Decatur Community Seeks Growth Through Faith and Industry
Local column extols returning to worship as path to prosperity while urging job growth in manufacturing. Notes Alabama towns like Decatur Hartselle Athens Cullman and Limestone County pursuing road projects and bonds payoffs. Mentions notable figures and a broader call to action against war with emphasis on self sufficiency.
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Decatur
Hartselle
Athens
Cullman
Oulton
Courtland
Reapportionment Debate Links Cotton Policy to Constitution
State lawmakers discuss aligning cotton subsidies with national and world markets. They consider constitutional reapportionment changes to limit the number of representatives for populous counties, while preserving population basis and supporting amendments.
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Alabama
Decatur Markers Sought After Aviator Rescue
A visiting aviator had to perform an emergency landing on the Valley Country Club golf course on a Saturday. The incident prompts a call for clearly visible city markers naming Decatur to help locate the city and possibly save lives.
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Valley Country Club
Decatur
Growth Surges in Tuscaloosa as Projects Expand
The city shows rapid growth with new buildings under construction and recent completions. At the University of Alabama, two million dollars of new projects are underway, alongside developments at Bryce Hospital, the veterans hospital, and other public institutions.
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Tuscaloo
University of Alabama
Bryce Hospital
Veterans Hospital
Tuscaloosa
Inside Washington Views on Hitler Crisis and Political Deals
Washington March 21. Officials say Chamberlain Daladier and Roosevelt sensed Hitler move as Czech fortresses fell. Britain France and the U S maneuver to hurt Germany’s economy before tariffs bite. Gravy bloc in Congress uses votes to push favored projects like a costly national park. Hopkins struggles to appoint a new head of commerce amid rejections.
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Supreme Court nomination could shift balance under Roosevelt
Observers expect William C. Douglas to win Senate confirmation as the fourth vacancy opens the door to a potential Roosevelt majority on the Supreme Court. McReynolds, aged 77, may delay retirement to avoid a future Roosevelt pick.
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Classified Ads Appeal to Households with Phone Ad Taker
The message promotes classifieds as a housewife friendly advertising medium. It directs readers to call 46 and ask for the Ad Taker to place ads.
Anthrax dangers and history from a physician’s view
Dr. Logan Clendening recounts anthrax forms and global prevalence, noting outbreaks linked to shaving brushes and wool handling. He explains malignant pustule and pulmonary forms, treatment with surgical excision and serum, and cites Pasteur’s vaccine work and high fatality in meningitis cases.
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Asia
America
Russian
Siberia
Great Britain
Woolsorter
Hotel Bell Tale and Coffee Prices Recalled
A hotel guest complains a bathroom bell failed to summon a maid. The story juggles humor about misused bells, a coffee price quip, and light banter about money and Reno in a scattered humorous vignette.
Questions and Answers on Impacted Wisdom Teeth
The wisdom teeth are likely to grow in crooked and become impacted if they jam against neighboring teeth during eruption. Removal of an impacted wisdom tooth is often an intricate operation that may be considered major. Wisdom teeth do have roots.
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United States
Hitler
Seven Dr Clendening pamphlets offered by mail
Dr Clendening offers seven pamphlets including Three Weeks Reducing Diet and Infant Feeding. Each pamphlet costs 10 cents plus a self addressed stamped envelope sent to Logan Clenden ing in care of this paper.
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En Logan Clendening
Spring Song on why women clean houses in spring
The piece questions why modern housewives cling to spring cleaning, arguing about seasonal timing and societal notions. It contrasts nature as cruel with human practice and hints at broader debates about cleaning norms and upbringing.
We Are All Human Beans
A classroom joke unfolds as a teacher prompts sentences with beans. The bright boy says My father grows beans and another pupil adds My mother cooks beans. The third student concludes We are all human beans.
I Am Debtor
The sermon recalls Paul's Damascus road conversion and his obligation to spread the gospel. It emphasizes personal experience of Christ as the basis of missions and evangelism, urging believers to feel a duty to share faith.
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Asia
Christ
Scandinavia treasurer reports 98 percent tax payment
In Waupaca Wisconsin on March 21 the village treasurer announces Scandinavia villagers have paid 98 percent of county taxes. Only five taxpayers have not paid and three asked for extensions until July.
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Wis
Scandinavia
Dairy Buer
Walter Winchell on Broadway theater notes dark world stage
Walter Winchell surveys New York theater and radio scenes noting mixed reception to Huey Long style plays and a string of performers and productions. He critiques First American Dictator Tell My Story and Please Mrs Garibaldi while praising The Magic Lanterns Ice Follies and Three Smart Girls Grow Up for audience appeal.
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New York
Nora Bayes
Huey Long
Atkinson
Huey
I Duce
Richard Watts
Garibaldi
Belmont Theatre
John Anderson
the Journal
Drama
la Dunne
Miss Crawford
Durbin
Deanna
Coagney
Czecho-Slovakia
Vincent Sheehan
Notable Local Social Notes From March 21 1927
From The Daily of March 21 1927 Mrs H B Zietler of Mooresville is expected Tuesday to visit her mother Mrs R G Cortner Paintard Beech a Se owanee University student was week end guest here Miss Jane Malone ill at her parents home Joe Weatherly spent week end in Birmingham Little Miss Margaret Ann Rogers injured in a fall is recovering at home R M Winton opens a grocery store on East Moulton Rev R T Tyler of the First Methodist preached at the county jail Sunday afternoon
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Mooresville
R. G. Cortner
Paintard Beech
Sewanee University
Jane Malone
8. B. Malone
East Vine Street
Margaret Ann Rogers
Reed Rogers
R. T. Tyler
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County
Couple Questioned in Dynamite Death Mystery
In cave in Rock Illinois State's Attorney Clarence E Soward said he would question a man and woman held in Saline County jail at Harrisburg in the dynamite death of Earl Austin 46 year old NYA superintendent. The couple Mrs Alice Austin 35 the victim's estranged wife and Theodore Simmons 30 her neighbor were charged jointly with murder.
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Ill
Clarence E. Soward
Saline County
Harrisberg
Earl Austin
NYA
Alice Austin
Theodore Simmons
Canal Project Proposed for Chattahoochee River
Delegates from Georgia Florida and Alabama prepare to present to an army engineers board a $2 000 000 canalization plan proposing a six foot channel on the Chattahoochee River from Columbus Georgia to the Gulf The project has prior approval from Colonel Powell division engineer at New Orleans.
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Nervous robber robs cashier in Bluefield on apologize note
A well dressed young man robbed Virginia Shumaker a 20 year old movie cashier in Bluefield March 21. He apologized claiming he would repay the $245 within 90 days and asked for five minutes to escape before police began pursuit.
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W Va
Virginia Shumaker
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