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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1940
Page
7
Classified snippet shows a notice to bury a second hand girl’s bicycle and a request to call numbers. Another line offers to buy a used motorcycle in good condition attributed to Alva L. Roberts of Decatur Route 1. A feature note references Women in War and a local theater credit for Mrs. B. L. Hilton.
Mrs. Virginia M. Matthews, 23, paralysed and in an iron lung, gave birth to a preterm son weighing 6 pounds 3 ounces. Dr. Edwin S. Bettett said both mother and baby survived, a first for such a case with two similar births previously reported in North America. The mother remains on the respirator for several days.
In Rockwell City Iowa on July 30 Cynthia Erskine eight and her sister Yanara two search for shelter as the town siren marks dinner hour. The English refugees, staying with relatives, still fear air raid alerts deeply.
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