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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1952
Page
9
A quirky local vignette features Janine Barclay Hawkins on the Republican ticket being tossed through a barn door by a cow while whistling ragtime. Ham Sprucetree notes the cow’s possible fundamentalism, and a soldier appears with a bouquet asking to relay the Army censor’s visit.
A woman learning to drive backed into a car on a main street, striking a vehicle driven by the town's police chief. The incident is described in a humorous vein with other light anecdotes and puzzles interwoven.
Willis C. Ware of Ware Chemical Co Chicago turns a chemical observation into a new product Nagastar that prevents static cling in laundry. The story notes his 23 years of hard work and curiosity and ends with a farmer joke about priceless experience.
On May 31 at 1 55 p.m. the Volga Don navigation canal was completed by the merging of two rivers. On the next day at 5 p.m. Tow Ship 306 departed from Stalingrad for the Sea of Azov as the first vessel to use the new canal. A gala opening is planned next Sunday, giving Moscow the title port of five seas and connecting western Russia by a continuous waterway.
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