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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1937
Page
4
The Decatur Daily notes its publication schedule and ownership by the Tennessee Valley Printing Co Inc. The paper states it is a member of the Associated Press and allowed to reuse AP content with credit.
The season offers carefree travel and leisure yet brings budgeting pressures and expense worries for households. It highlights how families balance leisure plans with rising costs and money management challenges.
The former head of 3. O. CO Carmichael Montevallo has been chosen as Vanderbilt University chancellor. The selection is praised as fitting and well considered.
Firms oppose the CIO organizing effort and plan to counter it with all available means while labor supporters press for membership. The conflict centers on deur labels and actions amid a tense industrial campaign.
The highway patrol reports a quiet weekend with only a small number of driving while intoxicated charges. Officials note liquor supply concerns may influence behavior and caution in consumption.
Twenty years after World War I began the government studies how the Veterans hospitals might be repurposed. Officials note the veteran population will decline as years pass and urge planning for future utilization of existing facilities.
The Market notes an encouraging May for the Decatur Packing Company. It reports one of its largest months since starting the packing business, turning about $20 000 to farmers in live stock purchases. The piece argues this proves Decatur supplied the market and benefits local trade.
Ki Wanis club the curb market committee urged city street forces to clean up the market’s playground area in Decatur. The piece calls attention to weeds and neglect hindering growth and warns that the market needs care to develop and attract buyers from Decatur and surrounding districts.
Pluck and Planning Athens outlines a drive to establish a public library. Civic and women’s clubs are asked for one hundred dollars each while the city and county boards would seek two thousand five hundred dollars each. The piece predicts a swift move to create the library.
Athens groups push for library funding with a coordinated effort. Civic and women’s clubs are urged to provide financial support and, more importantly, the resolve to accumulate funds for the public library need.
A Birmingham visitor offers cautious views on post repeal conditions in Birmingham. He notes no rise in visible intoxication, a slight drop in city accidents, and little public debate over the state liquor stores. The piece suggests the wet-dry question may not dominate next year's campaigns.
Julian Kendrick of Birmingham praises Decatur street paving after an inspection. Kenson Stewart, formerly of Corinth, buys a bungalow at 507 Fifth Avenue West. Rainy days bring higher farm incomes as observers report. Alabama Water Company advances the Washington Street water tower. First Confederate Memorial half dollars reach local banks. Miller and Fitzgerald musical revue plays at the Princess Theatre.
Mrs C E Walker will spend the Week end with her sister in Hunts ville. John Green and family spent the week end in Falkville visiting relatives.
A humorous column notes American housekeepers cheer the Duchess of Windsor as she clears out relics from Wasserleonburg Castle in Austria. They joke about deer horns, elephant tusks, a hippopotamus head, stuffed pheasants, and potential stuffed fish, while imagining future domestic trials.
A friend laments the loss of a decorative armadillo shell basket bought in Texas years ago. The writer notes the armadillo’s fatal harvesting, wonders about the missing item, and jokes with their housekeeper who suspects the basket may have walked off, while Texas experts confirm armadillos do not roam after being made into baskets.
The department reported last year fertilizer tag sales totaling 141570 dollars. Affects budgeting and regulatory fee collections for agricultural inputs.
Dr Logan Clendening discusses milk safety for infants, tracing milks from raw and certified to pasteurized. He explains boiled milk for purity, explains evaporated and condensed milks, and notes infant use of powdered milk for camping.
The AKC records reveal fluctuating purebred dog registrations from 1936 to 2005 with 66 025 in 2005 versus 77 450 in 1936 and 93 breeds, 67 rising or holding 1935 numbers. The cocker spaniel leads with 11 547 and Boston terrier 9 543 for the period, highlighting shifting breed popularity.
Senate continues hearings on wage hour bill and fall financing inquiry. Foreign relations panel weighs Buenos Aires treaties. Appropriations subcommittee completes relief bill hearings. House considers minor legislation and proposed amendments to the 1933 securities act. Flood control and agriculture panels grill Ohio basin program and farm tenancy bills. District of Columbia appropriation bill noted.
In a Loop department store two men ordered ice cream then moved to a rear office where they drew pistols and forced manager D V Wheeler to surrender $200 from a safe. They fled into an alley and escaped.
In Glenvis near Glenvis Neb a local farmer Ed Walvhers reports a severe drought impact stating the land has failed to yield corn for a long period. He says his crop losses reflect extreme dry conditions and financial strain on farm operations.
The passage weighs how fashion drives the choice of dog breeds, arguing that despite personal attachment to a beloved dog, broad trends influence which breed a person may prefer. It questions why fashion should determine a beloved companion.
A neighbor roasts a man who shirks duty and law while living with a partner, avoids voting, dodges bills, and shuns work or church. Yet the piece ends with a twist, claiming the subject comes from a good family and is “our new baby.”
A mother enforces Coueism with her children to coax a castor oil dose. The boy suggests a sharper approach by claiming he has already taken it, avoiding the need to swallow.
A street wise joke exchange highlights a hard town where canaries sing bass and a graveyard origin story. A surviving train accident man recounts a leg loss after a crash caused by a crack and a cigar moment. The wife scolds him for smoking on the train.
A playful classroom moment contrasts a lecture on parachutes with pun filled quips about publicity and language. It includes a request to use intensify in a sentence and jokes about a landlord and odd word usage for humor.
A long string of birthday book style quips defines a wife through humorous lines from many authors. Notable names and cities appear, reflecting a syndicated gag on marriage and partnership across the United States and Canada.
A collection of humorous regional zingers about wives. Dana Burnett cites a rare appreciation only from a mother. Pat Kelly jokes on tax deductions for a dependent wife. Bobbie Breakfield teases the notion of a “swell” wife with cynical tone.
A collection of humorous and provocative one liners on marriage from various authors including Curtis Kenyon Lee Reiser Abe Lyman Abe Lyman Albert Parnham Moe Weiner Gene Handsaker Joe Guttman and others. The quotes lampoon expectations and roles of wives in urban American culture.
A humorous Hollywood note credits Waldo Wald’s wife as the muse behind his electric refrigerator invention. The column includes quips about wives shaping home life and marriage.
A speaker uttered a cryptic line about covers on a bed and a fiddlestick, yielding confusion over intended meaning and context.
A concise, reflective line suggesting future plans to outwit opponents through authorship.
A collage of humorous quips on marriage from various authors and cities. The lines sketch wives as balancing partners or hardworking students and husbands as generous or teasing, with at least two authors and places hinted across New York Fort Lauderdale Columbus and others.
A large crowd enjoyed the school ice cream supper Saturday night with games directed by Miss Edna Mae Lipscomb. Proceeds benefited the Methodist pastor. Several residents and guests attended gatherings at homes and visits followed, including Mrs. Georgia Dunn and Miss Mary Emma Atkinson.
SUNSTRUCK SENNETT N Y June 9 Arthur Drew a gasoline station proprietor built a 1009 gallon tank lined with aluminum He says the sun striking the shiny surface on a hot day heats the water to 120 degrees Above the tank is a shower bath for passing truck drivers aiming to supply hot showers on the road.
In LaPorte Indiana on June 9 an ordinance prohibits parking trailers as permanent homes near Long Beach. Violators face a 20 dollar daily penalty. The measure aims to curb trailer encampments and reduce living expenses tied to seasonal resort areas.
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