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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1932
Page
2
The Montgomer Jourfia reports a Wednesday hailstorm that dumped big hail over Decatur with little damage but left observers feeling helpless before nature’s force. The piece recalls recent Alabama wind events and explores humanity’s uneasy sense of control against nature’s sudden fury.
The Selman Times-Journal cites Kenneth Collins, Macy and Co. publicity director, urging business men not to cut newspaper advertising. He argues curtailment harms own sales and delays national prosperity, noting newspapers as the best advertising medium and referencing his new book The Road to Good Advertising.
Nation's Business editor Merle Thorpe surveys the United States' path to recovery, warning that government missteps and paradoxes threaten progress. He foresees later historians noting debates over coal, oil, timber, crops, and tariffs, yet credits individual responsibility and private initiative for restoration and prosperity.
The state reports finest food and feed crops in history produced at record low costs while cotton prices fall to historic lows. Farmers prioritize homegrown staples and marketable crops to sustain incomes and feed the populace.
The first mention in months links Mussolini to a produced play. Berlin audiences did not marvel but booed, marking a rare moment where he failed to impress his own theatrical supporters.
Mr and Mrs Flippen returned from a week end trip to Nashville Tennessee Mrs W R Nelson was in Huntsville on Sunday Mr and Mrs Jeff Minor of Florence were Sunday guests of Mr and Mrs J M Minor Mrs A H Kelley and Mrs Sittason are leaving soon for Memphis Tennessee H Wilds left today on business to Annapolis
Arthur Brisbane surveys political jabs around Hoover and Roosevelt, a bomb scare at a Japanese emperor birthday parade, and Bishop Manning’s attack on Roosevelt. He muses on Dodgson’s anniversary at Columbia, a Ky. prison uprising, British imperial tactics, and new hopes of land rising in the Pacific.
A man-hunt stretched across the Carolinas after five gunmen who killed Officer A. B. Hunt in Greenville South Carolina and escaped from three pursuing officers. Hunt, 27, died when a taxi was stopped for questioning passengers. The gunmen exchanged fire with officers, who subdued them. a third man then opened fire and fled as another car joined the scene.
The state highway department plans to widen a number of narrow bridges on roads across Alabama to improve safety. Hundreds of bridges built before wider highways hinder travel and are targeted for widening.
On this day in 1901 the United States established a civil government in the Philippines, marking a shift in colonial administration. The event reflects early American governance reforms in the archipelago and its path toward local political structuring.
The text discusses keeping land and water balance by storing desert water. It imagines using solar-driven evaporation to lift fresh water into clouds and pouring it onto deserts and farms. It notes oceans contain enough water to cover Earth one mile deep.
The barn owl is prized by farmers because its diet consists entirely of rodents that damage crops, making it an effective natural pest control.
Senator Henrik Shipstead of Minnesota, a liberal and noted reformer, recalls his informal audience with King Haakon VII in Oslo last summer. The king greeted him casually, spoke with clear grasp of world affairs, and jested that no one pays attention to his suggestions. The Minnesota senator describes the monarch as athletic, approachable, and possessing a surprising sense of humor.
The column outlines the Hollywood Eighteen Day Diet by Logan Clendening MD. It explains water retention delays weight loss in early days and presents a three day sample plan with meals across breakfast lunch and dinner. It notes the diet aims to lose about a pound daily and previews next sections on exercise and discipline.
A fragmentary collage of witty lines and satirical jokes spans topics from love and law to risk and ambition. The piece riffs on timing like a cat and on crossed paths between burglars, lawyers, and lovers, ending with a jab at racketeering.
A collection of pithy maxims and jokes with brief anecdotes. Includes lines about discipline, ambition, and happiness alongside humorous dialogues about eggs and a belittled Empress Eugenie. The piece reads like light, scattered humor in a Sunday page.
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