Decatur Daily Potaanes Editorial Style Note
The Decatur Daily Potaanes announces its publication pattern in Decatur Ass and lists staff roles including Shelton managing editor Benjamin Bloodworth and F Sheppard as business manager. It notes Associated Press use rights and national advertising representation in New York Chicago Detroit and other cities.
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Shelton
Balter
Benjamin Bloodworth
F. Sheppard
Associated Press
Associated
Devine-Tenney Corporation
New York Chicago
Detroit
Pittsburgh
Des Moines
Atlante
When the Southern Farmer Will Come Into His Own
Read lines envisioning a time when Southern farmers produce bread and meat from their lands free of creditors and debt. The speaker imagines farmers thriving in gardens orchards vine yards dairies and barnyards while cropping their fields in independence.
Make your plans to attend The Y's cooking school
Community notice invites residents to join The Y's cooking school event. Details are limited, but organizers emphasize a practical class focusing on everyday meals.
Questioning the Enduring Gold Standard
A reflection on the elusive definition of the gold standard and the persistent debate over its precise meaning. The text notes widespread queries and the lack of a universally satisfactory answer.
Tri Cities men charged with gigging fish face fines
A local notice recalls several Tri Cities men charged with gigging and taking fish. The write up questions enforcement and suggests the law may be outdated and warrant revision by future legislative sessions.
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Tri-Cities
Vehicle lights urged on highways in editorial
The Selma Times Journal notes an Alabama court case where a Dallas county man was fined one dollar and ten days for driving without proper lights. Sheriff Tucker vows to continue enforcing vehicle lighting on highways while editors compare lighting laws to noble but rarely observed statutes.
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Tucker
Dallas
Butler County
News readers shift focus amid bread and war concerns
The Montgomery Advertiser notes low mood alters reader interests from scandals and sports to bread and money. It argues people prioritize survival and economic questions over sensationalism, with Roosevelt’s economic measures and global finance dominating front pages as society seeks stability.
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Montgomery
Campaigns Target One Eyed Travel On Highways
The article notes state patrol efforts stopping "one eyed" travel and wagons lacking proper lights, arguing such enforcement is a hardship only if applied to people who do not possess vehicle prices or fuel. It suggests these patrols are profitable for the public and those stopped.
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Japan
China
Russia
New York State
Decatur
Georgia Cotton Fields Today
Arthur Brisbane discusses rural Georgia cotton fields and social issues of the era, touching on exploitation of youth and issues around taxation and home life.
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Georgia
Seaboard train wanderings and economic musings on gold
A Savannah passenger notes Georgia scenery along the Seaboard Air Line while reflecting on gold standards, dollar value, and U S debt. He cites European views, insists the United States will keep gold, and praises dollar strength amid global finance debate. He singles out Governor Pinchot’s child labor activism and anticipates scrutiny of Pennsylvania sweatshop conditions. Colonel Frank B. Shutts highlights Miami migration figures.
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Savannah
Seaboard Air Line
Georgia
Nathan Straus
Europe
Roosevelt
United States
Sam
France
Pinchot
Pennsylvania
Washington Herald
Federated Crafts Leader to Leave for Louisville
12 Years Ago Sam E. Roper, chairman of the Federated Crafts of the L. and N., will depart tonight for Louisville. Specen Athletic Club of the City League defeated the Legion 4 to 2 Saturday with batteries John son and Barnes, Bloodworth and Jervis. J. A. Buttrey returned from New York where he went to purchase merchandise for Buttrey's Department Store. William R. Norton returned from a Huntsville visit. P. G. Kimbrough of Hartselle visited on business.
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Sam E. Roper
Federated Crafts of the
Louisville
Specen Athletic Club
Legion
Johnson
J. A. Buttrey
New York
Buttrey
Visits Sisters in Ardmore Mrs Mangrum Guests Thursday
Mrs H B Mangrum and her son from Ardmore Tenn visited here on Thursday with her sisters Mrs J W Couch and Miss Lacy Har grove.
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H. B. Mangrum
Florida offers tax free homesteads to attract new residents
Governor Shultz and the Florida legislature consider a plan to grant tax free status on homesteads costing up to 5000 dollars to the first 1000 new residents from other states who establish dwellings and reside in Florida. The proposal envisions 100000 families bringing pensions and substantial spending, boosting land investment and state revenue through other means.
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Florida
Shultz
California
New Jersey
Labor clash over 30 hour week bill in Senate hearings
The Senate hearings on the 30 hour week bill unfold with deep dispute over federal regulation, minimum wage, import embargoes, and production control. Notable figures include Wood challenging proposals, William Green supporting minimum wage for unskilled workers, Gerard Swope outlining a plan, Henry Harriman opposing the Perkins amendments, and Edward Cassidy affirming unemployment among his typographical union members.
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Senate
Labor Movement
Connery
Wood
William Green
U. F of L
Gerard Swope
General Electric
Swope
Henry S. Harriman
U. S.chamber of Commerce
New
Cassidy
I am the Church in a moral parable dialogue
A dramatic voice declares I am the Church as a benevolent force guiding people through memories and mercy. The scene shifts to a courtroom where a prisoner pleads for mercy, and a witty exchange about cake and a doctor ends the fragment.
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Earth
Church
Silly Vignettes and Witty Observations From a Dated Page
A collection of pithy lines and quips about silent partners, jokes on the self, ham and bacon in meals, a sepia circus, a tired office man at a musical comedy, a film praised beyond its merit, a prompt telephone operator, a public speaker with an eager audience, a burning lover, and a moral plaque about virtue.
Barbs and humor mix with political squibs of 1933
The item humorously critiques Works Progress Administration plans and political spending while quipping on the Depression. It blends satirical lines about conservators, ceremonial dances for rain, and age of progress with quips on money, by-laws, and moral living, all in a Decatur newspaper voice.
Morgan County Girls Honored for Best Citizen Award
Miss Katherine Weaver, Montevallo class of 1933 and Student Senate president, won the Best Citizen honor for the year, earning the loving cup. She led the honor group in Alabama College’s May procession on May 6, with Miss Mary Kate Troup and Miss Aline Blair also receiving recognition.
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Katherine Weaver
Montevallo
Weaver
Elbert Weaver
Fourth Avenue
Decatur
Iss Mary Kate Troup
Aline Blair
Hartsellé
Miss Troup
Miss Blair
Miss Weaver
Weather report shows 71 56 degree day so far
The weather bureau records a maximum 71 degrees and a minimum 56 degrees by 7 o'clock this morning.
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