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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1942
Page
4
The column critiques state liquor policy shifts toward a legal sale system and predicts government control over alcohol. It also questions housing authority responses in Decatur, noting repeated surveys and bureaucratic delays as war-time housing remains unsolved. The piece muses on changes and long delays in plans for Alabama and North Alabama aviation presence.
The Piedmont Journal urges Alabama legislators to repeal or amend the primary campaign expense limits seen as too restrictive. It notes governor races cost well over ten thousand dollars and that aggressive county ad campaigns in Calhoun with five newspapers drive up costs. The paper argues liberalized allowances would be sensible and reduce law disrepute.
A column explains the Washington Moscow wartime deal, its limits on freedoms, and how the three Allied powers outline postwar aims. It notes changes from the Atlantic charter, the economic focus, and the long term arms and lend‑lease arrangements, with realism guiding postwar expectations.
Interest is rising in the revival at the First Christian Church led by Rev. Noble R. Edwards formerly of Bessemer. Evening services continue this week at eight. Ernest McCulloch conducts song service. Tonight Edwards speaks on What Gou Pains About Man.
Dr. Clendening explains bile production in the liver and how the gallbladder stores bile until digestion. He notes that removal usually causes no outward harm, cites species variation, and discusses emptying by fat presence and pregnancy effects. He warns about gallbladder infection and bile stasis during pregnancy.
An editor notes seven pamphlets available for readers at seven cents each with a self addressed stamped envelope to Dr Logan Clendening. The titles include Three WeeksReducing Indigestion and Constipation Being and Gaining Infant Feeding Instructions for the Treatment of D Feminine Hygiene and The Care of the Hair and Skin.
A collection of verses and a humorous anecdote about money and budgeting. The piece blends a moral call to help friends with light humor about domestic accounting and its consequences. The humor centers on a husband and wife keeping ledgers of income and expenses.
The column surveys wartime entertainment notes at Koko and Broadway, poking at vaudeville and stage acts. It covers a mix of reviews, previews, and media commentary featuring actors, writers, and industry gossip from mid‑1930s show business.
A page shows a note in a delicate feminine script reading Spent it all. A contrasting line cites a Chinese proverb about a man’s life and the anxiety he bears beyond years. The passage contrasts personal struggle with reflective wisdom.
A family scene unfolds as Angus gifts a ticket to a conjuring show prompting playful dialogue about a trick with flour and eggs. A girl in a nursery explains why Tommy cannot peek at her in a nightie, then reveals she has removed hers.
A reflective quote notes life as a stage where the audience applauds while stage hands see the farce. A camouflaged residence rouses humor as the landlord cannot locate the house, illustrating covert living tricks and self deception.
A collage of remarks from writers critics and performers in which C Dowdey Meyer Berger C Henry Bob Hope John Erskine Sibelius Rachel Field W F Riley Johnson Ludlam Hawkins and Willard Keefe appear. The lines mix metaphor humor ambition and critique in brief aphorisms and character sketches.
Associate Justice Frank Murphy of the U S Supreme Court, now a lieutenant colonel in the Army, began intensive training at Fort Benning Georgia. He is on leave from the Supreme Court and will work in the office of General George C Marshall, Chief of Staff, during this assignment.
A. J. Malchar of Albuquerque woke to find another man in his bed. Believing him to be a coworker, Malchar moved over and slept on. Morning revealed a missing $40 from Malchar’s billfold and the visitor gone.
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