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Newspaper

Decatur Daily

Location

Decatur, Alabama, United States of America

Date

May 07, 1952

Page

11

Mike To Be Notified When He Arrives With Three Clicks

A brief message indicates that Mike will receive a notification when he arrives, after three clicks are completed. The note asserts a simple action sequence and delivery timing.

Decatur Alabama Approves Classified Improvement Ordinance

City Council on May 5 1952 confirms Improvement Ordinance No 655 and orders construction without bids. Costs to be assessed against benefited property with no excess of increased parcel value. Improvements to be done immediately under City Engineer supervision. Mayor H R Summer approves. City Clerk Joe Pettey attests.

City OF Decatur Alabama Joe Pettey H.R. Summer

VEICE CAT. By Junius

An absent minded grocer visits his family doctor. They chat several hours then the grocer hurries off. The doctor asks about his wife who is ill and the grocer reports she is having a fit. A satire notes citizens fear traffic cops in a supposed land of freedom. The piece mocks boom town excess and high show admission prices.

Daily Crossword Acroform Clues Page Highlights

Crossword acrostic style clues list with numbers and partial hints. Entries include crowns ain a mE can, near po, not state, permit, biblical city, and multiple science and letter abbreviations.

Cryptoquote puzzle solution prompt and hints

A cryptogram puzzle instruction appears with a sample quotation and decoding hints. It includes the date code LONGFELLOW and sample mappings A X to letters, plus a daily coded phrase and yesterday’s quote. It is distributed by King Features Syndicate for daily use.

Longfellow King Features Syndicate

Humorous Bits and Quotes Span Theater to Daily Life

A collage of jokes and quips ranges from price gripes about ham shows to radio lampoons and a cashier exchange. Bits include a bald headed man, a bed room closet quip, a policeman and boy scene, and a Coolidge quote about past regrets, plus a quip on station location and interplanetary travel.

Old Resident Miss Gussie Steindorff Dies in Logansport

Funeral services for Miss Gussie Steindorff pioneer Cullman resident who died in Logansport Indiana will be held Thursday at 2 30 p m from St Pauls Lutheran church with Rev Robert E Wiltenburg officiating. Interment in city cemetery. She had been ill three months. She left Cullman about 35 years ago and worked at Stiefelmeyer s Millinery then ran a business in Chicago. Her brother Jer an Steindorff died January 6. Attending are Mr and Mrs Albert Strantz Logansport Mrs Jennie Reiner Cleveland Mr and Mrs Alfred Steindorff Jackson Tenn and Mr and Mrs Lionell Freeman Decatur. The Medical Auxiliary met at Mrs L H Clemmons home Monday with installation of new officers. Officers listed and reports given from Montgomery convention. Dinner served. others present listed.

Gussie Steindorff Cullman Logansport Indiana St. Paul’s Lutheran Church Robert E. Wiltenburg Stiefelmeyer Businss Chicago Jeran Steindorff Albert Strantz Ind Jennie Reiner Cleveland Ohio Alfred Steindorff Jackson Tenn Lionell Freeman Decatur L. H. Clemmons C.M. Gross Treas E. D. McAdory R. A. Culpepper R. E. Williams Montgomery F. Stitt J.C. Chambliss T. D. Beatty Roy Williams J. C. Martin Frank Stitt J. G. Daves J. €. Chambliss

Doctors buy Sapp property to convert into clinic

Drs R E and Roy Williams purchase the Joe Sapp property on Third Ave and 4th St to convert the building into a clinic. Asa B Fuller II of Augusta Ga and family visit. Weekend at Guntersville Lake noted. H M Lovelace from Grove Hill visiting. Mrs Jack Murphree and Miss Edith Engle travel to Fort Sill Okla. for Betty Engle visit. Kiwanis sponsor Thursday horse show at VFW field for underprivileged children with Zamora Shriners parade during races. 100 horses entered. crowd expected. Dr L H Clemmons chairs planning committee.

R. E Roy Williams Joe Sapp Third Ave 4Th St Asa B. Fuller Augusta Forney Fuller E. E. Ponder Guntersville Lake H. M. Lovelace Grove Hill Jack Murphree Edith Engle Fort Sill Okla Betty Engle VFW Field Kiwanis Club Zamora Shriners L. H. Clemmons

Bookseller Arrest Over Soviet Book Slogan In Window

In Bratislava a bookstore owner was arrested after a Vienna paper reported she displayed four Russian titles in a window. The posters read We Want to Live Far From Moscow In the Shadows of the Skyscrapers Under a Foreign Flag, triggering police action.

Vienna Bratislava Czechoslovakia Wiener Kurier Moscow

Moscow Claims TV Invention in Radio Day Article

Izvestia broadcast by Radio Moscow claimed Russia invented television as part of a proud statement on Radio Day. The piece did not name the inventor but asserted Russia as birthplace of major radio technologies including radio location navigation television radio acoustics and high frequency current use in industry.

London Russia Moscow Izvestia Radio Moscow

Evidence of Roman coal use found in England

Archaeologists report dispersed cinders in England indicating Romans used coal during their occupation. The find suggests early fuel practices and industrial activity tied to Roman settlements in the region.

England

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