Critics and wartime views from the Columbia Herald column
A condensed column discusses criticism of leaders and Allied strategy, praises British resilience, notes the Tennessee Tennessee Tombigbee Canal, reports on local figures returning from illness, mentions Nazi bombing and Japs retreat, and ends with Florence Chamber of Commerce backing cheese plants in Lauderdale County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florence Chamber of Commerce
Lauderdale County
Ardmore
Bear
Dentur
North Alabama voters face TVA issue in Senate race
Russellville Lions and Civilians raise 3000 for band and recreation director as civic clubs fight juvenile delinquency. All North Alabama urges success while urging voters to keep TVA out of politics and support Senator Lister Hilton in Tuesday polls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alabama
Lister Hill
Roosevelt
Columbia
Tenn
Russellville
North Alabama
Senate
TVA
Congress
Lister ‘Hilton
Canal and river project touted as postwar boon
The Alabama Journal highlights Senator Bankhead’s push for the Tennessee river Tombigbee canal linking the Tennessee Valley to Mobile. It notes the long family-backed effort, cost around 65 million, opposition from rail interests, and the canal’s potential to boost shipping and regional prestige.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alabama Journal
Senator Bankhead
Congress
South
Tennessee Valley
Mobile
Mississippi
Bankhead
Journal
Senate
Terchessee River
Gulf of Mexico
Newennessee
Pickwick Lake
Tennessee
Ohio Valley
Gulf
House of Representatives
Great Southern Waterway
Saeeee
Lumbago Advice From Dr. Ritz and Local Observations
A columnist shares Dr. Isaac Ritz’s view that lumbago acts like an epidemic virus spreading through communities in spring. He notes a case chain, possible transmission via digestion or respiration, and discusses home remedies and spaulding treatments while joking about doctors and local anecdotes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Chicago
Dallas
A Office Cat Observes Ministers Gestures in Pulpit
Dr. John F. Cowan notes over fifty seven gesture styles used by public speakers, from pocket placements to dramatic arm and finger actions. He observes how happiness stems from doing good and making others happy, ending with a quirky closing prompt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John F. Cowan
Fragmented Local Vignette Mixes Trials and Town Chat
Vague overheard scenes include a decatur couple debating hunting trips and a gas company speech with a pun on light. A racketeer faces murder trial bribery claims, while jury dynamics and host jokes drift through a chaotic, parlor style newspaper fragment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Light Brigade
War Bonds and House Hold Quips in a 1940s Fragment
A fragmented wartime comic collage contrasts domestic life with public duty. Lines touch on private affection, a live wire modern girl, and an over heated home, then pivot to buying war bonds and a juror turned away.
What Every Husband Knows Funny Exchange Strip
A series of quick gags covers marriage letters, furniture, mattress desires, and social quirks. Jokes include a letter signed Dolly provoking a smile, a Greek lyre reference, and bars praising beards as tough. A Decatur young man asks to kiss a hand as a sweet young thing questions cleanliness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dolly
Decatur
Walter Winchell on Broadway gossip and show business notes
News column highlights Walter Winchell’s Broadway chatter on Patton rumors publisher ambitions and star plans. It covers Ginny Simms entertainment schemes for soldiers, Frank Loesser, Mencken books, Gypsy Rose Lee, Marva Louis, the Japs and opera, tax audits on nightclubs, Carnegie Hall events, and various industry moves, auditions, and political quips.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patton Ahto
Gunther
Ginny Simms
Frank Loesser
Ace Longsmith
Mary Brown
A. A. Knopf
Mencken
Martin
Will Rogers
George O. Welles
Dick Himber
Todd
Mexico City
New York
Miami Beach
Carnegie Hall
Freedom Never Dies
Fredric March
Shirley Booth
Florence Eldridge
Louis Calhern
freedom’.House
War Department
Worcester firm supplies foundations for women everywhere
In Worcester Massachusetts a corset firm is praised for supplying foundations for women. Queens actresses and housewives rely on the company to keep their figures attractive. The chief model is the wife of a Worcester homemaker, chosen after an extended campaign of examining hundreds of women.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wocester
Mass
Worcester
Learned medico expounds theory and patient’s claimed kidney trouble
A man rushes to his physician insisting on kidney trouble. The doctor argues there is no pain with that ailment, while the man affirms the symptoms. The exchange unfolds in brisk, comic dialogue.
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Decatur Daily
ang-Sauday
Moeniae
Ala
The
Tennessee Valley- Printing Co.,. Inc
W. R. Shelton
Associated, Press
Michelangelo
Patton
Hitler
Germany
France
W. B. Markstein
Mark
Europe
Senator Hispament
Hat St Hill
Little Red Riding Hood
Grandma’s
America
Gress
Orie
American Legion G. I
Waves
Wacs
U. S
Jesse Jones
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Babson
Jones
Fones
Carl W Stamps
Sol Kuthruff
General Motors
Efc
Palo Alto
California
RFC
Bank of America
By Logan Clendening, M.D
Isaac Ritz
Grogan’s
Clendening
Ritz
Kellberg Institute of
Stockholm
C. R
Red Cap
Dunkerque
Trishman
Vater
Dad
Walter Winchell
Broadway
Dewey
David O. Selznick
Hollywood
Arthur William Brown
Society of
Ilustrators
Phil
Baker
Irmgaard_Erik
Beverly Hills
Constance Moore
Paul Lukds
Doubleday-Doran
H. Allen Smith
Webster
King Features
Wm. Crawford
Pacific
Lisbon
Greenwich Village
Marva Louis
Grace Moore
Rca-Victor
la Conga
Simon and Schuster
Peter Arno
Ralph Ober
Associated Press- Wide World Photo
New York City
Richard Korbel
Hedy Spielter
Jean Paddock
Kelly
Eneene
Conlywood
Ed Walace
NBC
LST
South Pacific
MacArthur
U. S. Post
Los Angeles Examiner
San Francisco Dutos
Lorna Byron
Kostelanetz
la Prensa
Havana
Madrid
Raul
Eva Reyes
Jose Curbello
Pilar Lopez
Chucho Martinez
Hansen's Drug Store
Poor Man’s Stork Club
Columm
Sunday Times
Decatur Transit
Allied van Lines, Inc
Williams Transfer & Storage Co
First Ave
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