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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1935
Page
4
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The Decatur Rotary Club arranged the annual hobby fair at Bank Street showrooms attracting hundreds of delighted patrons. The event highlighted the useful enthusiasms of Morgan Lawrence and Limestone counties school children with hundreds of specimens on display and praised by teachers and parents.
Officials and committeemen of the Chamber of Commerce are praised for organizing Youth Day. The day is called a success despite a smaller crowd, with a better parade and athletic events, and the weather improving after an uncertain start.
Dr. J N Baker discusses Alabama public health and historic death figures from 1817 to 1934 highlighting typhoid, tuberculosis, pellagra, and malaria trends. The Dothan Eagle defends newspaper accuracy, noting reporters rely on sources yet usually report truth with few errors.
The 1933 34 fiscal year left only 267000 of a health appropriation available. For 1934 35 revenues improved but house bill 249 still reduces health funding by 125000 to 275000, a 60 percent cut from 1932. The speaker asks if this reflects legislative and public wishes.
An international overview by Arthur Brisbane argues that looming war pressures persist amid shifting alliances and public unrest. The piece surveys threats, political maneuvering, and social tensions shaping a fragile global outlook.
In the Commons the government signals resolve to match any hostile power’s air strength. A British spokesman rejects inferiority and warns Germany against provoking an arms race. The precise forces Germany may build remain unclear.
The piece cites Goering defending Germany's air power and asks for an apology from the League of Nations while France retorts Paris in five days. Russia and France plan mutual defense as war rumors loom. It notes Nazi theories about Jews and the League and mentions Hudson Motor Car's first quarter profit and Roy Chapin. The column defends press accuracy amid libel fears.
Medical science has advanced in childbirth, emphasizing prenatal care and physician guidance from early pregnancy. The piece contrasts historic risks with modern safeguards, citing laboratory resources, X rays, blood pressure monitoring, nutrition, and the quintuplet birth as a modern example of available medical advances in maternal care.
Huntsville visitor Elmer Vinson spent the week end in Athens. DeKalb visitors Mr. and Mrs. E S Loyd visited Sunday. Local attorney Thomas Woodroof improves after an automobile accident. Mrs. Spingarn of New York guest of Miss Frances Lerman. Mrs. George Rowe recovering after operation in Decatur. A. B. Stinnett dies west of Athens at 46, buried at Sandlin cemetery.
A fragmented column notes a retiree’s circulation issue and courtroom quips about delays. It reflects satirical phrases on politics, age, and the era, with fragments about court dates and remarks on public figures.
The Japan Labor Union Council plans to visit the United States at the invitation of the American Federation of Labor to study cheap manufacturing. The note mentions Filipino Sakalistas seeking independence, riots killing about sixty, and the appeal of socialist ideas.
In Pittsburgh two decommissioned coffee urns were delivered to Allegheny county jail via the Panama Canal. The vendor sold two discontinued models at a price allowing transport from the Pacific coast to beat the cost of new units.
Nine writers using rejected manuscript collections were chosen as finalists for New York University’s short story scholarship. The selected works were exhibited in New York City.
The article describes Pegasus as the famous Greek winged horse linked to Medusa and Bellerophon. It notes Pegasus served Zeus in heaven, fetching thunder and lightning, and became a symbol of the thunder cloud and swift curses, later associated with the Muses and poetry.
Walter Winchel's gossip column highlights Broadway intrigue and celebrity scandals. It notes guild splits, estate matters, marriages, fashion, and the hot backstage drama shaping theater and film, with names like Dorothy Herbert and Gertrude Stein threaded through.
Light spring humor sketches a study club rivaling marriage in inspiration and a jokey doctor patient scene. Quick quips hint at ethics magazines and a tongue tied doctor writing a prescription while a wife teases a spouse about diamonds and patience.
A humorous dialogue in a late night exchange. Two sailors argue if a heifer is pig or sheep. Boatswain wryly mediates. A doctor reaction ends with a counting sheep joke and a mistaken phone-number punchline.
The piece contrasts ongoing ballot voting with past methods, noting a shift in localities. It also reports savings banks deposits rising by over two million in the past year, while accessing that money remains a major hurdle.
Mothers give Cardui to daughters reaching young womanhood for relief. Mrs Bernice Hollen recalls irregularity and nosebleeds as a teen and credits Cardui with regulation. She notes improvement after marriage and urges medical consultation if Cardui does not help.
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