Fishermen’s Narrow Escapes Spark City Headlines
Columbus Commercial Dispatch reports a series of wild fishing tales. Edigar Harris allegedly hooked a large lake fish near West Point that caused a skiff to move rapidly and nearly burn. A Tampa Bay incident follows, as a fisherman on a liner hooked a fish that towed the vessel toward the shore.
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Columbus Commercial Dispatch
Ene
Tombigbee
Edigar Harris
West Point
Tampa
Fla
Tampa Bay
Farley Predicts All Four States Roosevelt Territory
Political figure Farley asserts all four states are Roosevelt territory as a political strategy. He urges declaring victory now and letting opponents prove otherwise, a move seen as strong leadership by insiders.
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Farley
Roosevelt Territory
Worth of Morgan County Sanatorium Shown in Good Works
The Morgan County Tubercular Sanatorium displays its value through ongoing good works, suggesting its service will become a major asset for northern Alabama.
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Morgan County Tubercular
North
Alabama
Huntsville Man Sentenced to Death in Huntsville Murder
A Madison county jury convicted Walter Miller in seven minutes for the assault and murder of a Huntsville girl. Judge Paul Speake then imposed the death sentence two minutes later. The community awaits June for the sentence to be carried out.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huntsville
Madison County
Walter Miller
Miller
Paul Speake
Alabama
Mobile
Tennessee Line
Alabama Tax Reform Plea Faces Legislature
A prospective Alabama legislative session faces a call to cut burdensome taxes before adding new ones. The public urges scrapping outdated ad valorem and other “grandfather” tax methods for a fair system, vowing to support reform if relief is offered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alabama
Ouldars of
Early summer fish story stirs Mississippi press chatter
The Columbus Dispatch quotes editors from West Point and Houston weighing a claimed five pound trout skirting a lake myth. The piece notes the tale as a classic fish story and hints at editorial debates among local papers about credibility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mississippi
Empire State Building
Columbus Dispatch
Graham Golson
Times-Post
Houston
Fresh start urged for League of Nations to save peace
The Anniston Star argues the League has failed to curb Japan and Mussolini and urges a renewed pact led by Eden. It warns the League without Germany, Japan, and the United States cannot deter aggressors and calls for talks on a new structure, postwar debts, and European cooperation.
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Anniston Star
League
Europe
Eden
Ethiopia
The
Star
Great Britain
Anthony Eden
Germany
Japan
United States
Europe, Mussolini and the League in a tense era
The piece surveys Mussolini Hitler and Stalin as threats to Europe and the League of Nations. It notes Italy’s conquest of Ethiopia, Haile Selassie’s departure, and questions about American involvement, with commentary on public budgets, arms, and geopolitical shifts. It also covers other varied items from parachute incidents to birth control campaigns and census figures.
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Mussolini
Hitler
Stalin
Europe
League of Nations
Haile Selassie
League
Selassie
Ethiopia
Italy
England
France
Russia
Japan
United States
Barber Extracts Teeth Shaves and Sets Bones
Dr Logan Clendening recounts an Egyptian barber shop where a street chair patient was treated openly. He notes antique stone razors, primitive surgery, and the evolution of shaving soap, safety razors, and antiseptic practices reducing barber’s itch while praising shaving as a hygienic esthetic.
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Logan Clendening
M. D
Egypt
Moulton Visitors and Local Business Activity
Mt Hope residents and nearby towns frequent Moulton for visits and business. Notables include W R Martin, Christine Young, Elizabeth Counts, J W Jacobs, T S Barnum, O W Bass, L Chenault, and local officials like Mayor Crothwaite. A Decatur highway wreck near L I Sherrill farm involved Fred Pearce and Dr Fisher with minor injuries.
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W. R. Martin
Mt. Hope
Robert Peacock
CCC
Livingston
R. G. Clark
Christine Young
Elizabeth Counts
Mt Hope
J. 8. Pearce
Russellville
J. Kirk Howell
Birmingham
Irwin Sheats
Decatur
J. W. Jacobs
Moulton
T. S. Barnum
O. W. Bass
Trinity
Charles E. Bragg
Lawrence County Court House
A. J. Crothwaite
Fred Pearce
J. L. Weatherwax
Fisher
L. I. Sherrill Farm
Pearce
D. C. Pless
Mussolini’s 40 Year Plan Seeks 100 Percent Increase
The text notes Mussolini’s demand for a 100 percent increase over forty years, arguing such an expansion would fit a country of 24 million on relief. It implies his capability to create space for this growth and frames the plan as aggressive and decisive.
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Mussolini
Time to quit seems never, wry rural quips emerge
The excerpt blends comic dialogues with farmers and townsfolk, joking about social security bills, political security, a sleepy hired man, grand jury timing after a joke, and marriage advice. It features rustic banter and comic one liners from local characters, reflecting small town life and humor.
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Emma Orvis
Richard Cunningham
Edding Bells
Margaret Anglin
Tate “Fresh Fields
Metro
Marie Dressler
Clifford Odets
Franchot Tone
Tone
B. A. Grossyan
Comic Chats and Classroom Quips Across a Curious Page
The fragment presents a collage of humorous exchanges and classroom questions. It features light banter about stars and comets, desserts, hair color remedies, gossip, Missouri mule raising, and playful dialogue between teacher and students. The items read like a vintage humor page with quick quips and social observations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri
United States
Walter Winchell On Broadway Rumors and Movements
Gossip column notes rapid-fire headlines and speculations from Hollywood and New York, listing Mrs. Ted Husing dating rumors and marriages, Doris Dudley and Doris Andre life changes, Tex Rickard memories, J Edgar Hoover fame, and various industry moves.
Society Photog Richard Brugiere Tops Page for Ball
A chaotic society column notes Richard Brugiere, son of Mrs. Cooper Hewitt, rising as Ball’s new photographer amid courts and cameras. It mentions Arthur Garfield Hays surviving a canoe fall, and various couples and showbiz figures in brief gossip, with multiple Italian and Broadway names scattered through the item.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ball
New Society
Richard Brugiere
Cooper Hewitt
Arthur Garfield Hays
Edward F. Sieler
Nat's Safety Bank and Trust Co
Peggy Moffett
Brooklyn
Connie Bennett
David Oliver
Gilbert
Playwright Ursula Parrott Writes New Comedy
In a noted return, Ursula Parrott, sister of Gloria Swanson’s Michael Farmer, pens the new comedy Gentlemen Oblige. The dramedy involves Mrs Brinsley Plunkett and family intrigues as noted society figures send flowers daily from Dr. Allan Cross.
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Doctor's Hospital
Fanny Ward
la Ward
Brinsley Plunkett
Gloria Swanson
Michael Farmer
Ursula Parrott
Allan Cross
Crossé
Quips on Growing Up and Marriage Expectations
A collection of crisp, often humorous takes on personal growth marriage and happiness. The speaker contrasts fathers and boys with advice on ambition holidays and maturity highlighting self awareness and humility in adulthood.
Athens society events and highway patrol notes
Mrs. Fred Wall and Miss Margaret Yo Wall hosted a tea for Mrs. Edward Creel and guests at Athens College. The Woman’s Missionary Society met at the First Methodist church with talks on religious and world friendship themes. Athens College Glee club toured Tuscaloosa and Birmingham. The Limestone County municipal court featured seven drunk driving arrests by the state highway patrol. The Country Star fundraiser will run May 21 22 and 23 in a vacant storehouse. Dr. W A Minsch will take leave for Johns Hopkins study via Rockefeller Foundation. Van Buren Gilbert led the patrol at Huntsville trial.
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Fred Wall
Margaret Yo Wall
Edward Creel
R. B. Patton
Wall
Creel
J. M. Oldacre
Cullman
Miss Wall
M. Adams
Grady Davis
J. C. McFarland
W. A. Caughran
Martee Armstrong
Willie Griffis
Ethel Chambers
Mary Hampton Wall
Harold Lovyern
Camella
Christine White
Woman's Missionary Society
First Methodist Church
K. L. Rudolph
Léon Pope
Anita
Old Hickory
Tenn
Athens College
Birmingham
M. C. Fosbue
Demopolis
J. Brockman Sanders
Murfreesboro
W. H. Nelson
Joyce Lerman
Vanderbilt University
Nashville
Eugene D. Lerman
Athens College Glee Club
Tuscaloosa
B. D. Peck
Glee Club
Bayliss Hightower
Decatur
Athens Public Schools
W. R. Battle
State Highway Patrol
Limestone County
Progress Clab
W. A. Minsch
Minsch
Johns Hopkins
Rockefeller Foundation
van Buren Gilbert
Athens
Huntsville
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New York
Antly Sis Sonths
Ene Peer
C. & Pat Office
King Features Syndicate, Inc
Arthur Brisbane
Hees
Daily Papers
Miss
Edgar Harris
Times-Herald
Birney Imes
Woodrow Wilson
Far East
America
Palestine
Solomon
Sheba
Halle Selassie
Switzerland
Harriet O. Hague
Eckener
Africa
Mediterranean
Rome
Carthage
Suez Canal
Marseilles
Riviera
Bureau of Census
Jerome W. Ephraim
Clendening
Eula Aldridge
Memphis
G. M. Gilchrist
Courtland
R. C. Fuller
R. C. Jackson
L. W. Gentry
Masterson of
Chas A. Watkins
Lawrence County
J. C. Weatherwax
Clark
Hodgins
Jasper
H. L. Tidwell
Albertville
Byron Young
Landersville
Wr. L. Chenault
Slocomb
Josh
Walter Winchell
Broadway
Caily Mirror
Tne
Ted Husing
Yarrop
Husing
Doris Dudley
Kingsley
Savoy
London
Jack Dempsey
Gretta Nissen
Kodak
Weldon Heyburn
Chewsday
Ginger Rogers
Lew Ayres
Robert Garland
World Telly
Queenie Smith
Tex Rickard
Stokes
Tex
Mack Gowson
Mickey McKillop
LeRoy Prinz
Dorchester
J. Edgar Hoover
Ann St. George
Jim Wallington
Anita Louise
CBS
L. Richman
Lois
de Fee
Leon
Eddie
Fa- Mowus
Doris Andre
Vanities
Texas
Louise Erdman
Kansas City
Rosite
Hillpot
Max Baer
Hollywood
John Paul Jones
Vet Boswell
J. S. Chapmans
Aldys Squire
George B. Sears
L. Paynes
D. Horsleys
Anita Couathan Colby
Gregory Mangin
Miriam Hopkins
Will Hays
Tom Weatherly
Ethel
Hampton
J. J. Astor
Francis O. French
Newport
EFC
Morocco
Peggy Rich
Ralph Kirberry
NBC
Empire State
Guthrie Luke, II
W. Virginia
Edna Taylor
Hal Kemp
Bob Hills
Mary McCormic
Mary Garden
Lloyd Fisher
Hauptman
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