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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1958
Page
9
The Zanesville Chamber of Commerce praises Zanesville as exceptionally rich with vivid exaggerations about gold dust on every blade of grass and two banks in every ditch. A classroom etymology convo yields lambkin and other kin words. A traveler narrates a six day poker voyage where he wins before the shipboard game ends.
A traveling gambler narrates a risky plan to raise stakes while a boy points him out as a money taker. The tale shifts to a chorus girl marriage rumor and a wary elderly playboy’s escapades, amid a medical feature on alcohol's uses and limits in industry and medicine.
A telephone firm required a written explanation after a foreman named Harry spilled hot lead on coworker Jake Hoople during pole work. The foreman claimed the man joked about care, saying Good gracious you really must be more careful with that stuff. Five men were later arrested in a gambling raid following the incident.
John Leopold, 68, former RCMP superintendent and noted expert on Communist operations, was found dead in his Ottawa apartment on Saturday. Leopold testified in 1931 to convict eight Canadian Communists of seditious conspiracy, after years undercover in the party. Cause of death not yet disclosed.
Emerson New Jersey Borough Police Commissioner Joseph A Brescia serves as a beer taster and bacteriologist for a brewery while maintaining the police motto that drinking and driving do not mix. He commutes by bus to work.
In court the judge calls for the craps players to step forward. Six men approach the bench and a sixth admits his pastime. A line about ancestral names and virtuous honors concludes the fragment.
State Police arrested John R. Hirsch a city employee while driving a 1926 Reo truck owned by Bloomington. The truck lacked plates, Alvin Keller city finance director paid a $9 fine and said the vehicle is used at the water and light plant and should not be taken from that location.
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