Alabama Cotton Crop Hits Fourth-Highest Yield on Record
Auburn Alabama reports 909000 bales from 1460000 planted acres yielding an average of 299 pounds lint per acre. O N Andrews notes the state has 1480000 acres planted as of July 1, up 1 percent from last year but 7 percent below the 10 year average. Madison leads with 54000 bales followed by Limestone 41000 Cullman 33700 Lawrence 33200 and Marshall 29800. Baldwin county posts the highest lint per acre at 414 pounds.
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Auburn
Alabama
O. N. Andrews
API Extension
Madison
Limestone
Cullman
Lawrence
Marshall
Baldwin
Tax liens totaling 54758.68 filed on Collins couple
Federal tax liens totaling fifty four thousand seven hundred fifty eight dollars and sixty eight cents were filed in Probate Court today against Mobile residents Joseph L. Collins and Bessie V. Collins by the Internal Revenue Service of the U S Treasury Department for unpaid liabilities.
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Mobile
Internal Revenue Service of
The
U. S. Treasury Department
Joseph L. Collins
Bessie V. Collins
Seaport by Pipe Dream The New Yorker Joke
A New Yorker on a Pullman jokes that Kansas City boosters could become a seaport by laying a two inch pipe to the Gulf. A wife story and a gag about economy and quitting smoking follow, ending with a quip about three onions curing snoring during 1948 to 1950.
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Chamber of Commerce
Kansas City
New Yorker
Kansas Citians
Gulf of Mexico
Trial of nurse opens Aug. 13th
The trial of 54 year old nurse Mrs Earle Dennison charged with poisoning her two young nieces for insurance money will begin in Wetumpka on August 13. Dennison reportedly confessed to giving arsenic laden soda to 2 year old Shirley Weldon and to bringing arsenic to the Weldon home the day before Polly Ann was stricken, though she denies poisoning Polly Ann. Autopsies confirmed arsenic in both girls.
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Wetumpka
Earle Dennison
Elmore
Polly Ann
C. J. Rehling
New Baby Jerry Don Born to Mr and Mrs Coy Alford
Morgan County notes report the arrival of a son to Mr and Mrs Coy Alford with mother and baby at home in good condition. Local obituaries and church happenings include the J D Hammam family funeral, Bible school close at Mt View, and a weeklong meeting at Gandy's Cove church led by Bro M S Palmer and Pennington of Arkadelphia.
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Coy Alford
Jerry Don
J. D. Hammam
Friendship
Robert Nathaniel Wright
Michigan
Buster Winkle
Neill
W. F. Key
Martha
Club House
Mt. View
Judson Lindsey
Arthur
Hubert Robinson
W. B. Bates
J. D. Light of
Arab
C. B. Neill
James C. Turner
Paul Smith
Bryan, Turney
Birmingham
Leon Turney
Harvey Stinson
Albert Stinson
Brown’s Chapel
Earlene McCaig
Falkville
Mary Alice Morris
Fay Brindley
Frances Jean Turn
Decatur Funhouse Bits and Local Oddities
A collage of light quips and vignettes from Decatur and surrounding areas. Miscellaneous jokes, humorous snippets, and brief local notices touch on April moods, a squabble of salad, a skunk incident, and playful quips about advertising and manners.
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Koolfud Soft Drinks
Kgs
Junius
Rc Newsitem
U. S
LEGS
Breast
U.S
Florida
Skinner
Hermitage
Morgan County
Mrs. WM. Morris
Decatur
Ivan J. Collins
Nev
Casper Cabbage
Reuben
Raymond
Addison
Kroger
Vet’s
Heinz
Sone HG Bottle
Stokely
Woodbury Shampoo
Libby
Vienna
Armour
Scott Tissue
Rolls
Aluminum
Feil
Ervingweave
Peg
Pan
Calif
Blue Goose
Pascal Celery
Bach
Wieners
Frosty Morn Cello
Texas
Sox
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