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Miami faces a rare December cold snap as a severe weather record. The piece notes 142 Southern Senators and Congressmen who could filibuster the Wagner Costigan anti lynching bill threatening counties with fines. Meanwhile a Navy search for Charles Uim and two companions ends after seven days near Honolulu, with their wives in Australia unwilling to give up. The report laments the cruel cost of fame on families.
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Alabama Power pays taxes before Christmas to aid teachers
The Selma Times Journal notes Alabama Power Company is paying ad valorem taxes early at the request of educators. About $1,300,000 is due January taxes, with more than $600,000 going to county schools. The firm’s total state tax contribution this year reaches $2,200,000, TVA not listed among taxpayers.
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Selma Times-Journal
Alabama Power Company
Selma
TVA
Is There A Santa Claus Virginia O Hanlon Myth Reprinted
A long quoted editorial reply to Virginia O Hanlon's question about Santa Claus, detailing that Santa exists as surely as love and generosity. The Abany Herald reproduces the Sun piece with apologies for repetition, noting its enduring resonance and the value of childlike faith and imagination.
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Santa Claus Faith and a Child Prodigy Debate
A column contrasts belief in Santa with unseen realities and celebrates faith and wonder. It then profiles a seven year old New York prodigy with an IQ near 196, noting possible future genius but warning about a compromised childhood and the loss of normal youth. The piece cites the Vicksburg Post.
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New York Day By Day In Brisk Town Stories
New York, December 13. They were discussing small town characters the spiteful fencers the long married couple who spoke only through their daughter and the wife who.
Man Who Feared Darkness and a Treasury Box Score
A Kentucky tale of a man who killed his best friend in youth and lived in contrition then death after choosing lit places to work. Treasury data show 1933 results: wages and profits rose little while gains from real estate and partnerships grew by 610 million dollars. The piece notes exiles, Hollywood figures, and a reshaping of the New Deal era.
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Washington
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German travel curbs tighten currency outflow
Berlin dispatch details sweeping Reichsbank rules restricting Germans and foreigners from taking foreign currency abroad. Travelers may carry at most 410 marks, with limited allowances by letter of credit. Foreign travel becomes largely impossible for most Germans. foreigners face a 10 mark limit, with rare 50 mark exceptions. German students abroad face tightened remittance access.
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Ticker Tape Detective Unveils New Deal Reform
Two unpubli cized investigators work at SEC headquarters reading Wall Street ticker tapes to spot pool operations. They claim to detect an ordinary pool action within 20 minutes on the New York floor and replay the tape backwards at day’s end to confirm nothing is missed.
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New York
Peacemaker hints at labor capital New Deal policy talks
Ed McGrady, ally of Mike Perkins, urged a joint committee from the U S Chamber of Commerce AFL and National Manufacturers Association to bolster understanding on New Deal labor legislation. Prospects for forming such a committee look decent despite ongoing bargaining.
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Flashes of LIFE and other small news bites
A collage of brief items from LIFE era clippings. Lowry Smith, 26, partially paralyzed, hunts a buck from a stump and scores a 12 point deer. NYC Kiwanis members face a 2 percent sales tax on luncheon tickets. Alimony payments reach $263,000 for 11 months, up from 1933. Atlanta workers receive a 25 cent an hour “present” for a rush remodel. A Baltimore man spent 11 Christmas dinners in jail. Fort Hays College tensions rise over spelling contests. NRA hearings spark controversy over term usage. Prohibition era code quirks and misprints surface in a discussion of quota prosecutions.
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Atlanta
NRA
How's Your Health by Dr Ingo Goldstein
A medical piece outlines normal versus high blood pressure, its causes, and the distinction between secondary and essential hypertension. Advice emphasizes conservative living, weight reduction, temper control, and forgetting one’s condition to aid recovery. The article also reviews Universal films including The Man Who Reclaimed His Head and The President Vanishes with notes on war critique in cinema.
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Claude Rains Stars in The Man Who Reclaimed His Head
Hollywood notes Claude Rains pursues a third Oscar bid for best performance of 1934 in The Man Who Reclaimed His Head set in 1915 Paris. He plays Paul Verin a humane diplomat used by Henri Dumont to promote peace until Dumont betrays his ideals for war profits and courtship of Verin’s wife.
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Reconstruction coat on display at Florence college museum
Florence State Teachers College unveiled a homespun coat from the Reconstruction era. The cotton came from Wilkerson C Bowen of Crooked Oak in Colbert county, spun and woven by his wife Mary Bowen, with Mrs Susan Vaughan as curator noting the stitches rival modern machine work.
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin a Hit Serial in Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires readers embrace Uncle Tom’s Cabin as a major Norte Americana literary work in a magazine serial. The piece is touted as one of the greatest works of American literature.
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