State Liquor Stores To Raise Prices For Defense Tax
Alabama state liquor prices will rise July 1 to offset new federal defense taxes. Wilbur Devan says pint increases to one dollar and quart to two dollars. 1.6 ounce miniatures add 1 to 5 cents. floor tax applies to stocks over 100 gallons after July 1. new list to be issued Monday.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
Wilbur Devan
Devan
State Liquor Board
ABC Board
Liquor Board
Devon
SCREWS SEES LEASE LIKELY FOR MONTGOMERY AIRPORT
Col. W P Screws of Montgomery says a lease of the city airport to the army as a training field will be worked out in a day or two. He notes the city has about 450000 invested and must protect it as talks with the War Department resume. The army is forming Montgomery as a southeast pilot training hub.
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Montgomery
Ala
W. P. Screws
Army
Air Corps
War Department
Screws
Platform Lumberjack Politics At 1940 Convention
Philadelphia reports describe the 1940 party platform as a flexible, rubbery document that mixed isolationist leanings with broad principles. Delegates debated Hoover’s speech, foreshadowing tensions as Churchill’s war news sparked spontaneous singing of God Bless America.
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Churchill
Atlantic
America
On Olce
Boy Killed After Bicycle Collision In Montgomery
William Parker aged 9 died from injuries after being struck while riding a bicycle. Police say the car veered off the street to avoid the boy, struck a telephone pole, and wrecked the car. The driver is held on a manslaughter charge.
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Montogmery
Ala
William Parker
Daily Crossword Puzzle Clues
A themed list of crossword clues across and down with definitions for buzz moccasin like shoe rational macaws early Scotland inhabitor and others. Includes entries for various parts of speech and common crossword answers such as hasten, arrowed actors, and plant names.
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Scotland
Victorious Faith Sermon at Baptist Church
Rev L E Toon preached at the Baptist church Sunday afternoon on Victorious Faith to a large congregation. The church invites field missionary Rev Clyde Kienard to begin a vacation bible study the first week in August. Local families and visitors attended and were noted in attendance.
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L. E. Toon
Baptist Church
Clyde Kienard
Cecil Russell
Warrior
C. L. Thompson
Charlie
Betty
Peggy
Dorothy
Neel
Willard Russell
Gail
R. L. Brasseale
Allen Brasseale
Cold Spring
Gordon Francis
Hartselle
Carl Prances
Vincent
Cullman
Carl Francis
Martha Smith
Irene Pettit
Nashville
Amer
Magnola Larancé
War in Balkans and Ukraine Clash Shapes World Power
The piece analyzes Germany’s hunger for Ukraine and Romania’s oil grain ports on the Danube as vital for Berlin. It notes Stalin’s potential realignment of Ukrainian peoples and the strategic risk to Hitler’s plans while mentioning King Carol facing Hungarian and Bulgarian pressure and regional rent ads.
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Ford
Balkans
England
Berlin
Romania
Germany
Danube _s
Black Sea
Reich
Field Marshal
Goering
Hitler
Danube
Rhine
Baltic
Moscow
Constanta
Nazi Fuehrer
Stalin
Bessarabia
Bucovina
Ukraine
Carpatho-Ukraine
Czechoslovakia
Russia
Carol
Hungary
Bulgaria
Ferdinand
Queen Marie
London
Prince Carol
Church Sets Special Day With New Hammond Organ
Sunday at Southside Baptist Church features a first use of a newly installed Hammond electric organ and a Baptistry scene by artist Tennis Odum. The pastor Rev. J A Chambers will present the sixth illustrated sermon in The Prodigal Son series, followed by baptism and special music. Members and nearby worshippers are invited to attend both services.
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Outhside Baptist Church
Odum
Decatur
J. A. Chambers
Census shows population gains for eighth district
Huntsville Alabama June census headquarters report indicates the eight county eighth district gained population over the past decade, Limestone county being the exception with a loss. Largest rise occurred in Jackson county with about five thousand more people. figures for 1990 and 1940 list Limestone Lauderdale Lawrence Colbert Jackson Madison Morgan. census supervisor J K Thompson noted figures are preliminary and subject to revision.
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Huntsville
Ala
Madison
Morgan
Jackson
Colbert
Lawrence
Lawderdale
Limestone
Dist
Jac County
Lauderdale
J. K. Thompson
English paper received in Decatur
Dr. Edwin Wyle received a copy of The Daily Sketch, an English newspaper, the first here in some time due to the war. The issue discusses a blackout for German broadcasts and notes Britain still controls global telegraph wires and can send news and information anywhere.
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Edwin Wyle
Daily Sketch
Great Britain
Britain
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Jennie Lovelady
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Sanders Cortner
Mildred Nebrig
Myrtle Martin
Hugh Strickland
Bertha Echols
Louise Turner
David Speake Warren
James Ratliff
Bill Lindsey
Earl Lee
D. W. Speake
Billie Lee
Sullivan
Mkiin
ST. Joseph
Loyd’s Snus
King Feature Syndicate, Inc
Philadelphia
Edge
Pepper
Hoover
Barnum and Bailey
Herbert Hoover
John Lewis
CIO
Lewis
Roosevelt
National Labor Board
John
Lesby
Alice’ Roosevelt
Longworth
Bob Taft
Taft
Dewey
Dewey and
Willkie
Vandenberg
Wosband
Angel Food
Blackhawk
Yancy
Vaughan Bro
Daily Crossword
Shootingstar
Tibet
Tion
Wither
King Features Syndicate
Morgan County
MT. Tabor
Fuehrer
Russian Ukraine
Pass
Chinatown
Bow Lun Lee
Lewis J Valentine
New York
LAMB
Crowder and
Blackeye
PEAS
Limas
Eet
mTeatel
Acorn
Moulton ST. Market
Chappell's
East Moulton St
Adams & Lee
Lipton
P & G Soap
J. R. Daniels
Insurance and Financing
Walnut St
Deceter
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