Bargain Bride Katharine Waring Havilland TA
Lida schemes to secure Barrett Colvin for her mother Aunt Ella while Elinor fends off her mother and guards her romance with Barrett. Barrett faces Lida and Elinor in a tense drawing room scene as family ambitions collide and a future marriage hangs in the balance.
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Lida
Minor
Elinor
Barry
Barrett Colvin
Miss Sexton
Aunt Ella
the Thropes
Philip Sexton
Bessie Thrope
Barrett
Ella
Bessie
Benson
Mr. Colvin
Oddities and Society Snippets From 1938
Light, humorous items from Lima and Chicago reveal quirky facts and social notes. An oversized egg in Lima weighs nine ounces, while Washington reports the treasury conscience fund at six hundred thousand dollars. A Chicago streetcar plan signals a step against local rackets.
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Lima
Ohio
Chicago
NEA Service, Inc
Fresh Produce and Meats Price List Highlights
A historical price list shows per unit costs for eggs fruits vegetables and meats. Items include sweet potatoes bunches of carrots turnips cabbage and greens with prices per bushel pound or dozen, and meats like native dressed hogs spareribs and backbone with varied per pound rates. Poultry lists hens fryers geese and turkeys with per pound pricing and occasional package deals.
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Butte
Prohibition Backed by Nation's Top Child Welfare Figures
A chorus of leading child welfare workers backs prohibition as a shield for children. Linn C. Drake of Boy Scouts of America and W F Bond of the national council of public instruction cite health, hunger, and poverty reductions. Hull House founder cites improvements despite bootlegging.
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Linn C. Drake
Boy Scouts of America
W. F. Bond
National Council Superintendents Public Instruction
Hull House
Chicago
Repeal Issue Is To Be Debated In Athens
Wets and drys to hold weekly debates on courthouse steps each Saturday afternoon. Young Wall and T. E. Hatchett announce for repeal while C. R. Jones enters to argue for the amendment.
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Athens
Ala
Young Wall
T. E. Hatchett
C. R. Jones
Birmingham Market Report Carries Mixed Farm Prices
Carload hay prices delivered in Johnson and Birmingham mark steady to unchanged with light receipts and slow demand. Grain prices show No 2 white corn and No 2 yellow corn around 62 to 64 cents, oats 41 to 42 cents, with corn and oats steadier to modestly lower. Poultry and egg prices paid to producers by jobbers list varied cents per unit, white eggs 12 to 13 cents, mixed eggs 10 to 10.5 cents, hens and leghorns in 6 to 7 cents range, and roosters 5 cents. Butter fat 17 cents with premium 19 cents. Live cattle and hog prices mix steady with steer and heifer classes in the 2 to 4 percent per pound range, calves and bulls priced, hogs mostly steady with higher just above 4 dollars for top weights. Receipts fair, quality poor, demand fair to good.
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U. 8
Birmingham
Georgia Governor Goes to Court Over Highway Board
Georgia governor seeks court order to justify control of the state highway department under martial law as ousted highway board members push for action. He signed an order directing his appearance at the hearing.
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State Highway Department
Highway Board
Liquor Seizure Report in Athens Shows Youth Arrests
Athens authorities reported Robert Lee Fuell an 18 year old Marshall County resident was driving slowly along Lovers Lane near the agricultural school when liquor seizure by police occurred early Thursday.
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Athens
Ala
Robert Lee Fuell
Marshall County
Lover’s Lane
Sullivan to Return Home Next Week
Mrs. W. A. Sullivan, who has been visiting relatives in Michigan, is expected to return home next week.
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Dante
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Twin Crry Bread Co
Princess Theatre
T. E. Putman
Speake, Warren & Ratliff
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Decatur Daily
Commercial Print Department
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Mountain Lake
N. Y
Washington Dispatch
U. S. Treasury
S “Conscience Fund
J. P. Morgan
Williams
U.s
Arkets
Decatur
Decatur Chamber of Commerce
Der
Cis
Teetotaler
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London
Johnson Hay
U. 6
Timothy
Georgia
EB. L. Evans
Jess Hargrove
SAM_FRANK & MOORE
J.C. Penney
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