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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1949
Page
4
A local grocer reports customers shifting to Colonial coffee praising flavor. Blind tests by Papert cofple testers crown Colonial first in flavor and quality due to Antigua beans. Consumers are urged to ask their grocer for Colonial today.
A guidance piece urges women to balance beauty efforts beyond cosmetics by caring for scalp hair nails hands and feet. It emphasizes daily exercise adequate sleep good eating and outdoor time to preserve a youthful neat figure and radiant complexion rather than relying on perfumes or partial routines.
The Wesleyan Service Guild of Central Methodist Church held a Monday evening meeting at 7:30 in the church parlor. Miss Cleo Levin was elected president and opened with the Guild ritual. The program titled Our Pledge featured a playlet The Voice Of The Nations and guests included Mrs Gingrich of Hawaii. Social hour followed with punch and cake amid crystal candlebrushed lighting. Delano Park hosted the annual ice cream Supper of the Decatur Civinettes. spouses and children attended.
Wishes and iced drinks were served picnic style by hostesses Mrs. Robert Hutson chairman Mrs. Euell Briscoe Mrs. William Chenault Mrs. Wallace Blackwell and Mrs. C. B. Kenton On this occasion Mrs. Floyd Sherrod president of the club presented to Mrs. R. V. Roser past junior president a silver gift on behalf of the memberships Mrs. Roser expressed appreciation and wished the club success for the coming year.
Mrs L H Ogle and family plan a summer in Gulfshores Alabama. Students from Judson College and Alabama College return home after Student Week at Ridgecrest North Carolina. Numerous relatives visit for Cole Holesapple funeral. Pearces welcome a baby son Henon Wiley Pearce Jr at Kings Daughters Hospital. Other readers head to Skyline Ranch Camp Montevallo and Music Convention in Montevallo.
A letter to Dorothy Dix compares two wives: one virtuous yet quarrelsome and domineering, the other poor at housekeeping, alluring to men, and indulging in mild flirtations. The reader seeks judgment on which wife embodies the greater fault.
Mrs Arendale of Memphis praises New Perk for saving pennies and delivering whiter washes. She says she saves up to one third on each load and plans to keep Perk as her favorite laundry product, noting its alleged whitening and stain removal effects.
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