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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1931
Page
6
Fri Zot Warner Oland stars in Charlie Chan Carries On a mystery feature. Next Sunday Will Rogers presents A Connecticut Yankee at the local theater.
Thors Fri Bat Eddie Dowling in Hoolymoon Lane. Maurice Chevallier to appear in Smiling Lieutenant. Negro ground keepers of the Chattanooga baseball club shown at games in white bathing suits with elf-like embellishments.
Divitt and the marquess Carlota plan a careful con in New Orleans to recruit a fortune teller, Juanta Ber or Yaabel, by faking a romance with a noble past. They use a jewelry ramble and staged social visits to lure wealthy targets while watching for rivals and possible loves.
Falkville enforces a public dance ban with no public dancing allowed under city ordinance. Mrs Mattie Francis was fined 23 dollars for operating a public dance hall in Falkville. The Alabama Court of Appeals affirmed the ordinance citing police power to regulate public places for safety peace decency.
The page lists Sunday meals with breakfast and supper items and provides recipe steps. It includes an egg and ham omelet, baked chicken, stuffed green peppers with rice and giblets, and a chocolate cream pie, with directions for making Graham gems and a sour milk batter.
A garbled line from Seps Putty hints at a racing event with a crowd expecting a double thrill. The speaker jokes about being fat in a risky moment, promising a fall and perhaps something left of him after hitting the ground.
Montgomery August 4 AP The state health department describes several mosquito types by breeding sites and outlines targeted control methods. One type thrives in old tin cans and barrels, another in swamps and ponds, a third in clean stagnant water, and a fourth in sewer areas.
The Alabama Public Service Commission will hear three August cases affecting railroads and customers. On Aug 11 in Birmingham the commission will hear Alabama railroads respond to a citation about setting fast and reasonable freight rates on creosote oil sulfuric and electrolyte acid. On Aug 18 in Gulfport the Gulf Mobile and Northern railroad petitions for authority to discontinue its Wilmer Alabama agency. An order is expected later in the month after all three cases are considered.
Taylor Mies Eloise Clark and Dina Peyer visit Dr. and Mrs. A. L. Kelly and relatives in Kansas City. Miss Vero Mae Shiver joins Beasle Uriggera, Miss Muth Kelly visits L. B. Kelly. Mrs. Gersid Hawkins and child return to Waml. Wallace Harold Smith visits from Dothan. Mrs. J. W. Taylor returns from Auburn Farmers meeting. Taylor 4-H clubs meet with 29 members attending.
Sunday afternoon crowd gathers as Mra C. B Register visits Mre GM. Lunsford Lundi 441 Bimpson sends his horseshoe to St. Louis Cardials as world champion pick. Lefty Olson, ex Luther College star, named director of athletics at Augustana Bronx Falls. Burt V. Halbert, Transylvania College football star, poised to become head coach there this fall.
The claim that Thome Heflin rather than Joan Bankhead won the Senate seat from Air borne last November was presented to the Senate elections committee by Heflin's attorney Frank Hampton. He argues Bankhead disqualified herself by spending more than the campaign limit and that additional expenditures were made.
More than 1,000 Birmingham children from 92 playgrounds will perform in The History of Alabama at Lagton Field tomorrow night. The event is sponsored by the Birmingham Park and Recreation Board and will depict key historical events from ancient times to early Alabama.
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