Marriage Unites Eva Cryer and Gilbert Brown in Hartselle
Miss Eva Louise Cryer and Mr Gilbert Andrew Brown of Hartselle Route 3 wed at the groom’s parents home Friday night June 9 1939 with Rev DeWitt C Prince officiating. The couple plans to reside in Six Mile community.
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Eva Louise Cryer
Gilbert Andrew Brown
Hartselle
Route 3
John Clifton Brown
DeWitt .C. Prince
Hammond Cryer
Brown
Six Mile
Charles William Sarver
Margaret Ann
Ernest Papenburg
North
Jefferson Street
Athens
Alabama
Miss Katherine Boswell Illness and Social Notes
Personal items list Miss Katherine Boswell ill at her home and various locals visiting Birmingham, Sewanee dances, and relatives traveling to Nashville Huntsville Knoxville New York and Florida. The notes mention reunions, World’s Fair plans, and several extended visits across Alabama and nearby states.
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Katherine Boswell
Pauline Laymon
Joseph Fortunato
Newark
New Jersey
New York
Morgan County Notables Share Weekend Visits and Tragedy
Decatur families, including the Wright and Palmer households, hosted relatives from Birmingham and Valdermosa during weekend visits. Sympathy is extended to Finis Ward of Oden Ridge after his son Cecil died in an auto accident last week.
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Burt Wright
Eugene
Emma Sue
Roger Hamilton
Roger Taylor
John David
Decatur
J. M. Palmer
Mack Waugh
Jeanne Ashworth
Birmingham
Judson Waugh
Ollie Mae Waugh
Harold Waugh
Bernice Ruth Cryer
Valdermosa
David McAnally
Charles Rice
Daisye Raye Quinn
Etheridge Mason
Oden Ridge
G. C. Vincent
Finis Ward
Cecil
Cotaco
Vera
Velma Murphy
Loyd
Carl Murphy
Alex Sherrill Williams
Edythe Peck
Fayne Peck
Mt Tabor community crops lag after rain
Farmers in Morgan County and Mt Tabor report crop delays due to rainfall. Local residents share family visits and social gatherings with relatives from Gadsden Huntsville and St. Louis as weekend activities.
Mild tropical disturbance sights Gulf west of Key West
The Weather Bureau reports the season's first mild tropical disturbance moving northward through the Gulf of Mexico about 350 miles west of Key West. It is slight to moderate in intensity with gale force winds north and northeast of the center. Small craft warnings extend from Key West to Grand Isle Louisiana for the next 36 hours.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Weather Bureau
Gulf of Mexico
Key West
New Orleans
Grand Islé
Make This Pattern at Home Hetero Dress Has Soft Charm
Anne Adams pattern 4030 offers a summer dress with bow knots and eyelet options. The article promotes Pattern 4090 in a range of misses and women sizes and provides mailing details and prices for the pattern book and combined book with pattern.
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Anne Adams
Merve
Decatur Daily
Pattern Department
17Th St
New York
N. Y
Courtl and Community Notes Highlight Moves and Visits
Local residents and visitors share travel updates and hometown ties. Helen Bynum returns from Decatur after a week with relatives, while Huntsville residents J K Clarke and family spend the weekend here. Students Gilchrist and McCullar plan summer stays, and church activities include a sermon by Rev Louis Yelanjian. The town’s season opens with a baseball defeat by Town Creek, and a Princess Theatre dance recital features several local youths.
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Helen Bynum
Decatur
J. K. Clarke
Huntsville
Alvin Moore
Chattanooga
Fred Redman
H. D. Lane
Ann Lane Martin
Ballentine
Ann Ballentine
Town Creek
Princess Theatre
G. P. Banniza
Mary Lee Vaughan
Mary Ann Gilchrist
Jane Robbins McGarry
Jane Elgin Ashford
Lucy Byrd Hollenbeck
Hilary
Ann Tyson Horton
Master Wiley Horton
Happy ending of an old romance in Tennessee
The 1898 Cullman romance of Lem Schneider and Mamie James, interrupted when he went to the Spanish American War, ends in marriage in Memphis after both had widowhoods and Schneider's return from California. The couple renewed their romance and wed in Tennessee.
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Lem Schneider
Mamie James
Cullman
Florida passes broad laws creating patrol and codes
Florida lawmakers approved acts creating a state highway patrol raising the ad valorem tax levy and establishing public school and criminal codes. Governor Cone sent the measures to the secretary of state without signing or vetoing them.
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Tallahassee
Fla
Florida
House
Senate
Cone
R. A. Gray
Beauty makeup tips for spring glow and facial shading
An article outlines cosmetics technique for a natural rosy complexion using careful blush placement from eye to nose, lip tones in harmony with cheeks, and light powder. It cautions against heavy pigment, notes season color trends, and advises outfits to suit skin tone while inviting readers to submit beauty questions to the newspaper Beauty Box editor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nature
New York in Need of Rain Drives Drought Alarm
New York faces its worst drought since 1903 with only 3 inches of rain since May 1 Nassau and New Jersey farms report stressed crops and ongoing losses. Howard H. Campbell cites alarm among Long Island growers over early potatoes corn and cabbage needing rain. Howard B. Sprague estimates May losses in New Jersey at 2 million dollars with more to come as drought continues.
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New York
Weather Bureau
A Pps
Long Island
New Jersey
Howard H. Campbell
Nassau County
Howard B. Sprague
New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station
New Brunswick
Pleasant Valley Social Notes In Morgan County
Mr and Mrs FE K Mathews of Decatur visited his parents Sunday. Miss Mattie and Evelyn Smallwood visited Mary Iva Mathews who is sick. Hubert Mathews visited Ruby Persel. Bertha Hawkins is improving. Cleave Mathews called Sunday and J T Mathews visited Will Frashers. Ord Walker motor ed to Hartselle Saturday.
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A. L. Whisenant
Gadsden
Asa Whisenant
Whisenant
Will Lemons
John F. Black
Huntsville
Rosa Oden
Verna
Ernest
Myrtle Culbreath
Irene Black
Nannie Howard
St. Louis
Liza Whisenant
Nina Parker
Shirley Whisenant
Worley Jackson
Asa L. Whisenant
Donald Baker
G. W. Bramlett
W. R. Knox
Hazel
Grady
Bobby
FE. K. Mathews
Decatur
Mattie
Evelyn Smallwood
Mary Iva Mathews
Hubert Mathews
Ruby Persel
Bertha Hawkins
Cleave Mathews
J.T. Mathews
Will Frashers
Ord Walker
Hartselle
Elks Furnish Two Sanatorium Rooms
Decatur Elks Lodge will furnish and equip two rooms at Morgan County Tuberculosis Sanatorium with one room for a woman patient and one for a man. Funds were raised by two recent barbecues and thrill shows at Benson Field. Committee members include Phil Dinsmore, Dr. A M Roan, B G Ryan, Carter Dobbs, Irvin Mitchell, B B Turley, Frank Denton, and Butler P A Hine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Decatur
Wife seeks missing husband in city search
Mrs. E. C. Vantresse asks officers and the press for help locating her husband who vanished after leaving 1320 Third Avenue South Monday night. A World War veteran in poor health with high blood pressure, he left after complaining of a headache following heat exposure on a WPA project. Any information is deeply appreciated. call 46 and ask for Ad Taker.
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E. C. Vantresse
Monady
Vantresse
Third Avenue S
Certificates Granted To Students Of Alabama Business Institute
The Alabama Business Institute awarded competent typist progress certificates to several students. Eugenia Berry and Berta Maé Joiner recorded speeds of 54 and 51 words per minute respectively, qualifying for gold pin. Goree and Margaret Dodd earned membership in the Junior Order of Artiste Typists.
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Alabama Business Institute
Eugenia Berry
Berta Maé Joiner
Frances Hare
Ruth Pettey
Susie Goree
Ruth Nelson
Jimmie Holland
Ruth Farrer
Martha Whitlock
Myrtle Kaylor
Margaret Dodd
Jane Royer
Elizabeth McBride
Harriet Irwin
Ima Edwards
Lilia Mae Halfacre
Fugenia Berry
Berta Joiner
Brity
Neisen Uate —Goree
Order of Artiatle Typists
Alabama April industrial gains amid auto sales rise
Pace in Tuscaloosa shows Alabama industrial activity up in 13 of 17 classifications. The biggest March to April gain was in new passenger automobile sales, which rose 1549 units from April 1938, per the University of Alabama Bureau of Business June issue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tuscalooba
Ala
Alabama
Bureau of Business
University of Alabama
Business News
Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic for Malaria Relief
Promote Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic as a reliable malaria remedy with tasteless quinidine and iron. Claims to relieve chills and fever and to strengthen the body, urging immediate use at onset of malaria symptoms. Sold at all drugstores with a larger size offering better value.
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Grove
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