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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1920
Page
4
A mixed page notes the Berean club schedule with bridge games and Friday events. It also lists travel and social updates including visits by Mrs. Ponder in Hackleburg, Mrs. Shelton traveling to Columbia for recuperation, and Mrs. Orrendorff returning from Lacon. The item closes with a poetry excerpt and a geography excursion report from the First Ward school.
Advert says 666 provides rapid relief for torpid liver causing constipation biliousness loss of appetite and headaches.
Personal W B Williams and children left for Thomasville Georgia to visit relatives. T T Watson of Savannah Tennessee was Sunday guest of Mrs S L Hurst. Milton Hurston spent Sunday in Albany. Walter C Nolian secretary of the local Y M C A is ill with a nervous breakdown at his mother's home in St Louis. He has been confined to bed for several days.
Homer Ste president of the American Toy Exhibitors says the old rag doll remains the top choice for children despite airplanes, bisque dolls, wireless sets, and car toys. He notes last year saw record rag doll production and demand is up again, even as new affordable phonographs and “Savenvite engineering” toys enter the market.
A Transcript essay laments modern life and a warming planet while noting unusually cold winters in Boston. It argues the sun wastes energy and the earth radiates heat into space, predicting fashionably cold seasons until explorers reach far Arctic regions and Antarctica impacts Boston climate.
A wife seeks a new davenport while scrutinizing furniture adverts and newspapers. Her husband teases with a remark about davenport ads, then notices she is reading a coffin company advertisement, hinting at unresolved marital tension.
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