Women’s Clubs Set Piano Contest Here
First district of the Alabama Federation of Women’s Clubs will sponsor a piano contest at Decatur High School on Monday at 10 a.m. Entrants must be high school girls whose mothers are federation members. The winner receives one week’s tuition to the Egyptian Music Camp at Du Quoin Illinois.
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Alabama Federation of Women’s Clubs
Decatur High School
Federation
du Quoin
Ill
Austinville
Bascom Scott
Austinville High School
Virginia Miller
Patsy Mitchell
Bascom
Parks Redwine
Thurman Knight
George Ledbetter
Harold Lentz
Doris Puckett
Faye Daniel
Jimmy Cartee
Joe Lee Hamilton
Willard J. Brown
J. A. Jones
Kansas Nebraska Act Creates Two Territories in 1854
The Kansas Nebraska bill of 1854 formed two new U.S. territories. Nebraska included parts of present North and South Dakota and much of Montana Wyoming and Colorado.
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United States
Nebraska
North and
South Dakota
Montana
Wyoming
Colorado
New York State Aging Population Shifts Since 1870
New York State had 168 442 people over 65 in 1870 and the current estimate places those aged 65 and older at about 1 450 000.
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New York State
Bride in New Jersey Manse Drawn Toward Simple Life
Joan Foster and Todd Hunter plan a church wedding despite a modest teaching salary. Family helps prepare a modest home in New Jersey while gifts and preparations overflow with town support. Annie the seamstress and relatives share duties as the couple imagines their future.
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Joan Foster
Todd Hunter
Todd
New Jersey
Joan
Betty
Foster
Jack
Diane
Don
Tom
New York
Michael
Poughkeepsie
Mrs. Hunter
Mrs.Brown
Manse
Elaine
City
Slipper Token And A Hopeful Gift From The Foster Family
In a quiet moment Joan receives from Annie a worn English coin to wear in her slipper for luck. Annie, once with a Virginia mistress, passes the relic to Joan as she enters the Foster family, hoping Joan proves worthy of their generosity and Todd. A note recalls the 1923 exile of Barbary Apes from Gibraltar and the keeper of the apes.
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Joan
Virginia
Annie
Todd
Gibraltn
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Jimmie Collier
Morgan County
Alabama
J. H. Gimmie Collier
Decatur
Ala
Oan Foster, Bride
Alice Ross Colner
Chapter
Annie Bannock
Pamela
Palisades
Hudson River
Texas
Jane
Gram
Lions Club
The
Ayla Potco
Davidson Coal & Feed Co
Moulton ST
ST Ral Butane
City Gas Department
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