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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1908
Page
2
P. S. Holland, manager, invites farmers to weigh cotton at the Farmers Union Warehouse Co. He asserts the warehouse has weighed cotton for six years and asks customers to judge fairness by their own experience. The message stresses unity among farmers and continual weighing of first, next, and subsequent lots.
In Washington a senator's wife recounts a comic incident at supper with a stray five dollar coin misconstrued as repayment. She explains how a young man volunteered to swap a new five dollar gold piece, leaving her fearful of losing the original gift. The tale ends with the purse revealing the missing coin and the husband mocking the ruse.
The text explains lace origins in Europe with Colbert promoting French lace, Venetians restricting craftsmen, and the coined term pointe d Angleterre arising after 1662 when English import bans and smuggled Brussels lace were sold as pointe d Angleterre to meet court demand. Louis XIV supported lace making to challenge Venetian control.
A London landlord, struggling to collect rents, confronts a tenant who claims to have just started work. The tenant admits selling his back door for firewood to attend a cricket match, prompting the landlord’s fury at the sight of him at the ground.
King James I a keen golfer and sportsman as Duke of York. He joined a match at the Scottish court with two English nobles, teaming with Edinburgh shoemaker John Paterson who won half the stake. Paterson used his winnings to build a house in Canongate, bearing the record to this day.
A southern lumber firm advertises a large stock of Ceiling Siding Flooring and Framing materials plus a fast order service. It highlights moulding a complete Variety Works with columns balustrades doors sash and store fronts and notes they supply steel beams plate and plain glass. The plant near the Central depot is described as up to date and ready to serve buyers whether they purchase or not.
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