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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1929
Page
4
The text notes the Deva people will attend a congress and describes planned experiments using filtered rays and super sensitive film in Grant Park along the lake front and hotel roof garden. It mentions attempts to secure movies and Theosophical leaders from around the world including Annie Besant and Dr McRae, with events scheduled for Sunday.
Thomas L. Johnson of Lither ton emerges as the fourth candidate in the North Carolina governor race. He is described as a president and superior court judge, adding to the field as incumbents and challengers compete for the seat.
Mrs. T. J. Ward traveled to Dothan for a business trip on Thursday. Mrs. Sam Clark of Marianna visits her father in law, Lee Clark. Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Webb welcome weekend guests Mrs. Sam Newton and son Crate from Toledo Ohio. Miss Ola Brown engaged in business activities.
Market figures show spots in New Orleans at 4 up and middling around 1803 with sales at 500 and nearby New York prices listed. The page also notes a strip to Slocomb Thursday and several social items: Jim and T. J. Brown and others returned from Troy summer school, Mrs. A I Kelly visited Dothan, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Sellers plus Lio comb route spent Sunday, L S Johnson, Hamp Watford trio on trip to Dothan, and Mrs. J M Smith with daughter Grace visiting Roanoke relative.
New York Citys Delmonico hotel on Fifty-ninth Street and Park Avenue offers a 15 room top-floor apartment mansion spanning three floors with three elevators and vast living spaces. The asking rent per room is 3000 a year, totaling a staggering 45000 annually for the whole unit, a record for New York and likely the world. The layout features a mammoth 45 by 17 foot living room with vaulted ceiling, armorial parlors, five bedrooms on the lower floor, a nursery, valet area, and a master suite across the east side, with multiple fireplaces and expansive city views through 29 windows. This unique dwelling cites Had Bet-A-Million Gates as a past high benchmark.
In Tampa, heavyweight wrestler Bill Demetral proved his claim that boxers have no chance against his “neck twisters.” He faced and floored three boxers in under 14 minutes, offering to wrestle six rounds with each foe using his own technique. He posted a $1,000 forfeit for not making good, then won the purse by defeating all challengers.
The world congress of Theosophists in Chicago will host attempts to photograph fairies gnomes sylphs and possibly angels late in August led by Geoffrey Hodson of England who has claimed to photograph beings and written on them Hodson says intelligent entities invisible to humans often avoid cameras while the congress seeks contact between two realms and expects broad participation from representatives.
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