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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1950
Page
4
A vintage ad touts Cardus as a modern monthly aid to relieve menstrual cramps and functional disturbances. It promises "70% grateful comfort" and urges women to ask their dealer for Cardus, noting thousands have used it successfully.
An advertisement offers pattern T4641 Jr Miss sizes plus a sunfrock and jacket with easy sewing and illustrated instructions. It also promotes the Anne Adams Summer Pattern Book with vacation clothes and two bath sarongs, requiring coins for handling and a separate twenty cent booklet request.
Invitation lists Mrs R W Anderson and Mrs Ray Childs as June committee chairs for a club event due by June 13. Also notes couples married by Dr Kimbrough of Woodlawn Methodist to be honored at the 11 o clock service Sunday June 18 1950 in Birmingham Alabama.
Stephen Watkins recovering after tonsillectomy at Emens Link. Elizabeth Namie improving at home 604 East Church Street. Mrs. C A Moore to Chattanooga to visit uncle and aunt S H Frank on Signal Mountain. Mr and Mrs Frank celebrate fiftieth anniversary with George Sletcher and daughter Ann. Carolyn Finney of Montgomery visiting Anne Coleman. Dick Still Jr of Auburn spending weeks with H P Still family. A J Coleman II returning from Panama City Florida after Chi Omega house party. Joe Martin Castleberry Alabama home from Decatur trip with Truman Farrer family.
Mrs Allan Wallace and Mr and Mrs George Wallace with W P Russell are due home tonight after a several days visit to Cincinnati Ohio. Miss Delores Jean Williams who had been staying with her uncle and aunt Mr and Mrs Ed Williams Chattanooga Tennessee is recovering well after an appendectomy performed Wednesday.
Former Memphis mayor James J. Pleasants Jr died from an accidental gunshot wound Friday night. Inspector Pete Wiebenga of the homicide bureau reported the death, with a 38 caliber revolver found at Pleasants's feet. The case was closed after investigations.
Dorothy Dix counsels two readers on failed romance and eager but immature partners. A 37 year old woman faces a noncommittal lover who won’t marry, while a 20 year old seeks marriage now from an 18 year old. Dix urges realism and patience, urging the first to end the affair and the second to let the boy grow up.
A disillusioned man laments a slovenly, untidy wife citing laziness as untreatable, noting a wife’s appearance stains a husband’s reputation and unjustly reflects on him as others judge him by her look.
A wife writes that her husband once loved another woman who later divorced and may still love him. She admits not loving him and wonders whether to reveal the truth and grant him a divorce so he can marry his former love, or stay married and waste years. She asks for guidance.
A reader asks whether ending a troubled marriage is the wisest course and Dorothy Dix recommends divorce to remove the entangled snarl. The columnist notes no personal reply but offers leaflet D-1 Broken Engagements for 5 cents with SASE to Miss Dix in New York.
Announcement of altered service hours at Kirby Memorial Presbyterian chapel on Courtland Road. Pastor Bob Cousar set Sunday school for 9 30 A M and preaching at 11 A M, with Jimmy Bloodworth as Sunday school superintendent.
Crochet and knitting patterns for three rug designs with scraps materials. Laura Wheeler’s Improved pattern guides simple crochet and knitting with charts photos and directions. Send twenty cents for pattern 514 to Decatur Needlecraft Dept New York. include name address zone. Also new Laura Wheeler book offers thirty patterns with free sample and book order.
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