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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1946
Page
4
The article urges advancing Pryor Field development as a key Alabama project. It highlights Hartselle opening a livestock market as part of Morgan County’s growth push. The piece stresses countywide progress through constructive actions by local boards and commerce groups.
A reader pleads for reprinting Walt Mason's anti cost of living verse. The piece lampoons rising prices at a hash house with comic rhymes about butter eggs beans and chicken costs and the landlord’s exaggerated woes.
The piece notes a light vote in the senatorial race with no clear issues among front runners. It argues the Senate’s high power and policy role, including treaty ratification, make the office crucial yet the campaign lacked mudslinging. It urges citizens to exercise responsibility.
Editorials from The Nashville Banner and veterans groups denounce extending GI Bill benefits to merchant mariners. They argue mercantile sailors were civilian workers paid more than GI beneficiaries and not subject to military discipline, urging Congress to reject equal GI privileges.
A Tennessee race forms around incumbent Senator Kenneth McKellar and his rival Carmack as the Crump political network seeks to defend its grip. Washington views the struggle as uncertain, with McKellar’s fate and Crump influence in the balance.
A black suspect detained in New York City faced a mob of about one hundred residents demanding his release after a white woman accused him of assault. Two police officers who arrested him kept the crowd from taking vigilante action.
Westbrook Pegler comments on rail industry propaganda led by Robert R. Young of Chesapeake and Ohio. He critiques new streamliner designs and lightweight cars, warns of safety concerns, and recalls prewar travel experiences while noting CIO strikes and regulatory appeals over the Pullman company sale.
A doctor outlines an effective approach to pruritus ani focusing on hygiene changes, a mouth medication with taka diastase atropine and phenobarbital, and the sedative diphenyl hydantoin. The regimen, aided by silver nitrate for skin cracking, reduced symptoms in days, with best relief within a week.
A fragmented piece satirizes office trade and advice with a quirky exchange about names and duties. It mocks couples and routines, then shifts to a joke about asbestos meaning a Latin word for welcome and a humorous note on tempers and lions.
A dialogue about railway economics and safety cites aging engineers and conductors, retirement plans, and the push to retire old Pullmans. The speaker opposes high speed dreams, warning against overtaxing tired crews and delaying promotions that keep workers in unsafe hands.
A Decatur exchange contrasts two local merchants on promptness of payments. One man, Owen Moore, is criticized for slow pay while another business owner boasts of never delaying settlements, highlighting tensions in town commerce.
A vintage snippet advises sewing two old gowns into a pen wiper. A Decatur man recalls growing up fatherless at nine months and says he began by crawling to a baby show to win prize money. A safety reminder warns that anyone near water should avoid deep water to stay safe.
Gladys, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Compton, is improving rapidly after a broken arm. Miss Turley conducts summer school in Greenbrier and spends the weekend at home. Miss Worthington returns from a Tennessee vacation. The Thomas family announces the birth of a son. Bess Bailey expected to return from Selman today. Jennie and Jesse Williams of Cullman arrive to visit Miss Etta and Miss Besse Eubanks. A new law partnership formed by W. R. Walker and W. T. Sanders Jr. Allen Thomas to spend today in Birmingham. Eberle, in Switzerland, writes from Paris he is happy on his way. on leave from the machine shop.
A flurry of names and whispers cross entertainment and power circles. Romancing-Doris Lilly, Vincent Orssich, Desi Arnaz, George Raft, and others surface alongside political moves with Dewey, Wheeler, and Green linked to forthcoming shifts. A mix of showbusiness maneuvers, lobbyist intrigue, and cabinet chatter unfolds in this zippy, unnamed-column snapshot.
The piece Dark of the Moon by Howard Richardson and William Barney It is in rehearsal at Asheville Community Theatre North Carolina for performances August 29 and 30 The play draws on the ballad Barbara Allen found near the authors home and theme. Local cultural notes include Henrietta Goldstein quitting the Danny O Neil fanclub The Sham rocks and Viscount Las Celle’s Broadway activity. Fred Miller a long time drummer and instructor with ties to British Guards and U S Army drum and trumpet schools is noted.
Saratoga will open its 24 day season half-open half-shut with restrained displays. Arrowhead Inn returns August 2 after 1942 with a chorus line and the singer Bernice Sparks at the Spa. Penny Edwards riffs on a subway poster about Mamie and OE.
The article outlines the standard washing sequence: glassware first, then silver, plates, cups and saucers, serving dishes, platters, baking dishes, and finally pots and pans. The list emphasizes cleanliness priority and likely kitchen efficiency.
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