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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1939
Page
4
A compact meditation piece notes March activity on public health and social issues. It cites Mosquito control, mumps age cases, Alabama and Tennessee political shifts, labor law concerns, garbage disposal enforcement, liquor policy trends, and farm market focus for Alabama's farmers and businesspeople.
The article explains Dixon’s tax equalization as a tool to cover periodic governmental emergencies amid Alabama’s population growth. It argues that public services require payment and prudent governance, with debt reduction starting under the Dixon administration.
Dixon found Mobile free port earned 1.32 dollars against an outlay of 59 632 during its operation. He aims to abolish the port and, after four years, to establish a semblance of business in state government by paying capable men more, firing the inefficient, and reducing state employees.
A reflective message notes a 1938 drop in automobile deaths and cites growing driver responsibility. It urges Decatur and Morgan County residents to adopt self-reliant actions to improve the town’s fortunes and foresees continuing positive outcomes.
Fine Start The Daily reports progress toward WPA funded expansion of Benevolent hospital to serve the negro population. Benevolent Society offers to deed property to the city to obtain public funds, with hospital board and women of the society collaborating for broader future service.
Georgia officers and national officials debate next steps after a local option prohibition election ends in a tie. Prohibitionists say law forbids another vote for two years. vets argue a new test can occur immediately. The Daily recalls a similar names change vote in New Decatur to Morgan City that yielded no change, then Albany later passed by a majority.
The House approved adding several hundred fighting planes to the army, despite previously refusing dredging funds for Guam harbor. Supporters argued Guam naval projects mattered for defense, while opponents questioned the military value. A congressional leader noted that even a small dredging sum might have won approval.
Washington reports Harold Ickes and Homer Cummings debated the dam’s name in 1935. Cummings notes acts refer to Hoover dam and that no official rename occurred. The piece adds a survey of advisers’ faiths amid anti semitic rumors and lists 19 near president’s car with varied denominations.
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The article outlines frequent knee injuries and misleading water on the knee diagnoses. It explains ligament strains, meniscal dislocations causing locked knee, bursitis such as housemaid's knee and Baker's cyst, and rare bleeding in the joint as in hemophilia, with typical treatments and outcomes.
Sermonette emphasizes God as author of salvation and Jesus as the only savior. It cites verses from Isa 45 22 Gen 3 16 John 3 16 Eph 2 5 Rom 8 16 Acts 10 34 Matt 28 19 1 John 5 12 and Rev 22 17 to urge faith in Christ for eternal life and invite all to come to the water of life.
The piece notes chronic constipation is complex and mostly psychic. It cites insensitivity of the lower rectum as a dominant cause and suggests early suppositories, plus eating more fruit and vegetables. It adds the only acid forming foods are fats.
A shave of humor follows drivers and car talk with scenes at a curb and a tailing bar. Jubb bargains a car price while the secretary of commerce urges speed over caution. A fast car stalls unexpectedly and a bartender quips about drinking and driving. An undertaker’s recipe mocks reckless highway life with a dark punchline.
Question asks if peanut butter or mineral oil aids bile elimination. Answer states any fat aids bile elimination, while mineral oil does not act this way.
Seven Dr Olendening pamphlets available by mail. Each costs ten cents plus a self addressed stamped envelope with a three cent stamp, sent to Dr in Clendening care of this paper. Titles include Three Weeks Reducing Diet and Infant Feeding among others.
A chaotic roadside scene features a young man unsure of a boy's “gasoline” can and jokes about marriage and pancakes. The dialogue weaves between a gas shortage, a tin car gag, and rapid one liners. The material riffs on purchasing power and foolish authorities with sharp wordplay.
Paola Kansas March 4 Mary Coker a graduate nurse received a telegram announcing she had won another car in a contest after bringing her newly purchased car home from the dealer.
A dense page of Broadway nightlife blurbs notes Vera Zorina and George Balanchine at Sardi's, Mary Martin dining at Leo Lindy’s, Milton Berle laughs, and Walter Winchell style satires. It catalogs social sighting vignettes from New York venues like the St Regis, Casa Manana, and the Riviera, with mentions of actors, writers, and clubs.
A reflective line notes that problems have two sides and no clear bottom. It suggests resilience where defeat feels less bitter if one avoids swallowing it entirely.
The Albany passenger station of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company is renamed Grant Street Station. Mrs. George Clemwill spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Roy Buchanan in Huntsville. Mrs. W. B. Crawford left for Birmingham to visit friends. Mrs. A. T. Hanson recovering after a week illness. Junior Music Study Club meets Saturday at 2:30 with Misses Harriett and Jane Irwin on Canal Street. Miss Margaret Broadus, Randolph Macon College student, at home for vacation.
The amended Plan of Reorganization for Postal Telegraph and Cable Corporation was mailed to all known Bondholders for acceptance under the Bankruptcy Act. It proposes $40 cash per $1,000 bond and securities in new companies, uniting Postal’s cable and radio systems with All America Cables and Radio, Inc. and Sociedad Anonima Radio Argentina. A new corporation will own Postal Land Line System with retained traffic arrangements.
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