Eleanor Parry Contemplates Suburban Life and Writing
In a February afternoon scene Eleanor Parry juggles writing a short story with domestic plans. Her husband Phil favors suburban social life and the couple discuss neighborly expectations and Eleanor’s evolving ambitions as she considers a future focusing on women who quietly uplift society.
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Eleanor
Evening Mail
Phil
Jessica
Nell
the Holbrooks
Mommie
Daddy
Phillip Parrish
John
Teach
Rome
Two North Alabama Women to Receive Arts Degrees at Stephens College
Miss Jean Constance Gray of Decatur and Miss Mary Vance Walker of Huntsville will receive Associate in Arts Degrees from Stephens College in Columbia Missouri on May 30. Miss Maude Adams will deliver the commencement address.
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North
Alabama
Stephens College
Columbia
Maude Adams
Jean Constance Gray
R. H. Gray
Jackson St
Decatur
Mary Vance Walker
J.F. Walker
Adams Avenue
Huntsville
Pendergast to plead guilty in tax case in federal court
Kansas City Democratic Boss Tom Pendergast to enter a guilty plea on income tax evasion charges in a federal case. He and his lawyers, with U S District Attorney Maurice Milligan and Judge Merrill F Otis, discussed terms before Monday court. The deal would suspend further tax investigations for 1933 34 and 37 but may still bring up to five years in prison and fines.
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Kansas City
Tom Pendergast
T. J. Pendergast
Otis
the Star
Pendergast
Government
Star
Singing Event Highlights Local Sunday Afternoon
The community recalls a Sunday singing here with several residents attending from Hulace. A Friday night Athens quartet concert drew positive reactions. Various residents visited relatives, hosted guests, and spent weekends with family members across Morgan County.
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Hulace
Cecil Tanner
Esther Tanner
Elmus Rutledge
M. McKee
Athens Quartet
Betty Bartlett
Virgil Smith
Leona Smith
Carrol McKee
Clara Jean Oden
Hilda Weaver
Bessie Hamilton
Eloise Tanner
Lorene Lewis
William Lewis
John Brooks
Floy Woodard
Wanda Self
Clara Dobbs
Frann Self
J. W. Arthur Claimed By Death At Pulaski
J W Arthur a well known resident of Pulaski Tennessee died Friday at 11 oclock Funeral services and interment will be held today in Pulaski He is survived by a son Eugene Arthur of Decatur two sisters Mrs Roy Poff and Mrs J N Adams and one brother Tom Arthur all of Decatur
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J. W. Arthur
Pulaski
Tenn
Arthur
Eugene Arthur
Decatur
Roy Poff
J. N. Adams
Tom Arthur
Daily Crossword Puzzle Across and Down Clues
A scrambled crossword with clues across and down for a daytime puzzle page. Readable entries include 1 across Bleats as a 21, 5 faulty France, 10 Scottish, 23 Go away Gaelic slang, 11 Line used to, 24 Famous fasten, 27 Doctrine sail to the, 29 Symbol for gafferbium, 13 Stage, 30 Employ settings, 33 A constella, 15 A burr in iron wood, 34 Epoch, 16 Outcast, 35 To be class in hidden Japan, 37 Marsh birds, 17 A peck, 39 To throw, 19 Watch from one's secretly chair, 20 Seventh, 41 Studies note of the, 42 Sustains scale, 43 A whirlpool. Down clues include Harasses Teutonic, 2 Pertainin pantheon, 6 Mother, 3 At sea T Vex, 4 Japanese, 8 Trans comgresses, 5 The chief, 9 Break, 12 System of measures used by the 28 Abodes of birds, 30 Cutting tool, 17th cen tury phil kimps osophers, 31 celestial, 14 The hard body pl outer layer, 32 Former of the teeth, 34 Without feet, 18 A bird, 36 New Zealand water parre, 21 Timely, 22 Habitual, 38 Frozen drunkard, 25 A myth, 40 Affirmativ.
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France
Ners
Japan
Tury
Phil Kimps
You Can't Take It With You at Princess Theatre
Frank Capra directs the Columbia production adaptation by Robert Riskin of the Kaufman Hart Pulitzer play at the Princess Theatre. The pictured cast includes Halliwell Hobbes as a fireworks iceman, Donald Meek as a mask maker, with Mary Forbes and Edward Arnold among the principal players.
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Frank Capra
Princess Theatre
Columbia
Robert Riskin
Halliwell Hobbes
Donald Meek
Mary Forbes
Edward Arnold
State highway patrol bids on new blue gray uniforms
The Alabama state finance department studied bids for 150 new blue and gray uniforms to replace olive drab. Twelve firms submitted bids on 300 breeches 450 shirts and 15 caps. Delivery is within 21 days after contract award, per the purchasing department.
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Montgomery
Ala
State Highway Patrol
State Finance Department
No Noah Musical Rehearsal Derailed by Varied Animals
In Chapel Hill on May 20 the dress rehearsal for Noah began with the elephant split into front and hind halves as the front half was sidelined by chickenpox. The production continued with an understudy stepping in to carry the scene forward.
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Chapel Hill
N. C
Straw Hat Day Proclaimed As Spring Winds Hit Pocatello
Pocatello Idaho designated Friday as straw hat day. Snow fell and wind roared through town from 25 to 35 mph while the temperature dipped to 42 degrees.
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Pocatello
Idaho
Poppy Day Observance With Handcrafted Memorial Poppies
The American Legion Auxiliary received a supply of handmade red poppies from the Tuscaloosa Veteran Hospital for Poppy Day on May 27. Mrs. A. A. Parker leads the Poppy committee arranging the crepe paper flowers, each unique as crafted by disabled veterans to honor World War dead and democratic defense.
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Armory
American Legion Auxiliary
France
Belgium
Veteran Hospital
Tuscaloosa
Mra. A
John McCrea
British Legion
Leg broken as scaffold collapses at Union Hill School
Filbert Weaver of 618 Fourth Avenue West, a Decatur resident and custodian of county school funds, was injured when a scaffold at Union Hill School No. 61 collapsed Friday at about 4 20 PM. He received a crushed left leg and was removed to Benevolent Society Hospital. his condition was listed as satisfactory.
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Filbert Weaver
Fourth Avenue
West
Decatur
Benevolent Society
Union Hill School
Weaver
Wholesale indictments target insurance-murder ring
The Commonwealth cleared the deck for mass arraignment of a dozen charged with murder and manslaughter in wholesale indictments from an insurance-murder syndicate probe. Twenty eight bills against eight men and four women cover five or more deaths in eastern states over ten years. Twelve others are held. Arraignment is set for Tuesday with quick trials expected and some pleas likely.
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Philadelphia
the Commonwealth
Vincent P. McDevitt
Death claims AP obituary editor Melvin Coleman
Melvin E. Coleman aged 63, longtime biographical editor for the Associated Press, died of a heart ailment yesterday at his White Plains home. He supervised the preparation of thousands of obituary sketches.
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New York
Melvin E. Coleman
Associated Press
White Plains
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