Increases In Payrolls And Retail Trade Reported By The Federal Reserve
The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta reports February business conditions in the Sixth District Alabama Florida Georgia Louisiana Mississippi and Tennessee. Payrolls and construction contracts rise while textile output pig iron and coal dip. department store sales rise 28 percent year over year though total retail activity down 2.1 percent. First two weeks of March show an 8 percent rise over 1938.
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Atlanta
Federal Reserve of
Alabama
Orida
Georgia
Louisiana
Mis
Tennessee
An &B
February construction and industry in the 1938 district
February contracts fell 24 percent after January drop. residential awards rose 9.6 percent. Cotton use in Georgia Alabama Tennessee dipped 1 percent while national use rose 26 percent. Alabama steel output ran at 72 percent capacity since February start. pig iron production fell 18 percent. Receipts and government payments in local reports varied with crop receipts down 44 percent.
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United States
Alabama
Mary
Offbeat Jokes and Laugh Lines From a Dated Page
A collage of quips and cartoons featuring a temperance minister, a self-deprecating jogger, a bugler who found ways to save, a color blind bride and grocer banter, and jokes about budgets taxes nutting and WPA workers. The humor spares graphic detail and preserves era tone.
Congress Actions Today Across Senate House Committees
Senate debates a 40 million dollar bill to buy strategic war materials at 12 noon EST. Commerce studies Florida ship canal. House votes on a 100 million dollar relief appropriation. Ways and Means questions Altmeyer on social security revision. Labor weighs wage hour amendments. Interstate Commerce reviews civilian air pilot training. Yesterday the House debated relief funds and the Senate approved cuts to surplus disposal and a cost of production farm bill.
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Senate
Commerce Committee
HOUSE
Ways and Means
Altmeyer
Labor Committee
Interstate Commerce Committee
Kiwanis Club Enjoys Fine Meeting with Speaker and New Members
Decatur Kiwanis hosted a large gathering chaired by Phillip Shanks aiming for full attendance. The session welcomed John Fowler Homer Tankersly Clyde McRae and featured entertainment by Nancy Wilson David Rowe Betty Pirtle Bertha Mae Timberlake and piano by Charles Murphy. Albert J. Van Camp of Detroit spoke on Africa and tribal customs.
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Decatur Kiwanis Club
Phillip Shanks
Kiwanis
Quince Eddins
Murray House
Lewis Brown
Shanks Kiwan
John Fowler
Decatur School System
Homer Tankersly
Decatur Coca-Cola
Clyde McRae
McRae Motors Co
Scoutieader Hubbard
Tennessee Valley Council of Boy Scouts
J. O. Henkel
Alabama Power Company
John Nelson
Huntsville Chamber of Commerce
Lula Mae Boggs
Mr. House
Nancy Wilson
David Rowe
Betty Pirtle
Bertha Mae Timberlake
Charles Murphy
Mr. Shanks
Albert J. van Camp
Detroit, Mich
Africa
Sunday Services Deliberate on Christ Rejection and Life
A church schedules two sermons this Sunday morning and evening. The morning topic asks if the masses will again reject Christ and release Barabbas, while the evening sermon proclaims Passing from death into Life.
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Christ
Barabbas
Serum Treatments Warned Against Abandonment
New Orleans March 31 report says the American College of Physicians warned that abandoning serum therapy for pneumonia in favor of gulfapyridine would be unfortunate. Dr. Finland of Harvard Medical School noted several cases treated with serum types showing mortality had been reduced.
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New Orleans
American College of Physicians
Finland
Harvard Medic
Fragmentary Note on Medical Deaths and Treatment
A clipped sentence discusses reduced death rates to about 3 percent not counting deaths from inadequate treatment or other complicating causes. It hints at medical outcomes and the impact of care quality on mortality.
Pastor Returns to Preach Sunday at Central Baptist
Rev and Mrs John C Cowell Jr return to Decatur after ten weeks away in Ft Myers and the Carolinas. Cowell reports better health and joy at resuming his duties with Central Baptist Church and friends across North Alabama. He will occupy the pulpit this Sunday.
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John C. Cowell, Jr
Decatur
Ft. Myers
Fla
Carolinas
Cowell
Central Baptist Church
North Alabama
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