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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1957
Page
6
A collection of light humor and wordplay from readers including a Lamb anecdote about saying grace, a baseball heaven quip, a great-grandfather Emma puzzle, playful exchanges about jokes, a beauty parlor jab, a tale of an actor in Africa, and jokes about income tax, worm imitator, and Decatur barber.
Birmingham based South, a regional news magazine circulating in seven Southeastern states, will become bi weekly with the May 6 issue. Publisher Hubert Baughn cites reader demand for a larger magazine with broader regional coverage and notes South has long served Alabama before expanding.
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