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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1933
Page
2
The President addresses the American people with a message described as free of guile. His plain meanings are highlighted as a reason for broad public support, with the sense that national troubles seem to ebb when he speaks.
A column recounts John Pratt of Cugrokee County as inventing the first practical typewriter with a patent and fronting editorial use at the Gadsden Times. Generals Meeks and Stanley corroborate his role, while the Montgomery Journal cites Britannica on Alabama’s credit and a strong 1930s anti depression-era buy now rhetoric.
A King Features Syndicate column by Arthur Brisbane discusses advertising rates and a hopeful, resilient outlook. It reflects on commercial trends and persistent optimism in business messaging.
The piece notes Lord Beaverbrook’s London Daily Express and its rising circulation, compares ad rates with the Times, and promotes the American Weekly as a bargain. It also discusses U.S. gold bids, currency value, and mentions leaders like Stalin and Mussolini, ending with a critique of global inflation.
An old notice reports that sample copies of the Sunday edition of a Daily will be mailed to rural boxes via the local post office. It notes meat markets will close on Sundays in the Twin Cities per a sheriff J W May order under the state Sunday observance act. Secretary Weeks plans to inspect Muscle Shoals nitrate plants and speak from a train platform near Decatur.
Rod Berthold narrates Boris E. Skvirsky a 12 year unofficial Soviet ambassador in Washington shaping the upcoming Roosevelt Litvinov negotiations on Russian recognition. Skvirsky a vivid talker with rare insight guides preliminaries while surviving exile and wartime shifts in a life spanning Odessa Vladivostok and Australia.
R. P. McEntire and his son LeRoy left this morning for a business trip to Fayetteville Tennessee to meet clients and discuss plans.
Washington October 27 The names of former President Hoover and cabinet members resurfaced in testimony before the Senate committee probing mail contracts. Chairman Black questioned C H C Pearsall about possible talks with Andrew Mellon during negotiations for ships from the shipping board Pearsall said he did not see Mellon or any representative.
A 1938 NEA Service verse notes Oklahoma physician Barbs Murray dropping cod liver oil from state patient meals. It claims children will vote for him and jokes about prohibitionists targeting Leer for breakfast. Hollywood bets and early Virginia history are playfully referenced amid unemployment and street grass sprouting.
In Worcester Massachusetts two patient men after seven years work produced a twenty eight page verse volume of the Rubaiyat the smallest book in the world weighing less than a one carat diamond and smaller than half a postage stamp printed in ordinary type could contain more than men know about why we are here and where we go when we die. The American Bartenders Institute has a class for good looking young women learning the art of drink mixing. The photograph shows young ladies at a bar with cocktail shakers receiving instruction from an old fashioned bartender. They are pretty girls and learn easily but mixing drinks should be a man’s business in this country and young women should
A humor column fills space with a moral push to keep moving forward. It recounts a colored preacher who visits a congregant’s home and a farmer who jokes that weather is simply what he sees outside his door.
In a stylish dog kennel office a young woman asks for a pet while the handsome clerk regrets the boss’s strictness. The narrator muses that if editors strike in the United States, a top demand would be larger and finer waste paper baskets.
A poem and jokes depict the government as the only power to disburse relief during price swings in grains and meats. A grocer sells cigars to a Scotchman who bargains over pricing. Humorous lines contrast thoughts that fail due to different measures and a Brushville saying on two kinds of people.
Albert H. Wiggin former head of Chase National Bank resigns his $100,000 annual pension amid Senate banking committee scrutiny. Pecora questions Sheldon Morgan about a $40,000,000 Cuban securities issue tied to Cuban deficit.
A fish tale recounts a fisherman who fed a snake a liquor dab to release a frog, then later saw the snake return with a larger frog. A witty exchange follows about inventing work and patent infringement.
Doctors warn harsh laxatives harm the bowels and organs. Liquid laxatives offer controllable dose, non habit forming use, and pleasant taste with reliable action. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin is recommended for gentle, measured relief.
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