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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1921
Page
5
Local notes list society meetings at First Baptist Church and the Christian Women’s Union with times around 2:30 p.m. plus bridge and book club gatherings. A poem by James Whitcomb Riley and multiple social updates cover travel, health, and upcoming W C T U conventions in Tuscaloosa with names including Mrs J W Sandlin and Mrs G C Walker.
An electroscope is used at Columbus Radium Hospital to locate two radium needles removed from a patient and burned with refuse. The needles valued at 2500 dollars were recovered from ash in an incinerator search.
A dainty child’s frock features fuchsia trimming and a simple cut with a waterline suggested by a fuchsia ribbon. Made of reese serge, it offers options to substitute materials like avetyn or broadcloth and vary the flower decoration.
Geo Henry Watson writes from New York praising the Albany Decatur Daily for its rising standards and metropolitan tone. He notes his Pulitzer studies at Columbia, naval service in World War I, Auburn graduate status, and plans to return to Alabama to pursue journalism with high expectations. The letter mentions interest in Ku Klux Klan sentiment among locals.
Alice Manchester of Brad Mass displays a brass horn shaped squash grown in her backyard at the Brockton Mass Fair. The squash drew praise and was described as featuring a brass horn appearance. Cole's Hot Blast Heaters offer coal bill reductions in their advertisement.
Rev Goodwin of Westminster church leaves Monday for Auburn Kentucky to lead a ten days meeting. In his absence Rev J P Cotton will occupy the pulpit Sunday October 23. D C Wohler is ill at his home in Borton Flats. T L Cartwright visits Lawrence County at the Preuit plantation. B M Walker, Palmolive soap representative, opens headquarters covering North Alabama. Jen B L Malone was in Birmingham yesterday.
Reading the piece by Wanda Barton on home making outlines current decorative bed spreads for rooms. It notes fabrics like satin, linen, satin crepe, damask, and antique jade trimming, with styles such as Star of Bethlehem, Turkish embroidery, and Persian prints for various rooms and budgets.
Leon Britten president of Birmingham Steel Corporation announces a receivership suit due to United States Shipping Board inaction. Assets estimated at 225000 with liabilities around 250000. John M. Bradley named receiver as creditors await repayment and reorganization expected once legal technicalities clear. The plant, built during the war for Mobile Shipbuilding, now operates commercially amid stalled board negotiations.
Reading fragment describes orange juice as freshly pressed and supplies in a room with unclear terms. The text appears garbled with phrases like there is jmptomy the wingy zie of the orange and lacks clear context or date.
Senator William S. Kenyon of Iowa declines President Harding's life appointment to the federal bench. He says he can serve the public best as a U S senator.
Mrs Edith Gould former wife of Prank Gould files to contest a divorce decree in New York courts. The exclusive photo shows Gould arriving from Franny to pursue the case.
Uncle Bhen quotes a tangled line about a man who hid his own way and questions whether winds and other things matter, suggesting a stray meditation on direction and purpose.
An OCR snippet shows references to footballs basketballs and an address or phone number for Georges. The text is incomplete but indicates a sporting goods or ad listing with a contact line.
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