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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1909
Page
3
The Birmingham Ledger warns that the common house fly causes millions in disease costs and urges action. Protect homes with screens, empower health officers, and keep the city clean to prevent epidemics and ensure lasting health.
A collection of aphoristic passages exploring belief, culture, wealth, art, and society. Notions on truth, ego, ignorance, and the role of labor, religion, and education are presented in compact epigram form.
In a Georgian diary the writer recounts planning a lion hunt in Africa, noting trains, a 750 native caravan, and encounters with lions along the Uganda line. He describes near misses, a missed shot, and an urge to return home after a day of stalking kingly beasts.
In a morning commotion ten natives held onto a large lion's tail to escape it. Umtaw, a M Bongo who learned English in musical comedy, fired and killed the animal as it dragged them from the camp. He notes the main danger is getting in front of a running lion.
A Boston Transcript quip column mocks business fortunes with speakers across professions. The bee ger undertaker riding master druggist author man on the dump bandsman athlete bottler parson tailor all report their fortunes in brisk punchlines.
A French general’s wife, famed for sharp tongue, orders an old servant who served in wars to leave. The servant bursts into dramatic gratitude then, with sudden compassion, begs to stay, telling the general he must remain.
A concerned speaker questions a young girl’s focus on bridge over other pursuits. The remark hints at social judgment of her time spent at the card table and suggests she often plays the game.
A Wilmington woman suspects an attachment of a policeman over her cooking, urging an investigation to prevent domestic disruption. The exchange features a cautious Mary noting the officer’s complaints about her meals.
A fragment from a Kansas City Times feature contrasts manners in social discourse with flirtatious dialogue. The piece cites exchanges between Green Brown and a Chicago News quote, noting fashionable talk about love and propriety in serialized fiction.
A senior waiter at a celebrated London hotel admonishes a green assistant at a banquet to act proper and stop standing idle as if the guest of the heavens. The exchange, quoted in Tit-Bits, captures the era’s social instruction.
For sale two business lots and one residential lot on the corner of Bur deshaw and Cherry streets opposite the public school in Dothan Alabama. See or write J. L. Thomas in Union Springs Alabama for details.
The humorous exchange shows Mrs. Trousseau fretting over a hairpiece her husband suggests the term rat is odd rab bits hairpiece name confusion. The quip reflects light comic misnaming of fashion accessories in a dated voice.
F J Weathers advertises dry goods and grocery items at low prices. The brief notice urges shoppers to buy affordable merchandise from the local seller.
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