Son dialogue about words. The piece features a minister and son debating meanings while a doctor hurries for a kit and a daughter misreads a call as relief. Lyrical wit and light domestic scenes drive a playful slice of life.
A fragmentary column mixes showbiz gibes and wartime humor. It recalls Charlie Chaplin Bing Crosby and Ethel Merman, parodies radio writers and a Goebbels quote about German soldiers. The piece also notes a banker of jokes about Cal Coolidge and a weather humor tip.
Whitney Bolton recalls Noel Coward delighting a London actress with a witty line about being right in wrong. Meyer Davis mentions a Broadway wolf who carts a girl in his car and jokes about color blind traffic signals. At the Coq Rouge a playwright teases that in the second act the hero tells the leading lady she looks wonderful tonight.
In Whittingham Vermont a monument marks Brigham Young birth on the spot with an inscription praising the 1801 birth and a man of courage. A separate gag notes Mussolini and the King of Italy in a staged scene about a dropped handkerchief and a restrained Duce.
A fragment notes the last day of the G. O. P. Convention. Russia presented demands to Romania as the World Telegram office rushed a late edition amid bedlam and confusion.
A contrast between passive self pity and active reform. The passive side wrings hands and loses ground while the proactive side fixes issues and achieves goals. Promises linger in memory with the people who hear them, even if we forget.
A customer asks to settle an old balance and then obtain a suit on the same payment terms. The tailor confirms the account question and considers providing another suit under the same arrangement.
Mrs Mefoofsky speaks to a gathering of women at the Castleholm Restaurant offering a provocative non Aryan view of Hitler. She denounces the regime yet concedes she dislikes his attitude, sparking astonishment among attendees.
A collection of quips from Olin Miller Anon Christopher Morley and others. The Louisville Times quotes Italians Job French Bear In Alpine Tilt. Critics like John Anderson and Charles Laughton weigh in on wit and style.
R J Mock hit a long straight drive from the 10th tee at Aston II on July 3. He searched for his ball, nearly giving up, when another golfer handed him his ball that had landed in that golfer’s bag. Mock confirmed it was his.
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