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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1951
Page
10
Hal Boyle recounts a husband’s suspicions about his wife’s lunch habits and weight gain. The piece humorously contrasts a wife’s claimed light noontime meals with a husband’s imagined feasts and the awkwardness of lunchtime scrutiny in a married life.
Parents urged to use Syrup of Draught to ease constipation in children and calm upset stomachs. Claims include overnight action and mood improvement, touting 17,000,000 bottles sold. Ends with advice for adults.
TVA will present Rockwood Tennessee a deed to a 55 acre park on Watts Bar reservoir in a ceremony to be scheduled. The effort united Rockwood residents and Abell Valley New Hope farmers with civic clubs to create a community recreation site. Since 1944 local support and donor labor have funded park improvements totaling over 12000 dollars.
The passage recalls a humorous exchange about gender roles in the workplace. A husband jokes about wives having lunch choices, comparing a heavy office routine to a light, imagined midday meal. The tone is light and satirical.
A TVA report shows rural power distributors operated 86,300 miles of line at year end 1950, up 11,200 miles from the previous year. About 5,000 additional miles were under construction or funded to reach 22,200 new consumers as of December 31, 1950.
In Australia the bald eagle reportedly trails white hunters hoping to feed on offal from the kill, but avoids black hunters who also discard offal.
The plan outlines a community project on the lakefront featuring a swimming beach and bathhouse, picnic grounds, water and sewage facilities, and parking areas to serve residents and visitors.
May marks the second anniversary of Johnsonville steam plant construction. Concrete placement exceeded 100000 cubic yards in the month. About 10000 tons of structural steel has been erected and 2500000 cubic yards of excavated material moved since 1949. Boiler erection on the first four units is about 75 percent complete. Construction continues on coal handling, control building, and condensate water structures. Approximately 1800 employees are on the project.
The contract helicopter will be used on a demonstration basis for larviciding in the Kentucky reservoir during the upcoming malaria control season.
It is estimated that 20 percent of the nation's steel and 30 percent of its pig iron are produced in Pennsylvania, chiefly in the industrialized western region.
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