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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1936
Page
2
A quirky 1930s style guide extols thoroughly chilled salads with little water on the surface. It prescribes wrapping greens in cheesecloth, quick wire baskets, and various meat and vegetable combinations with mayonnaise for hearty, economical meals.
A daily menu lists meals across breakfast lunch and dinner. Breakfast includes orange juice cereal with figs toast milk and coffee. Lunch features tomato bouillon crackers ham salad rye bread strawberries milk and tea. Dinner offers broiled liver and bacon mashed potatoes creamed onions lettuce with French dressing cherry pie milk and coffee.
Stocks closed in a modestly irregular tone as volume hovered near 350,000 shares. Gains for Columbian Carbon and several major names were limited while many issues held steady or slipped slightly amid speculation over the Supreme Court decision and potential tax policy changes.
Stocks show an irregular session with a shuffled list and dull trading. Bonds are uneven as French obligations improve while currencies fall and foreign exchange is mixed. Cotton and grain markets are quiet with no notable trading. wheat deliveries for May are listed as Saree and lake shipments complete. prices are dull with a 9.50 nominal top for some items.
Chicago market notes show May futures at 0.92 percent with highs and closes around 98 to 93.14. Poultry prices list various weights and breeds. hens, fryers, broilers, ducks, geese with figures from 12 to 27 cents per pound.
Potatoes listed by grade and state from Chicago on May 16 show U S shipments at 588 with dull, slightly weaker tone. Prices ranged from 1.50 to 3.25 per cwt for various grades and regions including Alabama Louisiana Mississippi California Idaho Wisconsin Minnesota Ohio and cobbler varieties.
N O spots New Orleans on May 16 reports Spot cotton closing steady two points lower. Sales 1 212, low middling 11 65, middling 11 65, good middling 12 25. Receipts 1 819, stock 382 132.
Liverpool May 16. Cotton 5,000 bales, including 1,100 American. Spot good business done with prices up two points. American grades quoted: strict good middling 7.28, good middling 6.98, strict middling 6.78, middling 6.58, strict low middling 6.28, low middling 6.03, strict good ordinary 6.83, good ordinary 5.53. Futures closed quiet and steady.
David P. Ritter of Crichton and Frank Hall of Lincoln, University of Alabama students, are in a local hospital in serious condition after an automobile accident late Friday night. They were passengers in a rented car with three other students. Ritter and Hall were the only ones hurt.
Six thousand physicians and surgeons were en route to their homes today after a review of the year’s progress in medical science at the American Medical Association convention in Kansas City.
The Decatur High junior class hosted a senior dinner party in Central High gymnasium. The room featured green and white decorations and tables for four. About two hundred people, including faculty, enjoyed a three course dinner and nightclub style entertainment by Cooper Wellstansaath and the orchestra.
The article discusses amortization in insured mortgages and the FHA appraisal process. It highlights the installment plan reducing debt retirement hazards, stabilizing values, and offering a systematic, thorough appraisal to back lender and borrower trust. It emphasizes social benefits of well financed homes.
In Alameda on May 16 Joseph Andrew Callahan, a 30 year old retiree unfamiliar with flying, climbed into a mechanic’s monoplane and was spun aloft by mistake. The craft circled for 15 minutes before a rough landing, prompting a charge of taking the plane without consent amid stunned airport staff.
Clarence Jennings of Decatur route 3 is back home after six months of treatment at the U S Veterans hospital in Tuscaloosa for nervous disorders. He reports improved health and happiness to be among old friends.
In Burlington Vermont on May 16 a wedding celebration was interrupted when Eva Lacourse, 24, was shot while talking with Maurice Poulon, 30, a former suitor and guest. Poulon fled and was later found badly wounded.
The P T A of Decatur Negro high school will stage a program tomorrow at 4 PM featuring the Draper sisters Ruth and Naomi presenting a wardrobe trunk prize for raising the highest senior class amount. The Negro singers under ident Owens and Instructor O L Jones perform with elementary and high school choral groups, plus a saxophone solo by Dr Patterson. Alfreda C Gibbs of State Teachers College Montery and Fisk University will play a piano selection. Rev C L Dunn Sadie Swift Instructor Mayme Irwin Inna McLin will give readings with special seats for white friends.
A liquor dealer in Alabama is not expected to receive a federal alcohol permit. The decision signals possible enforcement actions as the administration tightens control on licenses in the state.
R E Tuttle district supervisor for the alcohol tax unit announced no changes in relations with wholesale liquor dealers in dry states. He said a Birmingham report of a crackdown was unfounded and that the unit remains an enforcement and tax collection body.
The United States on behalf of the Tennessee Valley Authority seeks answers from non resident defendants Annie Lee Washington Edmund W Washington Millie D Gilbert S E Gilbert Bennie Drew Brown and William Andrew Brown in the Northern District of Alabama Northeastern Division Huntsville. They are ordered to appear by June 22 1936 to respond to the petition and assert any claim to the land in question.
Fire began in a basement store room of Silvers Department Store in Montgomery at 5 am and by 9 am caused an estimated $100000 damage. Firemen kept the blaze contained to adjoining rooms with smoke damage to nearby Dexter Avenue shops. Manager R G Bishop attributed the loss conservatively to an overheated refrigerator motor.
Charles W Mathews former master mechanic of the L and N shops arrived for a few days visit in Decatur after moving to Louisville Kentucky.
The court orders the condemnation of 13.2 acres described as the E of the B of the NW of the NE in Section 14 Morgan County Alabama. The parcel runs from the NE corner of the SW of the NE, 440 feet south, 330 feet west, 440 feet north, and 330 feet east to begin. Publication required weekly for three weeks in Decatur Daily starting May 16, 1936.
The Probate Court of Morgan County Alabama notifies owners or unknown owners to appear at the next term starting June 8 1936 to show cause why a decree for sale of listed real estate should not be made to cover taxes assessed plus costs. The notice lists delinquent owners and nonresident owners by beat with amounts and some property descriptions.
At the 105th convention of the Episcopal church in the diocese of Alabama Rev. Peter M. Dennis and Atlee H. Hoff of St. John's church were elected delegates to the provincial synod of Sewanee to be held in New Orleans in October. Attendees from St. John's included Rev. Dennis Henry Good Mr and Mrs H B Beard Mr and Mrs Atlee H Hoff and Mr and Mrs R E Orr. public notices and community events follow including services at Ninth Street Methodist and absence of First Baptist due to pastor's convention, births at Benevolent Society Hospital and other local notes.
Washington officials warn the Tydings bill worsens a Puerto Rican crisis by tying independence to a four year transition and immediate trade and funding shocks. The move triggers renewed independence fervor, with a predicted plebiscite tilt and likely political violence unless Congress amends the measure.
The auxiliary sets contest and junior contest are scheduled for Monday and Tuesday at the Princess venue. Entered candidates include Lula Mae Boggs Mary Ethels Williams Marjorie Irwin Mary Lewis Kathryn Timberlake Louise Argend Evelyn Childs Lois Williams Edna Fay Jones Jene Jones Connie Blackwell Helen Ross Wilodene Abel Mary Clay Price Christine Joiner Doris Ashe Jessie Wilson Howland Margaret Shelton Connie Sheats Jane Todd Nancy Thompson Laverne Chandler Alice Wilson Thelma Barnes Lucille Sherrill Earlene Slate Elizabeth Ann Drake Eleanor Vines Doris Laubenthal Dora Caudill Opal Holland Mary Francis Rauschenberg Virginia Hardin Tootsie Bell Louise Walker Ira Ruth Markham Jene Wood Mildred Ashe Virginia Fox.
Classified notice offers two rooms for rent at 423 Sherman Street with contact via phone 791 M.
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