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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1930
Page
5
A satirical take questions the American Research Foundation bulletin predicting ultra low weekly costs for groceries for four. It mocks the idea of vast savings enabling overbuying and notes potential social fallout from such claims, including pressure on housewives and possible effects on divorces and crime.
Local Birmingham names report visitors, students leaving for universities, and family trips. F D Peebles returns from Mobile business, Harriett Irwin heads to Alabama University, several families visit Athens Florence Huntsville and Dalton, and students join universities in Tuscaloosa and Chapel Hill.
Local Pilot club members spent a pleasant weekend and Labor Day visit at Camp King near Vinemont. The Community Welfare Board will meet Tuesday at 9 30 a.m. at Mrs Govan Woodruffs home, with a note of the schedule change from Thursday. Colonel and Mrs W B Edmundson host a Monday 7 p.m. dinner for guests Mr and Mrs C L Saunders of Birmingham. Mrs Annie Morris hosts a Monday afternoon party honoring her niece Miss Ruby Lane Brown of Sumner Miss.
Miss Hilda Carpenter plans to leave this week for her sophomore year at the University of Alabama. Miss Fanny Brown Collier returns after summer with her parents to resume teaching in Birmingham. Miss Katherine O'Brien left Saturday for a short visit to Memphis and Tunica before entering D B T C in Cleveland. Friends here wish her success in her first year there.
Secretary Hurley and his party toured the Mississippi River system aboard the General Allen, the army river inspection boat, calling it a sacred cow during a survey in Minneapolis on September 1.
A brief note from the classifieds touts immediate gains and personal satisfaction through smart ad placement. The message emphasizes value, quick outcomes, and reader benefit in everyday commerce.
Adored fiancé Jack Winslow faces a plot by wealthy guardian Arnold Winslow to block his marriage to Elsa Chase. Detective Thorne and Dr. Kane clash over Elsa as Kane dies from poison. Jack confronts investigators Mitchell and Thorne while a shady eavesdropper looms.
Three U S Navy battleships the Florida Wyoming and Utah will conduct target practice in Southern waters the week of September 15 as they head toward discard under the London treaty their names to be scratched from the naval roster on October 1 or soon after.
A cryptic prompt invites readers to read tomorrow's startling chapter to learn if Jack knows the manner of Kane's death.
Four Nampa residents died after their small motor boat overturned in Payette Lake near McCall Idaho. Victims were Mr and Mrs Arthur L Betts and Mr and Mrs Co L Horner. Onlookers watched as rescuers were unable to reach them despite warnings to stay off the lake until winds subsided.
The Lookmont Tire company reports a new record for consecutive robberies. Thieves entered Saturday night, took about $30, damaged a safe with a sledge and tire tools, and left via a back door barred with an iron bar. Nearby auto establishments have also suffered recent break ins.
Eight killed and 20 injured in a train wreck in the US. Fires and protests abroad include a demonstration in Manila against a vice governorship appointment, and Poles in Warsaw opposing frontier revisions. Dr Nicholas Murray Butler comments on wealth in anti-communist warfare. Lillian Gish bitten while rescuing a puppy in Norwalk.
San Francisco reports a hero’s welcome awaiting Captain W. R. Meyer as his rescue ship Ventura nears home port with 91 of 317 Tahiti survivors aboard. Meyer completed a 750 mile run through uncharted seas hours before the Tahiti sank in the South Seas. Ventura’s master expected arrival late today.
Actress Lillian Gish was bitten on the hand in Norwalk Connecticut while trying to rescue her Sicilian puppy from a mongrel dog. She nursed the wound today and continued her stay in the area.
Classified section highlights budget deals and bargains for readers seeking value. Savings on products and services are emphasized with a focus on affordable everyday items and promotions.
Advert shows Jno B Hardy report after 20 years of indigestion using Adlerika. It promises ten minute relief by cleansing both upper and lower bowels, contrasting with partial cleansers. Caddell Drug Company ad copy.
Anne Nichols, author of Abie's Irish Rose, disclosed she ended her engagement to Marquis William de Lignemare and arranged for his rest cure at her Encino ranch in California. The Marquis, once a French embassy attaché, left San Pedro for the ranch after the split.
Senora Martha Lane Morlote American widow of a Cuban air officer languishes in Marianao prison awaiting espionage probe. Arrested Saturday for 72 hours she denied knowledge of charges claiming her husband’s death and mourning. she planned to sail to New York then Longmeadow Massachusetts to visit ill father.
New York gangster Jack Legs Diamond arrived in Antwerp aboard the Bergenland after a New York–to–Plymouth Cherbourg route. Police had sought him over a Brooklyn arsenal linked to the disappearance of gangster Harry Western but later signaled no further detention. Diamond, also known as Nolan, told the Cherbourg dispatch he wants to go forward.
Police department records show eighty four arrests made in August a sharp drop from prior months indicating a marked decrease in misdemeanor cases during the past weeks according to the docket.
The man claimed he had not heard police reports across the Atlantic and said no search was being conducted for him. He suggested restrictions would not stop his landing on the continent as his visit to Vichy aimed to seek a cure for stomach and liver troubles.
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