Peers Club Dance Highlights Summer Mixer at Valley Club
The Peers Club held its summer dance Friday night the 18th at Valley Country Club with the Lead Out dance led by outgoing president Guy Blackwell and president Bobby Anderson with escorts Miss Kathryn Boswell and Miss Evelyn Green. A postdance intermission party was hosted by Tommy Carson on Ferry Street with many members and guests from Athens Madison Decatur and Florence in attendance.
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Peers Club
the Valley Country Club
Guy Blackwell
Kathryn Boswell
Bobby Anderson
Evelyn Green
Tommy Carson
Ferry Street
Boswell
Jimmy Adcock
Betty Roper
Athens
Foster Bailey
Johnny Bronaugh
Madison
Julian Bibb, Jr
Marjorie Phinizy
Helen Mae Brewer
Billy Duncan
Mary Kate Garth
Roy Fite, Jr
Peggy Brown
Bob Hunter
Katherine Nelson
Charles Sherman
Frances Cowden
Jack McLaughlin
Anne Johnson
Judson Pheney
Mary Dean French
Billy Sittason
Edith Kloepfer
Clifford Smith
Ellie Richardson
Harry Sunderland
Caroline Barfield
Fred Trimble
Esther Lee Sherrod
Jack Tankersley
Jane Harris
Charles Wade
Betsy Townsend
al Wilson
Elinor Greer
Pat Worrell
Susan Bibb
Ray Childs
Harold Smith
Decantr
Huntsville
Florence
Miss Frank Ragin King to Visit Before New Orleans Trip
Miss Frank Ragin King of Huntsville will visit briefly with Miss Margaret Ann Rogers en route to New Orleans to see her mother Mrs. Carlton King. Other notes report hospital updates, visits, and travel among Birmingham area residents.
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Frank Ragin King
Huntsville
Margaret Ann Rogers
New Orleans
Carlton King
H. H. McConnell
Dallas
Texas
Birmingham
J. R. Nicholson
Jennie Davidson
Mt View Community Notes from June Burials and Visits
Local residents attended the burial of Arch Tapscott at Gum Springs on Sunday. Rev. Toon preached at Mt View. Families from Falkville Decatur and nearby towns visited relatives here. Notices mention illness malaria chills and various visits. a stray aside notes coffee bean color.
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Arch Tapscott
Gum Springs
Toon
Decatur
Mt. View Church
Fred Robinson
Ruth
Falkville
Ala
W. O. Clark
Harry Lawrence
Geraldine
Curtis Lawrence
Mt. View
Elbert Baker
Lem Turney
J. C. Sparks
Huntsville
CCC
Otis Harris
Susie Lawrence
Greenbriar
Grady Sigars
Hartselle
Cecil Ward
Willie Black
Cullman
Nellodine
Clark
Roy Glasscock
Linndsey
Pattern 4604 Anne Adams Dress Pattern
Anne Adams Pattern 4604 offers a double use daytime dress with optional ankle-length skirt for summer or graduation. Simple, inexpensive fabrics suit both versions, with easy-to-follow instructions and dressy bodice details. Pattern available in girls and junior sizes 6 to 14. book sold separately for 15 cents.
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Anne Adams
Siummer
Decatur Daily
Pattern Department
17Th St
New York
Decatur’s Bold Naval Stand and Tragic Duel Fatal 1820
The article recounts Stephen Decatur’s audacious actions against a British blockade off Algiers and his later acquittal after a costly ship surrender. It covers the Chesapeake Leopard incident involving James Barron, Decatur’s opposition to Barron’s navy reentry, and Decatur’s duel where he died in 1820 at age 41, buried at St. Paul’s Churchyard in Philadelphia. President Mon-
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Algiers
United States
Decatur
Stephen Decatur
James Barron
Barron
Chesapeake
Hampton Roads
England
America
Navy
Decaturs
Barton
St. Oon
Philadelphia
Mon
May births outpace deaths in Morgan county records
In Morgan county during May, births totaled 76 and deaths 54, a margin of 22. White births included 30 males and 29 females with two male and two female births noted as well. White deaths were 26 males and 23 females, while Negro births recorded seven males and five females with one alert birth, a male, and deaths included one Negro male and four Negro females.
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Morgan County
Former Pitcher Visits Brother in Chicago
Carl Thomas of Chicago visits his brother Rutledge Thomas. The former pitcher played years ago for New Orleans in the Southern league Decatur and Terre Haute in the Three-Eye league and St Paul in the American Association.
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Carl Thomas
Chicago
Rutledge
Thomas
New Orleans
Decatur and
Terre Haute
St. Paul
Mr. Thomas
Mirror Needed for Fort Stephen Decatur Ladies Room
Members of the American Legion post here seek a donated mirror for the Fort Stephen Decatur ladies dressing room. The mirror should be at least five feet long and 30 inches wide. Those with such a mirror are asked to contact Garner Pride.
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American Legion
Fort Stephen Decatur
Garner
Gregory warns Alabama farmers on feed crops
In Auburn on June 25 agronomist W H Gregory of the state extension service cautioned Alabama farmers they have not planted enough feed crops to cover stock needs. He noted ample time remains to grow winter feed. American Legion Post 15 will name Decatur’s new armory honoring the city's namesake Stephen Decatur.
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Auburn
Ala
W. H. Gregory
State Extension Service Agronomist
Alabama
Joe
United States
Decatur
Stephen Decatur
American Legion Post 15
New Bath Tub Exercises For Hot Weather
A Central Press Beauty column proposes a cooling skinny dip style routine. Perform in tepid water then shower gradually cooling from warm to cool. Sit cross legged in tub, turn sidewise, bend right and left until elbows touch tub bottom, ten repetitions each side.
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Juliet Shelby
Central Press
Tub exercises for shaping thighs and rear in home routine
A reader guidance piece describes three exercises using a tub for leg and back work. The bicycle motion with alternate legs, a semi lying position, and a knee to chin shuffle aim to firm thighs and reduce fat. Finish with tepid and cool showers for freshness.
Perfume Use Soothes Nerves After Dinner Among Asiatics
Many Asiatics inhale their favorite perfume after dinner to quiet their nerves and aid digestion. The practice reflects cultural habits in a postprandial routine.
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Miss Malone
Marge Penick Jones
Jane Ma
T. M. Jones, Jr
First Methodist
J. E. Moody
Reed Rogers
John McGehee
Duncan
A. A. Almand
Westminster Presbyterian Auxiliary
Westminster Presbyterian Church
Central Baptist W. M
John Wiles
Circle
Peebles Apartments
George Morris
East Moulton Street
Harry Higdon
Grant Street
Elbert Weaver
Fourth Avenue
Guy Pettey
Mary D. Simpson
Central M. E
Central Methodist Circle One
M. A. Leopard
Seventh Avenue West
Marion Vickrey
Circle Three
City Mission Board
Central Methodist Church
Central Methodist Womans Missionary Society
Miss Patterson
Miss Neville
Emily Neville
Wilma Jane Patterson
John Patterson
Bridgers
Jean Humphrey
Helen Rauschenberg
Gordon Sherard
Katherine Ivy
Claudia Thombs
Evelyn Lee
Elizabeth Neville
Sherard
Miss Rauschenberg
W. FE. Steed
R. L. Maury
Fred Rost
Tenth Avenue South
The
Benevolent Society Hospital
William Simmons
Herman Whaley
Dorothy Whaley
Bishop Carpenter
Nell Bond
Taylorsville
J. R. Smiley
Gus Cocke
Kentucky
Mattie Eva Nelson
Harlow Scruggs
Danville Road
Penney’s
Caddell Drug CO
Charles Lawrence
Hartselle, Ala
Goofy
Stan Laurel
Oliver Hardy
Della Lind
Eric Blore
Walter Woolf King
Rhythm
Joe Penner
Lucille Ball
Richard Lane
June Travis
Fritz Feld
Tom Kennedy
Dorothy Lamour Ray Mill
Lynne Overman
Dorothy Howe
J. Carrol Naish
Moth
Flame
the Three
Bob Livingston
Stony Brooke
Ray Corrigan
Tucson Smith
Max Terhune As
Lullaby Joslin
Charlie Chan
Monte Carlo
Warner Oland
Move’s Beauty Shop
Goidel
CREA
Armory
FT. Stephen Decatur
Gregory
Paul Revere
Apollos Rivoire
Isle of
Guernsey
English Channel
Wallace Ford
Shanghai
Capitol
Priscilla Lawson
Tim McCoy
Warner Bros
Pat O'Brien
Joan Blondell
Margaret Lindsay
Nigel
Lulu
Honolulu
Bing Crosby
Bob Burns
Martha Raye
Bandal
Alibi
Whitney Bourn
Johnny Mack Brown
Hopalong Cassidy
William Boyd
Uesday
Empire Grill
Dr. Rhythm
Erin VA
Te Heine Mary AL Sue WY
Bing
Mary Carlisle
Bee Lillie
Cit
John Litel
Ann Sheridan
MO Lee le
Robert Benchley
Starsi
Shirley Mple
Rebecca
Sunnybrook Farm
Streamlined Radio Center News
Randolph Scott
Jack Haley
Gloria Stuart
Phyllis-Brooks
Helen Westley
Slim Summerville
Bill Robinson
Raymond Scott
Alan Dinehart
Edward Bromberg
20Th Century Fox
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