Verse for a Book Plate by Miriam Vaughan Glenn
Thoughtful verse noting a book as a friend. The piece recalls a literary club and social gatherings with notes on meetings at Mrs. Morris Thornton's home and other community events and engagements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miriam Vaughan Glenn
End
Inter-Se Club
Inter Se, & Literary Club
Morris Thornton
Mason Pearce
Local residents tale of visits and travels
Several families and individuals are listed as returning from trips or visiting relatives in cities such as Chattanooga Opelika Memphis Birmingham Fayetteville Athens Monteagle and Florence. Mentions include weddings illnesses hospital stays and motor trips with notes on guests hosts and caregivers.
Young prodigy Betty Ford achieves feats at seventeen
In six years the bright San Francisco girl Betty Ford progressed from grammar school through high school and Stanford University. At seventeen she accomplished what normally takes much longer, reflecting early scholarly talent and rapid study.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Betty Ford
San Francisco
Stanford University
Rev Pickens to Return Saturday at Southside Baptist
Rev J D Pickens pastor of the Southside Baptist church is expected to return today from Mentone where he has been attending a young peoples meeting. He will fill his pulpit at both regular hours Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. D. Pickens
Southside Baptist Church
Mentone
Young Peoples
Morton Downey Broadway Star Transitions to Talking Screen
Morton Downey, Broadway’s famed “Golden Voiced Tenor,” has starred in Pathe’s “Mother’s Boy” as lead in a full length all singing and all talking musical. A discovery of Paul Whiteman, Downey rose from Club Casanova to film with prior roles in “Syncopation.” He was born in Brooklyn and recently married Barbara Bennett.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orton Downey
Pathe
Sound Studios, Inc
New York
Robert T. Kane
Downey
Casanova
John McCormack
Victor
RKO
Gene Markey
Paul Whiteman
Whiteman
Europe
London
Paris
Brooklyn
N. Y
Jimmie”* Hagan
Tammany Leader
Barbara Bennett
Richard Bennett
Regional visitors fill list of Huntsville residents
Huntsville relatives host extended guests from Chattanooga Nashville Pulaski and Birmingham as locals welcome families visiting Rev J D Wallace Miss Elizabeth Dunlap and others plan weekend stays while Donald Ligon prepares to return to Birmingham after a visit with the Garnetts and Stinsons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Belle Wallace
Chattanooga, Tenn
Rev
J.D. Wallace
Better Average Made This Year In The Valley
The Tennessee Valley laboratory reports a higher average this year due to more specimens examined. Director Dr. A J Peralto stresses the rise reflects increased testing rather than more illness in the Valley.
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Tennessee Valley Laboratory
A. J. Peralto
Cullman Visitors Arrive and Planned Summer Trips
Of Cullman will arrive Sunday to visit Mrs. J. H. Alexander. J. R. Gibson and two children Louene and Byron of Cullman will arrive Sunday to visit J. R. Gibson. Mrs. Clifton Almon will return from Nashville Saturday. Miss Mildred Kelly will leave Monday for two weeks visiting relatives in Mt Hope Alabama. Mr. and Mrs. Frank B. Neeley of Monroe Louisiana are expected about the first of July to be guests of Mrs. Neeley's mother Mrs. James A. Foster.
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First
Methodist Woman's Missionary 6 Society
W. H. Ritter
A. F. Houston
Co. O. King
James Duncan
Arwin Draper
Beulah Clarke
James
B. Pennington
Kings Memorial Church
Chattanooga
Tenn
R. E. Greer
Clinton
Kile Cregger
Clifford Polk
Anna Lee Wright
Robert Clarke
University of Tennessee
Jefferson State School
Robert L. Clarke
W. L. King
Pennington
Tennessee Furniture Co
Ten
Irene
Bobby Smith
Mrs. Pred Simmons, Jr
Birmingham
H. H. McConnell
J. R. Nicholson
Jenny Davidson
Dallas
Texas
H. G. Carlin
Mrs. Carlin
Anniston
W. W. McBride
Florida
Cuba
Haleyville
Mr. McBride
Elizabeth Dunlap
Pulaski, Tenn
J. H. Alexander
Hartselle
Cullman
Louene
Byron
J. R. Gibson
Mildred Kelly
Mt. Hope
Ala
Frank B. Neeley
Monroe, la
Neeley
James A. Foster
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Herman Whaley
Grant Street
Westminster
Westminster Woman's Auxiliary
T. M. Harvey
Mr. Buchanan
Little Rock
Buchanan
Howard Johnson
Ninth Avenue
West
Loraine Winton
Lois Gray
Dorothy Frazier
Katherine McRae
Dorothy Rasch
Mildred Posey
Eunice Garrett
Celesta
Elizabeth Hokett
Mary
Georgiana Warrick
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Pack Pate
Robert Hobbs
Aron Montgomery
Clarence Waites
Fred Webster
Harold Watkins
Addison Poole
Walter Johnson
Hoyt Winton
Garland Lovelady
M. A
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Maud Seibert
J. F. McClary
Gussie Bell
S. H. Bradley
Elsie Burt
Edna Roger
Bissie Wait
Ada McClary
Canal Street Rock Club
J. P. Brock
Will Wyker
James Johnson
Brock
Society of Central Methodist
J. D. Ligon
Missionary Society of the Central Methodist Church
Zeno Bailey
Silver Cross
Phillip Humphrey
Corinne Long Griffin
Frederick W. Smith
Kathryn
James Emmett McClary
Pennington-Clarke
Baptist Missionary Society
Central Baptist Church
C. W. Wilson
Seventh Avenue
George Phillips
West Moulton Street
W. R. Speer
East Ellis Street
E. H. Nelson
Sherman Street
Spurgeon Speer
Carl Lee
Eighth Avenue
North
Swan Lake
J. Ball
J. A. MceGwier
Mildred Gill
W.C.T.U
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
Decatur
W. B. Robertson
Miss Greendyke
R. L. Clarke
Sarah Wilks
Opelika
Mary Katherine Smither
W. P. Wilks
Opelika, Ala
J. F. Smither
T. C.almon
Memphis
George C. Almon
F. P. Lide
Mr. Morris
Joe Moore
C. D. Feigley
Athens
Fayetteville, Tenn
Joe Willerford
The
Benevolent Hospital
G. W. Graff
Huntsville
Alabama Power Co
Cecil Kirkpatrick
L Nichols
Bonnie Deaton
Atlanta
Rhea Lide Carson
S. D. Brock
Morrow
McNeill Apartments
W. G. Gardner
Glenn
Annie Gardner
Annie Mae Gardner
T. M. Davidson
Ed Kennedy
Griffin, Ga
Walter Beattie
Charlotte, N. C
James Nicholson
T. W. Wert
A Gee
James Peck
F. A. Bennett
A. A. Hargrove
R. H. McGwier
W. E. Hargrove
Monteagle
E. O. Hussey
Gasden, Ala
Garner Pride
Emil Buettner
Herbert Ha
Mrs. J. A. McBride
Lady Ruth
Sarah Lou Hunter
Florence
J. E. Yarbrough
Margaret Ann
Mary Evelyn
Louisville
Mrs. Johnson Stockton
J. E. Kimbrough
Mrs. M. E. Weller
Brother
W. E. Howe
F. E. Taylor
Harry and
Mary Alice
Charlotte Tenn
W. E
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Associated Press
Alton L. Miller
Boston
Northern Baptists
Denver
David Jones Evans
Kansas City
Malone Pool
Strand—Cullman
Monte Blue
Lois Wilson
Vitaphone
South Pole
Ice Fields
Thur
Jack Holt
Rev. Pickens
Morton Downey
Broadway
Golden
Howe
Felix McClain
Donald
City
J. H. Head and Family
F. M. Hamilton
Donald Ligon
Mrs. S. N. Garnett
Evelyn Sivey
Marian Robinson
Marian, Jr
W. R. Griffith
William, Jr
Bank Street
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the Owl Drug Co. Inc
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Clifton Almon
Nashville
Princess
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Cowboy King
Ine
Aesop’s Fables
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Warriors
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