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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1950
Page
18
A faded collage of recipe titles and comic vignettes opens with cakes and fruits then shifts to a sea voyage family scene and a film star exchange. Witty lines poke at marriage home life and a doctor punchline about counting sheep.
A vintage style health blurb touts Doan's Pills as a mild diuretic to ease backache and frequent urination linked to age stress and cold exposure. It claims widespread success over 50 years and urges readers to get Doan's Pills today.
Mr and Mrs Milford Pylant Barbara of Hartselle Mrs Belle Hill and Mrs Floyd Hill were guests of Mr and Mrs Tass Jacobs Sunday afternoon. Claude Hyde and son William Neal hosted Sun day dinner with Frances Cole Boland family and Harald Cole and girls. Everyone invited to Speake school ball game on July 4 with cold drinks and candy. Lowell Cole family attended Claude Hyde's. O D Sewell are proud parents of a baby girl born last week at Dr Craigs clinic in Moulton. Friends of Erma McKay lament her hospitalization in Moulton and poor condition. Claude Hyde and family visits noted.
A collection of short snippets features a boy drawing a live horse for a skeptical observer, a druggist’s stock of medicine, a wary father, and jokes about money, friendship, and marriage. It includes a magistrate in London and a Pea Ridge character claiming health beats wealth, ending with a wink at being alive and busted.
A mythic chase is reframed as a humorous tale where Apollo escapes a pursuing nymph who becomes a tree while the speaker notes their own pursued targets always become a night club.
A quip contrasts acquaintances with friends noting you borrow from them but do not lead to, followed by a comic exchange about talking to animals and approaching a skunk to ask its motive.
Billy Little, 13, died in a motorcycle automobile collision on Birmingham Southside last night. Passenger on the motorcycle, he was killed. his companion Reese Shaw, 19, escaped with minor injuries. This marks the 18th Birmingham traffic death this year.
Lawrence County notes a Saturday ball game between Speake and Wolf Springs plus a July 4 Speake team picnic. Local visits include Cecil Hampton and daughter Bet tie Sue with their mother Bettie Hampton and John Lee Speake of Birmingham visiting Charles Speake.
Little was the son of Mrs. W. E. Burbank and the late Pete Little, longtime photographer for the Birmingham News.
In East Germany the Volkskammer, meeting in East Berlin, reports 12 sessions with 27 laws and three resolutions passed unanimously. Non communists among 330 deputies might challenge the record if a secret ballot were allowed. they vote by show of hands to uphold the regime’s claimed national interest.
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