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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1939
Page
4
The piece recalls a Birmingham girl’s solo round trip flight to Dallas and notes Decatur’s need for more recreation options. It mentions baseball, golf, boating, wrestling, boxing, cinema, swimming, softball, football, deer hunts, and a nearby game preserve as part of local activity.
The Montgomery Advertiser notes mixed reactions to the city’s image as a river bottom town with swampy connotations. It argues Montgomery lies on the Alabama river’s high side, a bustling river town with waters rushing toward the river and a lack of mountain scenery.
Residents recall the Decatur canning plant of years past run by the junior chamber of commerce. The plant closed after investors misread crop trends and farmers failed to supply tomatoes in the expected quantities, making the operation unprofitable.
In Syracuse New York the Attent subsidy plan and Secretary Wallace are cited as encouraging signs. Steel operations continue to rise while only two daily newspapers remain the Evening Journal and Sunday American, reflecting shrinking local press amid ongoing consolidation.
The Baldwyn Times editorial recalls a Decatur producer's claim that packing and labeling affect marketing. A California grower leased Baldwin county land to ship Alabama lettuce in labeled crates. When mislabeling as Hollywood Girl moved Alabama produce to California prices, Alabama goods fetched New York market levels.
In Decatur Louisville and Nashville lines Milton Andrews serves as both railroad freight agent and yardmaster. He handles shipping with a friendly, teasing rapport, keeping the two roles in balance as tensions between office and yard dissolve into routine harmony.
The war department quarterly magazine leaks detailed manpower tallies for major powers as of March 1. Russia reportedly lists 18 million trained personnel, far outpacing Germany and Japan, with China and Britain also outlined and percentages of ready forces noted. The piece discusses potential peace prospects and U.S. diplomatic caution amid rising tensions.
Business leaders wishfully note reports of Thurman Arnold returning to Yale. Arnold aims to teach and write a modern equivalent of Bryce's American Commonwealth after leaving big business, but Yale trustees face unresolved frictions and he delays departure until his trust reform work runs smoothly, possibly next February or later.
The piece outlines a dispute over who would control a new spending program. Jesse Jones faces changes as Treasury Counsel Foley insists the loan agency must attach to RFC to gain jurisdiction. Shingle makers press state department with anti trade agreement protests, piling up files and prompting clerks to threaten reshingling doors.
Etowah County farmers association officials forecast completion of Gadsden's new live stock market by August 15 as construction advances.
Swimming is praised as a full body workout with water cooling the body and enabling extended effort. It notes learning as a challenge, fear of water as a barrier, and shows health benefits along with risks like nose and eye irritation and potential infections in pools.
Mrs P asks about taking a girl with noncontagious bone TB to care for. response supports adoption claiming no human-to-human contagion except lung TB. The speaker thanks the caller.
None of the conditions named affect normal eye reflexes. Abnormal reflexes are caused by morphine or atropine use, locomotor ataxia, paresis, iritis, or brain tumor.
A medical reply explains leprosy as a chronic infectious disease not highly contagious. It mainly affects facial skin near the nose with possible hands and feet involvement. Treatment with cha mogra oil mitigates symptoms significantly.
The question asks if smoking bologna sausage mettwurst or braunschweiger at home kills trichinae without further prep. Answer: No.
Editor notes Dr Clendening provides seven pamphlets at ten cents each. To receive, readers should mail ten cents plus a self addressed stamped envelope to Dr Logan Clendening care of the paper. Titles include Three Weeks Facing Diet Indigestion and Constipation Reducing and Gaining Infant Feeding Instructions for the Treatment of Diabetes Feminine Hygiene and The Care of the Hair and Skin.
The National Cotton Council authorized President Oscar Johnston to seek federal help in Washington to back a program uniting cotton, hog producers and soybean farmers to raise prices of cottonseed and related products. They propose a 15 dollar per ton seed price and aim to absorb a large lard surplus amid a strong soybean crop. Johnston will meet with Secretary Wallace and surplus commodities officials in Washington.
In Norristown Pennsylvania on July 25 a frog story ends with a wrist watch recovered from a bath house floor. Mrs Jane McLaughlins nephew Frank Supplee crawled under the bath house and retrieved the watch after a bullfrog got there first. An autopsy was performed and the watch was found.
A collection of sharp jokes and dialogue scenes contrasts gender roles in domestic life and politics. Bits include a mother urging practical male skills at the table, college slang on return from school, a farmer's son’s breakfast quips, and exchanges about aggression, advertising, and social norms.
A reflective voice laments the limits of aid as others bear their burdens. The speaker recalls attempting to help but admits hearts break, doubt and despair persist, and true binding comfort remains elusive. A brief phone scene interrupts with a law firm greeting.
Members of the Alabama congress of parents and teachers in Auburn favor a statewide stock law. Mrs. Albert Thomas, chair of the legislation committee, said a resolution from the summer institute urged banning roving live stock.
William J. Patterson of North Dakota was nominated by President Roosevelt to the Interstate Commerce Commission for a term expiring December 31, 1945.
Carl Van Doren recounts two Virginians during the Revolution one loyalist backed by royalist power who fled to England and the other a patriot who served with the Continental army. The piece notes Vermont’s land claims and King George II’s intervention on squatters rights before a dramatic escort of Mrs Van Doren’s party home by British cavalry.
A historical portrait of Rev. Jacob Duche advising Washington to seek peace, the New York critique of the Declaration of Independence, and Washington’s order to protect noncombatant women and children in Millville after the Princeton battle.
In May 1779 General G. S. Silliman guarding Connecticut’s coast was kidnapped at Fairfield by loyalists from Oyster Bay. A Bridgeport patriot party seized Thomas Jones, a New York Supreme Court judge, in November. An exchange occurred in April with the two prisoners aboard ships in the Sound. They dined on a turkey sent by Silliman’s wife and Jones’s wife later sent tea. Both were Yale graduates, classes of 1750 and 1752.
The piece argues spiritual poverty results from worldliness and misplaced priorities. It compares Esau's values to a life fixed on low ideals, urging believers to keep ideals ahead, grow in grace, and stay mobile in faith to become rich in the Kingdom of God.
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