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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1939
Page
4
A handwritten miscellany blends Bible verse and local politics. The column notes support for the Morgan County jail funding, praises Triple A farm payments, recalls historical property holdings by L and N, and touts the Morgan County Tubercular Sanitarium. Civic groups are urged to consider extra dollars carefully.
Director Chris Sherlock of the state highway department notes major Bee Line straightening advances. A new Warrior River bridge and the Birmingham approach aid progress as crews move northward toward Birmingham, aiming to keep the Bee Line competitive with newer highways.
Raymond Clapper, longtime columnist, advocates against a Roosevelt third term at a New York publishing dinner. He warns of bitter campaigns, internal warfare, and possible loss of reforms if Roosevelt runs and loses, praising Cordell Hull as a potential Democratic candidate.
Montgomery boasts of selling street paying bonds at four percent, the lowest interest cost in the city. The Kiwanis Club shifts to hog farming with 16 farm boys selected to receive a purebred gift and return the best of each litter to another boy, supervised by the farm agent's office, aiming to boost Morgan County hog numbers and ease farm mortgages.
The tale recalls Tony Galento’s string of misfortunes before facing Joe Louis, including illnesses and a near fatal pneumonia scare, an automobile crash that left him shaken though uninjured, and past hardships contrasted with Tunney’s safe plane landing before a Dempsey engagement.
Washington reports Henry Wallace the agriculture secretary quietly outflanked Roosevelt Hull Morgenthau and a Congress majority to push a cotton export subsidy. He plans to pay Britain extra cotton under a barter arrangement while unloading surplus stock, with La Guardia and O Neal lobbying to secure votes.
A reader asked about lisping origins and cures. Dr. Clendening outlines paralalia types rhotacism lamb doctism and sigmaticm and notes hearing sight and training influence. He stresses early parental intervention and differentiates negligent from neurotic lisps with emphasis on psycho social factors.
A vintage humor piece portrays office life and dating banter with patter on patience, opportunity, and fashionable hats. Short quips reveal witty exchanges among businessmen, wives, and clerks in a lighthearted urban vignette.
A discussion questions whether Mr Wallace should receive the invisible diamond studded heavyweight championship belt funded by subsidies and likens it to Nazi practices. The tone debates entitlement and the use of money to back a title claim.
The reply urges a person not to begin smoking and equates it with avoiding any habit. It notes smoking may not be markedly injurious to health but will harm the pocketbook and time.
Readers can obtain seven pamphlets by sending 10 cents per title and a self addressed stamped envelope to Dr Logan Clendening care of this paper. The topics include Three Weeks Reducing Diet Indigestion and Constipation Reducing and Gaining Infant Feeding Instructions for the Treatment of Diabetes Feminine Hygiene and The Care of the Hair and Skin.
A series of blunt aphorisms argue that audacity shapes men as stepfather to success, noting men differ yet husbands resemble, tall individuals face criticism, love outpaces respect, and men prefer humor about wit to folly.
Mrs Junewed asks if admiration will persist with age. Mr Junewed replies that grandmothers today look stylish like anyone, signaling playful couple dynamics about aging and fashion.
A man plans to smoke eight cigars in one evening and then attribute his next day's sickness to a ripe alive eaten for dinner as an excuse.
A hotel guest in a Southern state is awakened by a knock to receive a telegram. A colored boy delivers it on a tray, responding to the guest’s request to slide it under the door. The scene captures racial language and era-specific service dynamics.
A terse proverb about restraint opens with a quip on air mindedness and secrecy. The text then shifts to a cryptic remark about an 18 year old woman labeled Sally who has supposedly aligned with two Yale seniors a broker a barber and a lawyer.
The daily sermonette recounts Dr. Mark Terrell describing a pigeon caught in a storm. The bird rises above the tempest to return home, illustrating how wisdom helps one navigate life without getting trapped by hardships.
Walter Winchell on Broadway surveys recent Broadway activity from a cub reporter view. It covers a San Francisco Fair revue seen as tepid, criticism invoking Ziegfeld, horse betting cautions from Jimmy Dorsey, and notes on the Federal Theater Project and Ripley’s Odditorium. It highlights exiled Austrian actors in the From Vienna revue honoring Jura Soyfer who died in a concentration camp.
A reminiscence of witty lines from past newspapers. W L Lawrence covered the Beaux Arts Ball with a misprint word immortal. Richard S Davis wrote of Gertrude Stein and Emil. Bugs Baer cited Ping Bodie. Dan Parker quipped on smooth talkers. Steve Trumbull reported Franklin Pierce McCall’s kidnap case with a sharp critique of life’s final act.
Allan Keller credits nimble wordplay as amateur radio’s birth, comparing early humor to Joe Cook's infernal machines. Ken Crawford’s Washington to Philadelphia Record lead notes the Supreme Court ruling that Mayor Hague is not the law, while Eddie Duchin’s plans unfold in scattered reports.
A sermon-style reflection urges daily study of God's Word and the laws of nature to gain wisdom. It cites scriptural guidance to search the scriptures for eternal life and notes that true wisdom comes from study and prayer. The piece emphasizes an receptive mind and continual searching for divine insight.
The League of Nations health organization runs a smallpox brigade to China and a typhus squad to Spain, showing effectiveness in disease control though critics question its broader influence. The article notes Congressmen who opposed actors now viewing the Will Rogers statue in the Capitol rotunda.
A stranger barged into the editorial rooms before a change of publishers and claimed to have owned the paper, saying he knew Oswald Garrison Villard who once owned the publication. The staff reacted with alarm as the intruder sought the publisher's office.
The note captures a playful exchange among Fairgoers praising the new structures. A Sweet Young Thing mistakes the Trylon and Ferris Wheel for the Trylon and Periscope, drawing a corrective quip from her friend about the correct names and references.
The executive reportedly drew negative press after once acting hoity-toity toward reporters who cover his union regularly. Reporters recall waiting long for access as press dynamics play out. Newspaper veterans compare reporters to those who sit by an open window with flowers, noting the public passersby and the evolving press relationship.
J B Bradford spends vacation in Atlanta with relatives and friends. Mrs B F Martin shows improvement at Benevolent hospital. Mrs W W Dinsmore and two daughters return from Inverness Alabama. Mrs Frank P Lide returns from Birmingham visiting relatives. Rob and Julia Wert Hildreth plan a trip to visit their aunt in Des Moines Iowa.
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