Nation Faces War Prep and State Hopes in 1940 Commentary
A 1940 column urges immediate national readiness amid war, praises river navigation in Tennessee and Alabama, and predicts Roosevelt as Democratic nominee with Bankhead as possible running mate. It highlights Delano Park improvements, rising business activity, European purchases, and the Cullman Strawberry Festival as signs of regional progress and optimism.
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Delano Park
Decatur
Administrative Land Research Corporation
England
Cullman
Alabama
Banner County
Baldwin County
Fragmentary World War II Speech Excerpt
The passage references Nazi Germany’s advance and wartime rhetoric. It notes responsibility for the war and the impact on the country, with a grim tone about losses and the ongoing conflict. The fragment ends without a clear conclusion.
Milk Market Growth Signals Profit Potential for Decatur
On the first day after daylight saving time in Decatur the milk market surpassed 7000 pounds with new customers daily. The piece argues Alabama farms can succeed like Tennessee by controlling production costs and feed, noting full milk on the roadside as a symbol of progress and future prosperity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Decatur
North
Alabama
Tennessee
Morgan County Fishing Rodeo Planned For May
Plans are laid for the annual Morgan County fishing rodeo to be held May 25 to May 29. The Daily urges county residents to back the event and boost participation, noting about 600 sportsmen took part last year and aiming to exceed that figure with united support.
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Morgan County
Song Birds Plea Over Ruthless Killing by Youths
A Decatur resident condemns the wanton killing of song birds by boys using air rifles or sling shots. The Daily argues song birds may be protected under conservation statutes and urges officials to act to curb the practice.
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the Daily
Decatur
Voice of Law
Roosevelt to urge Congress to fund defense need
Washington dispatches quote Secretary Stephen Early that President Roosevelt will send a plea to Congress this week for funds to strengthen national defense. The piece argues taxes should fund armament and urges Congress to stay in session to approve the money. The article compares Allied sacrifices to press for swift German defeat.
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Associated Press
Washington
Stephen Early
Roosevelt
Congress
New Deal Lawyers Fight Red Tide in Guild Scrutiny
Washington observes a covert clash as Young New Deal lawyers mobilize to block Reds from infiltrating the Lawyers Guild. A Round Robin pledge aims to keep the Washington delegation united against Communist influence and potential Guild upheaval amid looming conventions.
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Washington
New Deal
Lawyers Guild
National Youth Congress
Negro Congress
Supreme Court
Roosevelt
Crimson
Harvard
Governor Donahey Visits City and Local Property Sale
Governor Vic Donahey stopped in the city this morning as a guest of Col and Mrs W J Edmundson. The Wiley Fredric Station property on Second Avenue was sold to H D Bynum of Courtland. Jaycees win season opener 25 to 12 over Cooper Wells at WW game.
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Vic Donahey
Ohio
City
W. J. Edmundson
Second Avenue
Wiley Fredric
H. D. Bynum
Courtland
Jaysees
Cooper-Wells
Treating Warts by Mental Suggestion
Dr Logan Clendening outlines a mental suggestion approach to wart treatment discussed by about 50 dermatology colleagues in Philadelphia. He notes many juvenile warts respond to suggestion, with complete clearance in four to eight weeks, and cites x ray and ointments as physical options. A cautionary tale from Kentucky highlights adherence challenges in children and ketosis.
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Logan Clendening
M. D
Academy of Dermatology
Philadelphia
Diet to Prevent Epileptic Seizures Popular Ketogenic Method
The ketogenic diet is a high fat low starch and sugar plan claimed to better control seizures than drugs. It is especially valued for children and works for about half the patients when effective, offering a dramatic improvement in those cases.
Arebs Beat Connecticut Mills 13 to 2 in League Play
Arebs defeated Connecticut Mills 13 to 2 after hours and thirty minutes of play. Attendance hit 451 at Central Baptist Sunday school. Mrs. Rufus Peerson and Mrs. J. G. McGehee to host bridge Friday at three. Hortense Wallace of Cullman visited the Branums. Mrs. N. J. Hough of Lacey's Spring visits daughter Mrs. Grady Simpson. Mrs. C. A. Felton and daughter from Atlanta visiting Milton Andrews. H Maynard Layman to teach at Abingdon Va high in September.
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Arebs
Connecticut Mills
Rufus Peerson
J. G. McGehee
Bridge
N. J. Hough
Lacey
Mrs
Grady Simpson
Central Baptist Sunday School
H. Maynard Layman
Abbingdon, Va
Brothers duel party loyalties at Iowa State College
John Van Der Linden a senior at Iowa State College helps form a Republican club while his younger brother Louis a junior assists in organizing a Democratic club on campus. The event marks a political test of family alignment within Ames.
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Ames
John
Louis van der Linden
John van der Linden
Iowa State College
New
Iowa State
Diet and Supplements for Brittle Nails
Food has little to do with brittle nails. A vitamin-deficient diet may contribute, but proof is limited. Buttermilk contains calcium, but calcium is not helpful for brittle nails. In most cases brittleness stems from a fungal infection or other germ.
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Thomas Marks
Lexington
Dr Clendening Offers Seven Health Pamphlets for Dime Post
Editor notes Dr Clendening provides seven pamphlets priced at 10 cents each. To receive a pamphlet send 10 cents with a self addressed stamped envelope to Dr Logan Clendening in care of this ot. Titles include Three Weeks to Highier, Indigestion and Constipation, Judging and Gaining, Infant Feeding, Diabetes Treatment, Feminine Hygiene, and The Care of the Hair and Skin.
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Clendening
Logan Clendening
Jneigh Ier
Offbeat Exchange Sparks Irreverent Office Chat
Fragments show office chatter about work, marriage, and dating inside a casual conversation. Jerry and Edith exchange quips on thinking up tasks and choosing better partners, with a Decatur freshman joke about love at first sight.
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Decatur
Rastus Questioned on 1918 Mobilization Camp
In 1918 a colored boy marching toward a mobilization camp was asked where he was going. he answered he was being taken. The piece ponders whether children could become an economic asset rather than a liability amid social and economic shifts.
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Rastus
I Want to Be a Helpful Man of Sterling Worth
A poem by Grenville Kleiser expresses the desire to help others through cheerful goodwill and earnest work. It reflects on finding usefulness in daily toil and the value of a sympathetic heart to ease sorrow. The speaker seeks to prove worth through humble service and a dignified bearing.
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Morgan County
Crippled Children’s Society
Grenville Kleiser
Neighborly Quip Highlights Long Search for Spouse
A humorous exchange shows a wife searching for her husband for two hours and a spinster revealing she has spent twenty years looking for one. The brief joke plays on persistence in a social chat.
Leap Year Advice Fails to Stop Girls From Jumping
Newspapers note that despite the year being divisible by four, advice to girls to beware before leaping is ignored as many still take the plunge.
Scornful Barbs Over Recession Slashed Prices
A customer teases a dealer about price cuts claiming to have considered the recession. The dealer asserts reductions are real. A quip about brains vs using them follows, alongside humorous exchanges about golf misfortune and a band’s pianist replacement.
New Office Boy’s Willingness Vexes More Than Old One
A witty observation notes that a willing fresh helper can irritate more than an unwilling veteran. The remark contrasts eagerness with experience in a humorous office dynamic.
Lamb of God and the final sacrifice in Christ
A religious reflection asserts that Christ’s crucifixion on Calvary provides a complete, once for all redemption. It contrasts Christ as the eternal Lamb of God with Old Testament animal sacrifices, which required repetition.
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Christ
Calvary
Christ Jesus
Walter Winchell on Broadway chili gossip reel flares
A collage of entertainment buzz and high-profile divorces. Notes name Zorina Balanchine, Jane Frazee, Arline Judge, Liz Whitney, Diana Barrymore, and Ruthless divorces plus industry chatter from Walter Winchell. Mentions Louisana Purchase tepping Ritz Tower and various Hollywood figures with speculative headlines.
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Zorina
Balanchine
Louisiana Purchase
Ritz Tower
Donald Coster
Walkill Prison
Jane Frazee
Frazee
Chicago
Groucho
Chico Marx
Scripps-Howard Gazettes
Wendell Willkie
Joe Adonis
Police Dept
Valentine
Nunnally Johnson
Saroyan
George Jean Nathan
D. Watts, Jr
Hollywood gossip and showbiz items mix with world news
The column catalogs celebrity marriages and romances including Dixie Dunbar and Gene Snyder, Hoot Gibson in Detroit for Barbara Bannister, and Myron Kirk’s Hollywood pool scene. It notes Orson Welles’s tax drama, Nazi activity in South America, and Viv Leigh’s Broadway week with multiple stage appearances.
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Dixie Dunbar
Gene Snyder
Hoot Gibson
Detroit
Barbara Bannister
the Bowery
W. Gardiners
Babs Beckwith
Florida
M. Loring
Royal Palm Club
Thrush
New York
Miami Beach
Jenkins
Toots Shor's
Myron Kirk
Myron
Hollywood
Anita
Santa
Orson
Welles
Clever crook woman bankrolled by married men finally jailed
A notorious blackmailer who extorted money from married men and a New England governor has been caught by John Law. A fed up man exposed her, ending a scheme lawyers believed could hush up any amount. She faces prison and a tarnished return.
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New England
John Law
Allied Relief Ball Raises $42 700 At Friday Event
The Allied Relief Ball Friday raised 42700 dollars as Joyce Mathews attended the fundraising function.
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Joyce Mathews
The Messiah's Sacrifice and Universal Salvation
The speaker asserts Jesus Christ's death on the cross as the sole redeeming sacrifice for all humanity. Since Christ has died for all, both saints and sinners may come to salvation, and believers are heirs of heaven through His unsearchable love. The sermon condemns spurning Calvary and living for worldly sin.
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Messiah
Jesus
Christ
Simon Peter
Mary Magdalene
Calvary
Police Open Case on Aquacade Attempted Murder
An open file reveals an attempted murder hushed last year at the Aquacade. The report names a pending investigation as part of the police department’s active cold cases.
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Aquacade
Chad Ballard
Florida
Alicia
Reynolds
Nancy Mae Woodbury
Tony DeMarco
The
Uni. of
Missouri
Portland Oregonian
E. P. Hoyt
Sally Fields
J. P. McEvoy
Charles E. Coughlin
Reader's Digest
Whitey” Dahl
Franco
Stork
Fdr
Birthday Dinner Enjoyable Affair at Bud Willingham Home
A large gathering celebrated Bud Willingham's birthday at his Cullman area home this Sunday. Guests included Mr and Mrs Lee Willingham and children from Cullman, Mr and Mrs Otto Willingham and children from Cullman, Mr and Mrs Robert Willingham and children from Cullman, Mrs Howard Horton and children from Decatur, Mr and Mrs Richard Willingham and children from Flint, Mr and Mrs Tommie Willingham and children from Flint, Mr and Mrs Nathan Smith from Cullman, George Williamson of Cullman, Mr and Mrs Kelley of Cullman, Mr Poff of Decatur, Mr and Mrs Tob Stroup and daughter of Austinville, Mrs Jess Brown of Cullman, and numerous friends. A delightful noon dinner followed.
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Bud Willingham
Lee Willingham
Cullman
Otto Willingham
Robert Willingham
Howard Horton
Decatur
Richard Willingham
Flint
Tommie Willingham
Nathan Smith
George Williamson
Kelley
Poff
Tob Stroup
Austinville
Jess Brown Cullman
Mail Carrier Buys Car With Penny Bucket
Dale Gussman a Huntington Indiana mail carrier saved pennies in a bucket during the year. He emptied the bucket this week and used 14000 coins worth about 140 dollars as a down payment at a local automobile agency for a car.
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Huntington
Ind
Dale Gussman
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the News
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Oe World
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Smith
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RFC
Aa’‘S
Watson
Wheeler-Lea
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Jimmy Byrnes
Barkley
Jc: Penney Co
Leroy McEntire
Dr. Clendening
Judith
Ruby
Hortense Wallace
J. H. Branum
Junius
Jerry
Edith
Scotland
Charlie
Walter Winchell
Daily Mirror
Man About Town
Arline
D. Topping
Topping
John Kadel
Wingfoot
Col. Gomez
Diamond Jim Brady
Gomez
H. Innes
Paramount
Chamberlain
Churchill
Mebbe
Wks
P. M
World Telly
Liz Whitney
Jack
Keno
Dick McGee
Muriel Vanderbilt
Diana Barrymore
J. Gerard, Jr
J. G. Jr
Lief Erickson
Doris Dudley
Lyle Talbot
Fifi D’orsay
Jim Braddock
Joe DiMaggio
Daily News
Larry Clintons
Stubbs
Jerham Hopkins
John Lowe
Ruby Keeler Jolson
Natalie Hall
Reno
Kay Foster
Betty Benjamin
Betty
Pop
May Healy
Civil Service Leader
Sherman Fairchild
Dorothy Sparrow
Phil Ammidown
Beatrice
Peggy Tibbett
Conover
Christine Fisher
Hamilton Andrews
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Eileen McKenny
Eileen
N. West
Beverly Hills
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