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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1935
Page
4
The piece notes optimism for Delano Park improvements if financial aid arrives. It mentions transport issues along the Decatur to Birmingham route with poor driving conditions and a plan for a four lane upgrade. The text reflects AP copy and advertising details from the era.
A brief quip from the Manchester Union jokes about tenure and domestic politics, noting how plans for power change once a wife learns of them. The line reflects humorous social commentary from a period newspaper.
The house completed passage of the revenue bill last week and faces a return from the senate. The Daily bets that house members may hardly recognize their handiwork when it comes back.
The article notes Finland has paid its war debts to the United States and suggests the government deserves consideration for tariff concessions. It highlights Finland as the only debtor among U S allies that fulfilled its financial obligation.
Ewing Y. Mitchell, former assistant secretary of commerce, was terminated after refusing to resign. He pledges to file charges against several administration officials, vowing a new campaign despite likely sparking further controversy and time waste.
The writer questions why supporters of the sedition bill do not include a clear exemption for newspapers. They note an exemption was added in the house but omitted in the senate, asking for the reason behind the removal.
The Alabama state senate defeated the Coleman racing bill as immoral to passage amid an overwhelming vote. In contrast they approved a $2.00 daily salary increase for themselves, defying constitutional objections and prompting sharp public commentary on fitness of measures.
Pilot Wiley Post, famed flier, has tried four times to fly sub aratosphere from the west to the east. the ship Winnie Mae failed him again. He says Winnie Mae is through and will need a new plane for the next attempt to set a new flying mark. Business before sentiment, we assume.
Public appeal from Meridian Mississippi by the Junior Chamber of Commerce to raise about fifty dollars to defray expenses of endurance flight above the airfield. The piece questions why the public should pay and whether the endeavor is amateur or business driven.
A friend argues people should focus on their own affairs rather than public duties. He warns if everyone quits public involvement worthwhile ventures suffer, noting that public progress requires active effort and cooperation beyond private business.
Opinion piece argues a state bill to assume the Alabama Bridge Corporation duties and issue five million dollars in five percent bonds to remove tolls. It urges Decatur leaders to press representatives and the senator to secure repayment of $100,000 paid for Kellar Memorial Bridge and fair treatment for Decatur while freeing other toll bridges.
Column by Arthur Brisbane notes the enduring role of faith in daily life. It contrasts modern religious comfort with speculative future visions and recalls Willie Columbus’s death in a reflective voice.
A five year old New York boy Jackie Kaul is found drowned in the East River after a suspected kidnapping. The piece reflects on faith easing parental grief and uses the case to discuss broader topics from Roosevelt’s economic aims to views on civilization progress, miscarriage of justice in medicine, and social attitudes toward marriage and work.
Dr Logan Clendening recalls Salerno in southern Italy as the cradle of modern hygiene. He notes the Benedictine monastery hospital, herbals, Arab medical influence, and the Salerno medical school which issued licensed degrees. relics include verses urging temperance diet abstinence and quiet. The old springs still serve medicinal uses though the school buildings no longer stand.
A playful dialogue sketches office life and fashion minded practice. A doctor jokes about golfing and sending women to a resort while a young man fears inexperience. A mother predicts Junior’s future as a fingerprint expert from wallpaper touches. Debt is likened to love as easy to enter.
A Wichita telephones a Santa Fe railroad division passenger agent, L. By Smith, asking about standing room fares to California after inquiring about summer rates. Smith replies there are none, and the caller admits only having $15, considering that as a possible cheaper option.
At the first monthly banquet of the Athens Chamber of Commerce in the Ross Hotel Judge A M McConnell named standing committees for the 1935 36 year. Appointments include Industrial committee with N K Bitting and F R Huston. General welfare with D L Rosenau Sr and Jaffe. Highway and transportation with J M Holt and Feigley. Taxation and legislation with R H Walker and Geo C Johnson. Educational with Dr E R Naylor and Amos Clanton. Agricultural with H R Bailey and C W Sarver. Civic improvement with Dr W A Minsch. Publicity with D L Rosenall Jr. and Entertainment with W A.
Six pamphlets listed with topics Indigestion and Constipation Reducing and Gaining Infant Feeding Instructions for the Treatment of Diabetes Feminine Hygiene and The Care of the Hair and Skin available for ten cents each plus a self addressed stamped envelope sent to Dr Logan Clendening care of the paper.
Athens attorney Thomas 8 Woodroof who was seriously injured in a March automobile crash has the plaster cast removed and is allowed short stand and sit periods this week. Doctors expect full recovery to take at least two more months.
Patrolmen Hopkins and Farnsworth rushed to a call and arrived in time to serve as witnesses at the wedding of Dora May Hauser and Francis James Worthen.
Westward Ho golf club directors vote to buy three rickshaws for tired members to rent between shots. They draft ground rules and set puller rates for the new contraptions.
Caughran is named chairman with R H Mc Connell as vice-chairman and Baylis Hightower Hill Hayes on the membership committee. W Van Gilbert chairs the fish hatchery committee with R C Martin as vice-chairman, joined by Harry Kittrell and Allen Beasley. A B Mc Williams leads the third panel with Bruce Nelson as vice-chairman alongside Dr A L Rodgers and Dr D J Wilson.
A farmer explains his sick wife is not coughing but that a chicken house is being built with nails. A friend asks about the wife and the farmer corrects him, then a stray line laments pockets being picked by men despite urging honesty as best policy.
The Caribbean island Curacao, part of the Netherlands since 1634, is famed for its liqueur from orange varieties and Willemstad’s Hollandlike streets. In 1934 the Netherlands issued a stamp marking the 300th anniversary of Curacao’s Dutch accession.
Walter Winchell dissects Broadway chatter naming Czar Landis in a dispute over Alabama Pitts and Cantor rumor origins. The column references theater figures including Eddie Cantor, Frieda Hempel, John Beals, Mary Kirk Brown, Grace Jonas, and Margare t Fishback, noting weddings, operas, and show business gossip across New York and beyond.
A humorous dialogue fragment presents characters in dialect arguing about washing and money, a grocer asking egg colors, and a drill instructor testing a recruit about rifle use and trigger pull. The exchanges highlight misunderstandings and social types in a comic sketch.
The piece questions fair land division and wealth sharing while critiquing entitlement. It discusses mechanization freeing leisure yet demanding sustenance and features exchanges about work, money, and social mores with a playful dialog among characters.
A man advised that a gentleman should seek a lady's consent before taking a cigarette from her case. The guidance emphasizes polite conduct and respect in social smoking etiquette.
An unusual celebration akan take place June 24 when Dillard Collier, a new merchant in Coloma Heights, will mark twenty five years in business with open house for both races. His grocery has grown from a wooden shack to a two story brick building in Athens.
In Boston on June 17 a man named Alex Truskolsky reported his car bumped another vehicle. The woman driver asked for his license, and when he handed over his wallet containing $20 she fled with the wallet and contents.
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