Bible Thought for Today and Local Notes
A Bible Thought for Today column discusses patience and faith with a note on avoiding quarrels. It mentions Danzig's status as a Free City, polio in South Carolina, and the Decatur Chamber of Commerce inviting membership. Atticus Mullin advocates constitutional amendments. Courtland plans milk routes and a future cheese plant.
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Decatur Chamber of Commerce
Decatur
Chamber of Commerce
Courtland
Alabama on national stage boosts state’s civic lineup
In a lively regional analysis the piece notes Alabama’s influence in national government. It highlights Speaker Bill Bankhead from Moscow, Justice Black on the Supreme Court bench, and that five of 96 senators hail from Alabama with all house members born in the state. It also cites two of Alabama’s nine House members born in Morgan County.
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Alabama
White House
Bill Bankhead
Moscow
Justice Black
Supreme Court
United States Senate
House
Morgan County
Reapportionment Echoes in Alabama Politics
The writer references ongoing reapportionment talk in Alabama and hints at editorial critique of politicians in the region. Mentions Governor Happy Chandler and John L. Lewis in a satirical tone about Kentucky politics and peaceful growth.
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Alabama
South Alabama
Happy Chandler
Chandler
John L. Lewis
Kentucky Sol
Kentucky
Lewis
Felicitations for Mrs Lyons on 90th birthday in Decatur
The Daily extends felicitations to Mrs. B Lyons who turned 90 on May 16. A longtime Decatur resident, she helped start and grow local business ventures and supported civic and church efforts with loyalty and faith in her town.
Lindbergh censorship at Maxwell Field stirs criticism
A press blackout and phone ban during Col. Lindbergh's Maxwell Field visit drew sharp editorials in The Montgomery Advertiser The Montgomery Journal and The Tuscaloosa News denouncing the move as a dangerous precedent and an insult to public reporting and civil liberty.
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Col. Lindbergh
Maxwell Field
Lindbergh
Montgomery Journal
The
Journal
Tuscaloosa
Congress pursues business tax appeasement plan amid stalled roosevelt stance
In Washington May 18 the author projects Congress will pass a tax appeasement program, with the House Ways and Means Committee backed by a substantial majority. Morgenthau and Hanes are expected to support the plan, while the president resists but cannot veto all bills. The piece notes political maneuvering, neutrality debates, and recent wheat referendum revisions as context.
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Washington
Congress
Harrison
Heaven
Hell
Doughton
Treasury
Morgenthau
John Hanes
Hares
Senate
Finance
Pat Harrison
Uspd
New Deal
Hanes
Business Advisory Council
Roosevelt
Neutrality Bloc
Eden
Wickham Steed
Churchill
H. C. Peterson
University of Oklahoma Press
U.S
Norway
Sweden
Denmark
Holland
United States
More student candidates for Southern Presbyterians ministry
Louisville on May 18 reported by Dr. Henry H. Sweets that the number of student candidates for the Southern Presbyterian ministry is larger this year than at any period since 1935, per the church's annual committee report on Christian education and ministerial relief.
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Louisville
Southern Presbyterian Church
Henry H. Sweets
Christian Education
Liver cures pernicious anemia says Dr Clendening
Dr Logan Clendening explains that pernicious anemia can be managed with liver extract and iron. Liver extract keeps patients healthy, while iron boosts blood after large losses. combined remedies are discouraged.
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Clendening
Logan Clendening
Eyes on the Wanderlust Dog Aims Home
A neighbor reports a dog in a yard and the owner rings the phone. The dog acts on the call, racing to return home with rapid obedience as the exchange unfolds in a humorous scene.
Promise Keeping and Healing in Hard Times
A reflective piece urges keeping promises and thinking before replying. It counsels prayer and songs to ease sorrow, noting grace lifts spirits. It frames hardship as temporary with beauty arising, and hints at a letter from a woman in handwriting.
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Grace of Heavenly Mercy
1 Years Ago Today and Local Notes From May 1927
Bernard Benson a Birmingham Southern student will return home next week to spend the summer with his parents. Mrs Carl Arantz and baby return Saturday from Akron Ohio after visiting relatives. Phil Dinsmore spent Wednesday in Hartselle on business. Mrs J D Bush to host Cotaco Club this week. B A Turner in Birmingham today. Leroy McEntire improved after an operation at Benevolent hospital.
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Bernard Benson
Birmingham Southern
Carl Arantz
Baby Will
Akron
Ohio
Phil Dinsmore
Hartselle
J. D. Bush
Cotaco Club
Leroy McEntire
Benevolent Hospital
Changes Studied As Lindbergh Tests US Air Power
Washington May 18 A congressional drive to alter the army air corps expansion program gained headway today as Col. Charles A Lindbergh testified that Germany excels the United States in military aviation and urged changes in policy.
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Washington
Army Air Corps
Charles A. Lindbergh
Germany
United States
Walter Winchell on Broadway and Private Papers of a Cub Reporter
Walter Winchell outlines media and Broadway gossip from Miriam Verne to Mitzi Mayfair and Lew Brown. The piece traces Verne’s rise via dance training, a Europe trip with Hitler tangentially mentioned, and industry banter about actors, agents, and sensational headlines.
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Miriam Verne
Pittsburg
Hitler
Lew Brown
Mitzi Mayfair
Brown
la Verne
Mitzi
Verne
Europe
Roosevelt Keeps Nation Calm Before Preakness News
The piece recalls Fitzsimmons splitting rents with jockeys Stout and Donoso amid the Johns Town win, while Roosevelt’s diplomacy steadies nerves about war with Japan. It notes the King and Queen of England visit, Italian fascism, and sly social gossip about public figures and sharpers.
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Japan
Roosevelt
Rome-Berlin
Duce
Italy
Germany
Saito
Reddinger fined after assault. St Louis beats Cincy next day
Paul Reddinger a Cincinnati pitcher was fined eight thousand dollars for assaulting Rob ert E Cond on and the following day was shelled for ten hits in four innings by St Louis. Cond on says he felt assaulted.
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Paul Reddinger
Cincy
Rob
E. Condon
St. Louis
Condon
Massachusetts State College
Pasadena
Maury May
Congo
San Antonio
LaGuardia
Congress
Mexican show gal flaunts gem gifts from emirate prince
Sofia Alvarez, a Mexican show gal recently returned from the Old Country, said she wore $25,000 in gems given by a Mohammedan prince whose name she could not recall. She referred to him as Daddy.
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Sofia Alvarez
Senorita
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