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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1933
Page
4
Mrs Ed Mason announces the marriage of daughter Geneva Frances Mason to Carl Chester Kilgore performed on Thursday March 9 Friends extend best wishes. Decatur Garden Club to sponsor Spring Clean-up campaign urges citizen cooperation to beautify and reduce epidemics.
An old advertisement touts Blue Star Ointment as a cure for itching rashes tetter and footworm claiming it melts in and kills germs. The copy stresses fast relief and urges purchase despite vague scientific support.
Mr and Mrs Owen Wise spent the weekend with relatives in Scottsboro Ala. Miss Martha Frances Kilgree is ill with scarlet fever at East Church street. B A R E meets Tuesday at 7 30 p m at 203 East Vine street. Mrs Patty McWray leaves for Birmingham on business. Roy Fite of Birmingham attends funeral of his brother Fred Patterson. Walter H Todd Sr and family return from Washington and Baltimore after ten days. he is sick at home. Miss Alice Gooch visits J T Rainey. Mrs W D Speakers improving but bedridden on Johnston street. Mrs C A Edwards and Cecil return from Birmingham. Mr and Mrs S H Robertson visit relatives. Leonard Robertson and others motor to Hartselle to be present.
Ann Harding and Leslie Howard headline The Animal Kingdom at the Princess theater today and Tuesday, probing marriage and love in a sophisticated Phillip Barry comedy drama. The cast includes Myrna Loy as Cecilia and Daisy Sage as the other woman, with supporting local notices and society items interwoven.
Fashion note advertises pattern 2573 for sizes 12 to 20 with a cotton frock design featuring puffed sleeves and a small collar. Instructions, yardage, and ordering details are given, plus a catalog offer offering 82 pages of Anne Adams models and Christmas sewing ideas. Catalog and pattern prices listed.
Tom Simpson of Moulton Route 3 died Saturday at 11 AM at his residence. He was 44 and survived by his wife a daughter Eugenia two sons Frank and Oliver two brothers R E Simpson of Moulton and J P Simpson of Hartselle. Services were held Sunday.
At 1 o clock Rev B Byers officiated a service at the residence with interment in Quinns cemetery. Pallbearers named were Drew Cantrell Riley Allred Percy Allred Lawrence Woodard William Woodard and Bob Lackey.
Ted Sheppard returned at noon today to the Veterans' Hospital in Tuscaloosa where he is receiving treatment.
The Goodwyn income tax amendment would tax individuals over 1500 single and 3000 married with rates from 1 to 6 percent, effective 1933 incomes and due 1934. A 5 percent corporate tax and a sales tax battle loom as lawmakers debate exemptions and passage timelines.
W. L. Adams suffered heart irregularities after meals due to abdominal gas. Adlerika relieved his gas, enabling him to eat freely without discomfort. Caddell Drug Co. advertising content included.
A sermon contends covetousness underpins all sins and wars. It cites Ahab and Naboth's vineyard, murder sparked by greed, and the misery of those who hoard wealth, urging that wealth cannot follow us after death.
New MELLO-GLO face powder reproduces the bloom of youth and hides fine lines. It spreads smoothly and stays on longer, preventing shiny noses and a pasty look. Marketed as purest thanks to a new French process, it comes in 50c and 100c tax free ad quantities.
A sermon warns that covetousness fuels profanity and Sabbath desecration, linking the sin to all others per Biblical references from Jesus, Paul, James, and Peter. It urges contentment in God, contrasts wealth with spiritual joy, and promises to address the eleventh commandment next week.
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