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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1934
Page
3
Vaughn and Baker of the Tennessee Valley Authority discuss a relief administration plan to reopen idle canning units on a cooperative basis. Workers would be paid in credit at the plant commissary and exchangeable for products from cooperative factories in several states. An equipment inventory at the Somerville road plant exists and a fuller resumption plan is expected to be announced soon.
The listing shows egg and butter prices with fresh sweet potatoes, turnips, and mixed produce. It also lists native dressed veal hogs lamb and poultry prices per pound and per dozen, with various weight ranges and quality grades. Prices range from 10 to 23 cents per pound for poultry and from about 1.75 to 8 dollars per item in the mixed lot.
Chicago April 12 report traces Samuel Insull fall from power as his 3 billion-dollar empire collapses. Auditors reveal profits paid from capital, massive liabilities vs assets, and $700 million to $1 billion losses to 600000 investors. Insull flees to Europe amid indictments for larceny and embezzlement.
Carload hay prices delivered in Birmingham show light hay receipts and slow demand with steady to unchanged quotations. Prices cover Johnson, Timothy, alfalfa. poultry and egg prices paid by jobbers. cotton seed, butter fat, corn and oats quotes. and cattle hog prices with a steady cattle market and varied hog weights and prices.
The page lists a mixed set of crossword clues with many misspellings and formatting errors. Several entries appear incomplete or garbled, indicating a damaged puzzle page with numerous misprints across both Across and Down sections.
The works division reports 475 men on roll distributed across the county. Under head T Budinger the unit advances projects begun by prior efforts, including resurfacing the West Palkville pike as part of county improvements.
A sketched tale notes a man chartered to Athens and boarded a tramp steamer Maiotis. He was jailed after a protest aboard and handed to U S authorities for extradition to Chicago for trial.
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