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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1929
Page
4
Alabama farmers report better crop conditions than in several years and anticipate a favorable fall before the usual farm panic period. Weather and growing season factors are cited as improving prospects for yields.
A millionaire's son is detained on an assault charge. Officials indicate the case may move swiftly, and he is unlikely to remain in custody long.
A traveler feeling homesick reveals how separation from home stems from work or study missions. The piece reflects on the human need for familiar surroundings when abroad.
A note recalls Chuck Klein once sold for 200 dollars before rising as a home run leader in two major baseball leagues, highlighting a later ascent from an early bargain to icon status.
A friend moved close yesterday and asked if it was hot enough for us. We wondered if he was kidding.
A Tuscaloosa News item notes a woman asserting influence in public life, highlighting her voice and leadership. The piece frames her day of agency as a symbol of empowerment within the community.
The piece envisions a day with up to 50 curb market sellers daily offering over 300 dollars in farm produce. It notes recent gains in turnout and produce quantity and argues farmers must drive the market to solve agricultural marketing locally.
A Pike County mass meeting follows county commissioners cutting nearly all appropriations and abolishing departments except the board, with Farm agencies and health unit affected. The Troy Messenger notes public skepticism toward local revenue boards amid ongoing economic strain.
The Columbia Tennessee Herald reports a 27 pound catfish caught by an angler who leapt in and bear hugged the fish to shore. The piece argues Congress should appropriate funds for medals honoring top fish stories, noting a probe may be needed before presenting any award.
Birmingham Post reports No 1 American Legion launching a memorial plan to list every Alabama World War I casualty on a tablet at Legion Stadium. Morgan County residents are urged to submit names of local veterans who died in service or from war related disease to ensure full recognition.
The piece argues that a $500 million government relief for surplus crops cannot fix U S agriculture without farmer organization and diversification. It criticizes reliance on single crops and calls for cooperative marketing and broader farm structures to balance supply and prices.
The Anniston Star discusses county mergers as a trend aimed at cutting costs. It cites Alabama and other states with varying county counts and notes how transportation and consolidation could lower overhead. The piece weighs practicality versus skepticism and whether Alabama will follow suit.
Editorial highlights Mr Sunshane’s day and Cassidy brothers’ street brawl at a Broadway speakeasy ending with gunfire. It critiques police, Prohibition enforcement and city tax policy in Colby Kansas, plus bold reflections on Bolshevism, Russia and racketeering in Chicago and New York.
Richard Maslock surveys a fanciful New York project by the Merchants Association proposing seven wonders of the city. A poll highlights major sites including the water system Woolworth Building subway Met Museum Statue of Liberty and Grand Central.
Washington basks in a busy midsummer scene as Hoover and Congress push a “vacationless summer” while diplomats base summer embassies nearby. Langley Park hosts British envoy Sir Esme Howard and Lady Isabella, with Japanese, Belgian ambassadors also summering in Maryland. New York’s water system, spanning seventeen dams and multiple lakes, tunnels under the Hudson to Manhattan, with $187 million spent over 30 years and plans to draw Delaware basin water for further extension.
The Brazilian ambassador Senor S Gurgel do Amaral keeps Washington as a summer base with motor trips and visits to friends at resorts. The Czecho Slovakia minister and Mme Veverka rent a cottage at Arundel Park in Chesapeake Bay country. The Austria minister and Mme Prochnik join weekends at Annapolis Roads. The Italian ambassador visited Italy early, then returned and remains at the embassy.
In a fragmentary note the minister of Hun and Countess Szechenyi declined to accompany the mer. They have traveled to Newport where Countess Szechenyi’s relatives the Vanderbilts and Whitneys summer.
The Catskill water system is praised as a genuine wonder by engineers, delivering rainwater over 125 miles through pipes to 968 square miles of upstate New York. Water travels a full day to reach Manhattan apartment plumbing, with reservoirs drawing tourists. Aerating plants at Ashokan and Kensico enhance the system.
The Catskill water system is praised for its dams reservoirs chlorinating and aerating plants 14 foot aqueducts and tunnels with further note on Long Island wells serving Brooklyn and Greater New York supplying nearly 100 million.
Health guidance from Dr Copeland stresses keeping infant formula cold from delivery to feeding. Contaminated milk risks diarrhea and weakened digestion. use cool storage, avoid room temperature, and limit heat exposure. When diarrhea appears stop feedings and offer boiled, cooled water until advised by a physician.
A collage of playful quips and comic exchanges from a school setting. A teacher vents about mischief, a pupil irritates authority, and remarks span marriage jokes to wordplay. The humor echoes classroom banter and social foibles of the era.
A voice asks for a copy of The Child Belongs to Me while a clerk arranges Yes Sir That’s My Baby. A tourist asks to hear Landlady. A family cuts electric service. Odd lines describe seaside fashion and tanning.
A fragment from a poem depicts a couple at a costly resort with a long green roll of tide and a comment that there is no use visiting without one. The lines probe desire and practical constraints in a distant setting.
The entry defines 3 A DAY Corpulency as excessive fatness or obesity and notes Conge as taking leave with civility and duress as hardship or restraint. It lists Connex terms with brief senses and examples.
Mr and Mrs Robin Thomas left for High Point North Carolina to attend the annual furniture exhibit. Miss Margaret Sewell visits her brother and sister in Nashville. Little Sister Pointer returned from a two week visit to Mrs Sam Hall in Tuscumbia. Mrs J E Bowers returned from Crystal Springs Mississippi after two months abroad.
The passage describes Peter and John going to the temple at the ninth hour. A man lame from birth is carried daily to the temple gate called Beautiful to beg alms. Peter and John offer healing in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, saying rise up and walk.
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