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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1949
Page
3
HAL BOYLE recalls Paris known as the silver foxhole during war now overrun by tourists. He describes combat veterans arriving from front lines, seeking beauty and respite, then aging into homesickness and nostalgia as they return to danger and camaraderie.
Town Creek reports a Baptist church skating party chaperoned by Mrs Travis Givens and Mrs Lonnie Roberts. Families and friends including the Givens, Roberts, Satterthwaites and Wilsons visited Florence Prattville and Brick, with school moves and absences noted. Ball games in Birmingham, Scout camp, and a Bahamas trip mention the week’s social and civic events.
Fragmentary passage honors the subject who endured war and used their blood to keep her in peace, a figure associated with the Western world’s enduring defense and resilience.
A fire last night destroyed the carpenter shop at the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Co. Fairfield works. A company spokesman said the monetary loss was substantial but not yet determined. The blaze origin was not determined.
Deputy Prime Minister Herbert Morrison outlined a more extensive socialist program at the Blackpool conference. He pledged to nationalize six more industries and to keep wartime powers on the books for use when needed, insisting private industry will be regulated. The speech signals a fierce election fight as Labour presses a broad nationalization agenda.
Billie Roy Smith of Decatur part of eight Anderson College ministerial students ordained into the Church Of God during services at Park Place Church of God in Anderson Indiana. Smith, a 1949 Anderson College graduate, receives a theology degree on June 10 and is married. The ordination featured Rev Robert Reardon and Dr John Morrison among speakers with Dr Charles E Brown delivering the charge.
English practice of bear and bull baiting, popular for seven centuries, was finally prohibited by Parliament in 1835, marking a decisive shift in animal treatment and public morality.
Animal hoofs vary from one toed horses to two toed cows pigs and sheep and four toed hippos, all modi fications of a five toed arrangement.
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