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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1909
Page
2
A clipped excerpt from a Dothan Alabama post office notice runs with scattered maxims on work and leadership. The text contrasts talk versus action and notes common missteps in authority while invoking a family tree motif with squirrels as a metaphor.
Local column reflects on household pets and livestock, noting a family horse’s shift in behavior when treated as a family member. The piece blends observation and playful aphorisms about kinship and ownership.
The fragment hints at difficulty in catching fleeting ideas as they pass, suggesting a struggle to grasp and hold concepts before they slip away. The text implies mental distraction and poor focus as a common condition.
A reader identified as T. V. White of route 5 visited the paper office Saturday to make a payment. The note adds a moral about treating children well to gain future friends in society.
A short, stout market slab is described as a protective measure to be placed endwise over the Brownaville soldiers heads, implying the men may not be defeated until such a device is used.
A newspaper column riffs on weather, markets, and politics with humor and social jabs. It notes Alabama farmers, wheat markets, Roosevelt, and a California man who quit drinking seventy-five years ago at age 92, mingling satire with local color.
A writer reflects on crafting content that serves diverse readers by adapting a flexible hash of ideas. The piece notes that evolving the mix to suit different tastes keeps the audience engaged without tiring of the author.
Boston astronomer Professor William Henry Pickering at Harvard envisions a Martian dialogue via a giant mirror to flash sunlit signals. He estimates needing about 10 million dollars to build a quarter mile wide reflective device to beam messages when Mars is closer, hoping Martians decipher Morse or a simple code.
A Georgia mail carrier believed he would not live to the next Sunday. He told his wife and doctor of his fear, received medicine, and soon fell unconscious and died before the following Sunday.
The Corn Meal Editor of the Advertiser urges widespread use of corn meal to ease flour price worries. He praises various ways to prepare corn bread from pones to soft baked loaves, served with bacon and grease for breakfast and meals.
A Chicago Methodist minister resigns to take a similar post in New Mexico for his daughter’s health. He builds wealth through tax sales and real estate, growing from modest earnings to an estimated 500000 dollars, while remaining faithful and regularly active in church duties.
Mrs Chas Brown and her young son from Cuthbert Georgia are guests of Mrs W A Brown on West Main Street in a formal social note.
Mrs R T Ghent hosted a April shower luncheon at her Rose Ifill home in Atlanta for Mrs Williams McCarthy.Guests included Mrs Wallac Hunter Mrs W F McClellan Mrs W H Grant Mrs Carrie Mabrey Nix Mrs Henry Green and Miss Daisy Simonton. The event featured pink roses asparagus fern a blue umbrella centerpiece and a hand painted guest book with floral place cards.
Jennie Mae Ward hosted the D. and L. Club on Saturday at three o clock. Members shared quotations on Whittier, played dominos, and enjoyed a penny for your thoughts game followed by a barn dance and fruit punch. The next meeting will be with Janie Farmer.
The country parson consoles a bereaved widow saying he was pained to learn her husband had gone to heaven. He recalls they were bosom friends though they will never meet again, reflecting on loss and farewell.
W O W lodge meets on the second and fourth Tuesday evenings. Thomas Burdeshaw is listed as secretary with M Kincey and Helen Renfro serving as guardian. Meetings occur in the Seety, OODMEN CIRCLE No. 25 venue in the region.
Attachment issued April 19 1909 in Houston County Alabama against W T Weaver non resident of Alabama. Writ levied on Central of Georgia Railway Co with return May 17 1909. Notice to defendant Weaver at Blakely Georgia of levy and attachment. By Ayn O4 MF.
I have a nice corner lot close in that I want to build a house on and sell. Will build house to suit you. Phone 218 or see W C Pilcher 126
Tom Battle who escaped jail near here was captured at Noma Florida. Sheriff Butler pursued yesterday evening with John Sanders and A B Carroll accompanying in Sanders automobile. The trip to Noma and back took five hours. J H W Borland leaves for weeks on a western trip to Mobile Fort Worth Dallas Salt Lake City and San Francisco. N H McCallum promotes Foley Kidney Remedy for backache and kidney support.
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