Daily Decatur notes 1910s-20s war worries and local events
A local Decatur column reviews national issues from 1912 to 1924 including national emergencies, war age limits, defense bonds, and food aid. It highlights Poppy Day May 31 with American Legion Auxiliary volunteers, Roosevelt's upcoming speech on work rights, and Dr Dan Gilbert urging stay out of a European war while warning of Nazi threats.
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American Legion Auxiliary
Decatur
Mr. Roosevelt
Dan Gilbert
Gilbert
DeWitt Mackenzie Urges US Japan Peace Talks Now
DeWitt Mackenzie argues it is an opportune moment for the United States and Japan to meet. He says Japan seeks relief from its China campaign and would accept a face-saving path to disengage if Washington supports a peace through formal channels.
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DeWitt Mackenzie
United States
Japan
China
Had Hitler Would Have Been Showman if Amusement Talent
The remark imagines an alternate history where Hitler applied his abilities to entertainment, speculating on potential fame as the world’s top showman.
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Hitler
Fortunes of War and the British Offensive Outlook
The piece argues fortunes of war hinge on British offensive action. It notes public columns debate Hitler’s offensive and Britain's need to strike back. It compares defense in war to football, saying a defensive stand must lead to an offensive moment for victory.
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Miler
Hitler
Britain
Steadman outlines Alabama Chamber dream of labor capital unity
Alabama State Chamber of Commerce president Steadman envisions bringing capital and labor closer in kinship. He spoke at a divisional meeting stressing cooperation over conflict, arguing success for labor and capital benefits Alabama and the nation and lamenting the lack of cooperation as a sad American sight.
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Steadman
Alabama State Chamber of Commerce
Alabama
United States
Pledge Fulfilled and Thanksgiving Proclaimed
The article recalls FDR's pledge about New Deal experiments and his willingness to admit error when experts failed. It notes Thanksgiving will proceed per the presidential proclamation in due form, while contrasting the president's growing view of some experiments as failures and hints at a future museum of noble trials.
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FDR
White House
Congress Moves Toward Sparkman TVA Land Bill
The piece notes Congress advancing a Sparkman sponsored measure allowing TVA to dispose of land for industrial and recreational development. It reports House approval and Senate committee favorable action, while acknowledging the bill may not be ideal but preferred to none. It emphasizes urgency in enabling TVA land use for progress.
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Congress
TVA
House Military Affairs Committee
House
Senate
Sparkman
Roosevelt plan to widen convoying and sea defense
Washington officials discuss Roosevelt’s substitute plan aimed at extending sea control beyond convoying. Berle warns of Germany challenging prices and the need for heavy taxes to subsidize exports as a broader conflict looms.
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Hull
Adolf Berle
Berle
Fort Knox
Germany
Hitler
Limestone County Caps Shaw Dinner Gatherings Report
Rev James Alan Ruff and Mrs Ruff of Clanton and Rev Walker By num and Hoyt Vasser shared Sunday dinner with Mr and Mrs J N Vasser. Mrs Robert Cagle of Huntsville visited relatives including Mrs Lilly Schaffers and Mrs George Vasser. Mrs L T Sanderson spent Tuesday with Mrs Julia Tetters. Mrs C L Sanderson of Decatur Route 3 visited with daughter Mrs Russell Thornberry and family. Mrs J N Vasser visited Fayetteville Tennessee over the weekend. Miss Balch spent Tuesday with Mrs Comer Cole and Mrs L C Blair. Mr and Mrs Davis Pike visited Mrs Jimmie Sanderson. Miss Alberta Worthey stayed with grandmother Mrs Rebecca Pepper. Mr and Mrs Grafton Pepper and children spent weekend with Mrs A L Pepper and family. Millard Sanderson of Sheffield visited his parents over the weekend.
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James Alan Ruff
Clanton
Walker Bynum
Hoyt Vasser
J. N. Vasser
Robert Cagle
Huntsville
Lilly Schaffers
George Vasser
L. T. Sanderson
Julia Teters
C. L. Sanderson
Decatur Rt 3
Grafton Pepper
A. L. Pepper
Millard Sanderson
Sheffield
L. Sander
Hope Grows For Cure of Diabetes
Dr. Elliot Joslin and Dr. Clendening discuss diabetes prevention and treatment. They note no human cure yet, but experiments hint at possible future control, with emphasis on aggressive management, foot care, and regular urine testing to catch relapse early. A dental question about tartar is answered bluntly.
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Elliot Joslin
Boston
Dia
Dr. Joslin
Joslin
Lubens and
Dohan
Best
How It Was Done Lashes Luscious Lips and Truths
A humorous tale blends vanity and dieting with a courtroom quip about cubic yards. The speaker cites beauty routines and sixteen days of effort, while a witness struggles to define a cubic yard as the judge improvises a three by three by three inkstand to test understanding.
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Devine
Country Things I Love From Progressive Farmer
A nostalgic verse list celebrates country life with references to Cherry Blossom Time Old Folks at Home The Old Oaken Bucket An Old Fashioned Garden and Down By the River Ageing and fishing evoke rustic pleasures in the reader’s memories.
Dr Clendening Aids Readers With Seven Health Pamphlets
Readers can obtain seven Dr Clendening pamphlets by sending 10 cents per pamphlet and a self addressed stamped envelope to Dr Logan Clendening care of this time The Pear. Titles include Three Weeks' Ties in Jet Indigestion and Constipation Reducing and Gaining Infant Feeding Instructions for the Treatment of Diabetes Feminine Hygiene and The Care of the Hair and Skin.
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Clendening
Logan Clendening
Ragtime Songs and Rural Vibes Fill Evening Page
A montage of farm songs and old tunes trails through a rural list of titles like Old Black Joe When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain and The Barn Dance. It evokes a nostalgic harvest home with references to cows plows fields and simple pleasure.
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Kentucky
Black Joe
Ned
Rockies
Quotable Jokes and Light-Hearted Snippets
A humor filled snippet lays out playful quips from a preacher to a mother and a classroom gag about the stomach. Jokes involve a Mrs versus smother mix up, a mud puddle and spring pants, and a punning exchange between artist and model. A Decatur mother references a living ex president in a home lesson.
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Decatur
H-m-m
Vacuum
Prank Dyes Goats Bright Blue In Birmingham
In Birmingham on May 21 Mrs. C. L. Green found her two goats dyed a vivid blue by unknown pranksters. The incident adds local color as residents react to the unusual animal makeover.
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Birmingham
Ala
C. L. Green
Walter Winchell on Broadway and ethics in journalism
Notes from a New Yorker Gene Fowler speaks at the University of Missouri School of Journalism urging a moral code for reporters while admitting his talk was mostly off the pitch. The AP newsroom reports on a East River collision and the misreading of victims names, plus vivid anecdotes about Clarke Robinson and British sailors touring New York City venues.
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Gene Fowler
School of Journalism
Univ. of Missouri
Fowler
Clarke Rovinson
Polo Grounds
Stadium
Radio City Music Hall
Jamaica Racetrack
New York City
Robinson
Broadway writer Joe Kesselring rises from stage to screen
Joe Kesselring, author of Arsenic and Old Lace, shifts from character acting to writing. After studios offered him $1200 weekly to return to Hollywood, he declined earlier offers, noting he once wrote the play as a serious murder drama before editors transformed it into a comedy.
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Joe Kesselring
Joe
Hollywood
New York
Kesselring
Crange
Lindsay
Canary Genevieve Rowe Sparks Nazi Exchange
The exchange portrays Adolf and Goebbels debating how to respond to a foreign correspondent who called Hitler a murderer and thief. Hitler asks Joe what to do and Goebbels suggests forcing the journalist to prove the accusation.
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Genevieve Rowe
Adolf
Goebbels
Hitler
Joe
Conversation Frays Over Luftwaffe Losses and Hitler Panic
In a late night talk, Fatzo is summoned to explain the loss of twenty Messerschmitts in a raid. Hitler frets about dwindling air strength as Goering questions the panic while Hitler warns of disaster and being outnumbered.
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Reuben
Goering
Doug Hertz
Fatzo
Hitler
Messerschmitts
Hermann
Tobacco Road’s Pulitzer Bid in 1933 Play Debated
A 1933 memo notes Tobacco Road could not win the Pulitzer for best play because it was a dramatization now in its eighth year, reflecting the prize’s stance on adapted works.
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Tobacco Road
Band man Joe Reichman caught in subway rush
In a crowded car Joe Reichman is jostled amid a chaotic subway scene. He unintentionally shoves a customer who retorts with a tease. Other unruly patrons mock a stage show as first-nighters while comments about Hollywood celebs and heat wave humor spill into the crowd.
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Joe Reichman
Roland Brown
Hollywood
Returned Tokyo Residents Toasted at Rockefeller Center
Wilfrid Pleiser Herald Tribune correspondent, earlier expelled from Tokyo, received a formal invitation from the director of the Japanese Institute in New York to tea at Rockefeller Center in honor of the returned residents of Japan.
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Wilfrid Pleiser
Herald Trib
Tokyo
New York
Rockefeller Center
Japan
Wilfrid
Radio Language Bugs and Static Benders
A managing editor lampoons radio operators and their faults. The piece mocks air-sick operators with bungled signals caused by bad batteries, denatured gin, or low power. It defines a bit-happy static-bender as someone who talks too much.
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Karl A. Kopetsky
Radio News
Hess Lands On Scottish Farm Like Fertilizer
Hess settles on a Scottish farm and blends with the fertilizer batch, a curious image of arrival and assimilation in a rural setting.
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Hess
Worthington Delivers Heroic Ninth Inning Home Run
Walter Worthington, first baseman, declared he would be the hero as he came to bat with the score tied in the ninth. He launched a center field home run, sealing the game for his team in Tarrant Alabama on May 21.
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Tarrant
Ala
Walter Worthington
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