Subscription Rates and Voting Machine Attention in 1948
A local newspaper column reviews subscription prices by carrier and mail for Alabama Florida regions and discusses voting machine legality. It explains paper ballots, illegal votes, and how challenges prevent tainted tallies, noting Attorney General guidance aiding counties with machines.
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Motor Revie Este Ie
Alabemea
Ja Ead
Florida
Seaday
Alabama
Grora
Secvica
Servisn Fe
Fourteenth Annual Farm Edition Highlights Wiregrass Farming
The Eagle presents its fourteenth annual Farm Edition with extensive farming coverage across the Wiregrass. It includes farming practices advice from extension service county agents and experienced farmers, features 4-H and Future Farmers of America youth, home demonstration clubs for Mrs Farmers, Farm Bureau and other farmer groups, plus expert articles and interviews with prominent farmers and specialists. The edition honors thousands of Wiregrass farm families who sustain local agriculture and the region’s backbone.
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Extension Service
Future Farmers of America
Attorney General Rules On Challenged Votes In Counties
The Attorney General requires challenged votes cast on paper ballots and placed in a separate box from the machine. Challenged ballots can be eliminated if not cast by qualified voters, allowing totals to be adjusted. Previously, challenged votes were collected with machine totals and not removable. The new rule aims to keep challenged ballots separate for potential subtraction.
Watered down satire on ABC board juke rules
An overheated column mocks ABC board plans to ban drunks from establishments by promising liquor with water. A character claims water, not alcohol, makes people drunk, then jokes that keeping water out would keep patrons sober, finishing with a chaotic, comic close.
Dewey Backing Vandenberg If 1948 Nomination Fails
In a cautious forecast on the GOP convention, sources say Governor Dewey may pivot his support to Senator Arthur Vandenberg if a Taft Dewey deadlock blocks the nomination. Vandenberg, 64 next month, faces health worries but keeps a broad foreign affairs stance that could win Willkie supporters as a second choice.
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Philadelphia
Michigan
Appealing to Philip drunk to Philip sober in South
The piece argues governors push civil liberties proposals, referencing ancient practices of debating important matters twice, drunk then sober. It critiques cooling off measures, notes Wakulla resolutions, and predicts Congress will decide the civil liberties issue with possible Senate cloture or filibuster dynamics.
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Philip
Wakulla
Herodotus
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Hornady
Rome
News-Tribune
Congress
Senate
Taft
FEPC
Political quotes and mottos from postwar era
A collage of quotes from lawmakers, entertainers, and public figures urging decentralization, tax policy, foreign policy shifts, and cultural views. Notable names include Sam Rayburn, Alexander Wiley, Truman, William Green, Homer Ferguson, Gladys Swarthout, Dwight Eisenhower, Gene Tunney, Martin Niemoeller, Victor Rubini, Albert W. Hakes, Roy White, James Petrillo, Calvin Coolidge, and references to court appeals and military discipline.
Editors Clash With Minority Demands in Bronx Victory
The piece surveys reactions to an American Labor win in New York's 24th Bronx district, arguing minority appeasement harms Democrats and harms Jewish, Negro, and Puerto Rican factions. It links President Truman and advisers to volatile minority policy stances and cites Alabama and Greenville editorials on prison reform and electricity costs as broader political reflections.
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House Expenditures Committee
Army
Universal
Fort Knox
U.M.T. Pioneer
Congressional Committee
U.I.T
GOP
Henry Wallace
Leo Isacson
Bronx
G.O.P
Massachusetts
John Heselton
New York
Joe Martin
Truman
Wallace
John McCormack
Veterans Administration
MacCormack
Congress
McCormick
House Appropriations Committee
G.O.P. Congress
James E. Webb
New York Bronx
United States
Washington
Palestine
Alabama Journal
Alabama
Mobile Press
Camellia Club Surprises Hueytown Alabama
In Hueytown Alabama a men s camellia club exists, unusual for the Birmingham district far from the camellia belt. Members keep plants sheltered in glass houses or covered, and plan to attend the Greenville Camellia Show where they will be welcomed.
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Pensacola
Mobile
Dothan
Greenville
Hueytown
Alabama
Birmingham
Advertising Results: Cats Flood Town After Ad Buy
A wholesale merchant in OPI advertised to buy cats, and the city saw a flood of felines. Boys with cats, housewives, and many felines arrived, with lines forming as the ad spread. The influx required four follow-ups to stop the unusual response.
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Opi
Loca
Sardine Order Mixup Sparks Witty Exchange
Grover Knox asked for a sardine aboard a cafeteria counter. The waiter offered ported or domestic sardines and quoted thirty-five cents for the domestic. Knox chose the domestic, quipping about sardines passage and ocean. The Lassive Tribune notes the humorous moment.
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Ocean
Gesver
Lassve Tribune
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