Local Personalities Share News and Travel Updates
Pfc. Frank W. Nelson from Camp Crowder Mo visits two weeks with father, sister, and Miss Jerry Nelson. Mrs. Kimball B Jones of Jacksonville Fla to spend summer with sister Miss Claire Bloodworth. Mrs. M P Wilson returned from Charlotte N C, joined by Mrs. Ralph Jennings of St Angeles Texas. Otto Fischer Jr to leave July 1 to enter the Navy. Royce Powell in Birmingham. Giles Kotcher recovering from recent accident. Mrs. Emil Kotcher and Giles return from six weeks with relatives in New Jersey and New York. Mrs. A T Hanson returns from visit to Gloster Miss and New Orleans. John L Farriss Lt and Mrs Brinkard of Florence visit farmer's mother. Claude Aycock leaves for Montgomery conference. Mrs R L Parsons remains ill. Atlee Hoff and others spend Sunday at Sweetwater Tennessee for University of the South exercises. Rev and Mrs Peter M Dennis move to New Bedford Indiana as rector. Mrs Ed Pirie and daughter Elizabeth Guyton visit locals.
Pattern 4814 Junior Miss frock and cap pattern sale
Pattern 4814 offers a "sure-fire" easy sewing Junior Miss dress and cap in sizes 11 to 18 with yardage details. The notice sells the pattern for twenty cents and includes a companion needlework motif pattern. Also advertised is a larger Anne Adams summer styles pattern book with a free pattern printed inside.
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Decatur Daily
Pattern Dept
West 17Th St
New York
N. Y
Anne Adams
Residents and guests visiting Tuscumbia area last week
Local notices record visitors and departures across several households. Mr and Mrs Guyton plan a Wednesday trip to Kosciusko Mississippi to visit grandparents and then return for a short visit by Mr Pirie before resuming travel to Louisville. Other entries note hospital bedside visits, training assignments in Grenada Mississippi, Nashville visits, and relatives hosting in Huntsville Savannah Tennessee Norfolk Virginia.
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Mrs. Guyton
Kosciusko
Miss
Mr. Pirie
Louisville
Shoe Buyers Granted Break In National Odd Lot Sale
The Office of Price Administration announced a ration-free shoe sale from July 10 to July 29 offering about seven million pairs. Shoes must cost at least 25 percent less than the June 1 price, and the sale covers men and women and boys sizes 1 to 6 while excluding children's, misses, and little boys shoes. Less than 1.5 percent of 1944 supply will be included.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Purse Snatching Reported On Bank Street
Mrs. E. E. Hargrove lost a new purse containing a small amount of money ration books keys and a compact about 9 45 p m Saturday as a Negro youth snatched it from her arm on Bank Street between Alabama drug store and Kuhns 5 and 10 cent store police were called but the thief had fled with the purse.
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E. E. Hargrove
Bank Street
Hull Returns to Work After Rest and Polish Premier Visit
Secretary of State Hull resumed duties in Washington after a ten day rest at Hershey Pennsylvania. His first engagement included a discussion with visiting Polish Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk.
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Washington
Hull
Hershey
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk
Ill brother-in-law stays in hospital as family returns home
The bedside of their brother-in-law, Tom Burns, remains grave as he lies ill. Miss Geraldine Hill and Miss Corinne Ray returned Saturday after vacationing in Florida. Mrs. Robert Blackwell, with her granddaughter Diane and niece Letty Black, came back Friday from Columbia, Tennessee where they stayed with her daughter Mrs. Robert Anthony.
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Tom Burns
Mary Lou Tarpley
Tuscumbia
Geraldine Hill
Corinne Ray
Points -in-Florida
Robert Blackwell
Diane
Letty Black
Robert Anthony
Anthony
Columbia,Tenn
Neck Beauty Routine For Timeless Lines And Tone
A vintage beauty guide urges women to treat the neck as part of the complexion with nightly creams and exercises. It recommends applying lotion along collar lines, gentle rotary massages, neck stretches, cold compresses, and a lemon peroxide mix for discolorations to prevent neck folds and necklace lines.
Dorothy Dix: Men Illogical on Grooming
Dear Dorothy Dix notes a husband writes about gendered grooming quirks and mutual dissatisfaction. Women prefer tidy, well groomed partners while men resist at home with facial hair and casual dress, suggesting insecurities affect marriages and divorces.
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Dorothy DIX
Dorothy Oix
The Distaste for Untidy Women and Family Etiquette
A reader asks why men scorn unkempt women while expecting polished partners. Dorothy Dix offers remarks on appearance expectations, marriage woes, and etiquette between daughters in law and mothers in law.
Colorful flower embroidery pattern for leisure stitchers
Rejuvenate a plain bedspread with pattern 895 featuring 18 motifs in sizes from 4 1 2 by 6 3 4 inches to 11 2 by 2 1 2 inches. Send 15 cents for pattern and name and address to Needlecraft Dept. 82 Eighth Avenue New York 11 NY. Add 15 cents for a 32 page catalog with 133 embroidery knitting crochet quilt and decor designs.
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Decatur Daily
Needlecraft Dept
Eighth Avenue
New York
N. Y
Walkout ends at Fairfield mill over racial matter
An employee at the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad tin plate mill in Fairfield returned to work, ending a two day stoppage sparked by a racial matter. White workers complained lines for white and Negro employees were placed too close together.
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Birmingham
Ala
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company
Fairfield
Cotton bill defended as aid to the poor in textiles
Rep. Brown of Georgia argued the Bankhead Brown amendment would raise raw cotton parity and boost production of cheaper cloths to lower living costs. Bowles warned the plan would raise consumer textile bills, while supporters said no price increase would occur.
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Washington
Brown
House
Chester Bowles
Bankhead
D-Ala
Senate
Bowles
Bankhead-Brown
War Production Board
WPB
Office of Price Administration
ORA
Agriculture Department
Thompson dies in Birmingham after long illness
Walter Glenn Galley Thompson aged 41, secretary to City Commissioner Eugene Connor since 1937, died today in a Birmingham hospital after an extended illness.
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Galley Thompson
Birmingham
Walter Glenn (Galley)Thompson
Eugene Connor
Three die in separate traffic crashes near Marion Alabama
Three persons were killed and three injured in separate traffic crashes near Marion Alabama over the weekend. Henry Belcher aged 33 of Centerville was fatally injured early yesterday 13 miles east of Marion after being struck by a car, according to Sheriff J C Griffin. Two Black passengers Berkley-Fubbs 54 and Allen Scott 9, both of Marion, died when their truck collided with a parked truck a mile north of Marion Saturday night, with three others injured.
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Marion
Ala
Henry Belcher
Centerville
Here
J. C. Griffin
Berkley-Fubbs
Allen Scott
Negro driver charged with manslaughter in county accident
Sheriff Griffin said Roland Massey identified as a Negro and driver of the truck that hit a parked car was jailed in Perry County on a manslaughter charge. Homing pigeons were used extensively in World War I. Albemarle Sound in North Carolina is described as the world’s largest coastal freshwater sound.
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Griffin
Roland Massey
Perry County
Albemarle Sound
North Carolina
Also Mentioned on This Page
B. M. Bloodworth
Frank W. Nelson
Camp Crowder, Mo
W. E. Nelson
Jerry Nelson
Kimball B. Jones
Jacksonville, Fla
Claire Bloodworth
M. P. Wilson
Charlotte
N. C
Ralph Jennings
St. Angeles
Texas
Otto Fischer, Jr
U. S
Nav
Royce Powell
Giles. Kotcher
Emil Kotcher
Giles
New Jersey
Mt. Vernon
New York City
A. T. Hanson
Allan Archer
Gloster
Kenneth Jordan
New Orleans
John L. Farriss
Claude Aycock
Montgomery
R. L. Parsons
East Moulton Street
Atlee H. Hoff
F.l Pirie
Louisville, Ky
Bessie Peach
Bennie’ Malone
Sweetwater
Tenn
University of the South
Peter M. Dennis
Tullahoma
New Bedford
Ind
Rev
Dennis
Ed Pirie
Elizabeth Guyton
Goidel
T. Z. Bailey
Grenada
Brad Bibb Bailey
Mary Augusta Bibb
Nashville
Walter
Norfolk
Huntsville
Claude McMurtrie
V. L. Herndon
Celeste
Paul L’heurex
Savannah, Tenn
Sanders Cortner, Jr
Courtland
Dolores Hardage
T. H. Johnson
East Point, Ga
Raymond Brown
Frank Hillis
Decatur
John Hargrove
Elwood
Tarpley
Muncie
Helen Follett
Carole Landis
U. S. Army Air Corps
The
Bell Syndicate, Inc
Séiitia Wheeler
Fred Astaire
Jerome Kern
Lovelier
Rita Hayworth
Roxy Théatre
Lydia E. Pinkham
Moye
Paster
Loyd’s
Decatur Elks Lodge
Elks
Dad
Bayon
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