Only One Farmer Serves in Alabama Washington History
The Birmingham Ledger notes Alabama’s political slate shows farmers rare in Congress. Captain Bankhead, a lifelong farmer from Alabama, stands as the sole farmer candidate for national office, with other contenders in both senate and house races mostly lawyers.
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Alabama
Senate
Congress
Coins
Bankhead
Captain Hobson
Percy Clark
Captain Bankhead
Washington
They All Look Alike to Him Color Scene in Savannah Office
J Reed from York Pa afflicted with color blindness tries to press drinks on two white men and a negro in Fuller Co. office. The negro refuses. Reed proclaims color means nothing, provoking uneasy tension as a white man and his family seek rest away from a negro establishment.
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J. Reed
York
Charlie
Savannah
Fuller & Co.’s
Reed
Panama City Bay Area Sees Investment and Shipping Growth
Notables from Orlando Alabama and Florida visit as Panama City unveils Post Office in McKenzie Co general store. Gulf Coast Development Co contracts a two story cement block office and bank, plans for cement blocks and lumber move forward with Thompson Bros Cypress and J B Thompson expanding saw mill operations. Local bankers and architects join in Bay County expansion as steamer traffic adds routes and Maneto to run Mobile to the bay.
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Panama City
McKenzie & Co
Sadler & Co
Indianapolis
Ind
The
Gulf Coast Development Co
First St
Harrison Ave
Gree and Hogeboom
Bank
Thompson Bros
Cypress
Fla
Sheriff Sale of McWhissack Property in Columbia Alabama
A sheriff sale is set for September 17 1906 in Houston County Alabama to satisfy an execution issued May 16 1906 in favor of R H L Walker against R L McKissack. The real estate includes a Fidelia McWhissack place on West South Main Street and two additional houses and lots in Columbia with boundaries described along South Depot Street Tancock Street and adjacent parcels. Also an advertisement notes the New Buggy Store opened by George Pilcher next to Malone Grocery Co promising high grade vehicles.
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Eircnit
Houston County
R. H L. Walker
R. L. McKissack
Court House
Alabama
Columbia
Depot Streets
City of
Sue Bowden
J. L. Lamley
R. L. McWhissack
Clark Addresses Mobile Crowd on Alternate Senate Run
Hon Dick Clark of Mobile spoke yesterday at noon to a good size crowd for his campaign as an alternate senator.
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Dick Clark
Mobile
Secret orders and lodge meetings in Dothan area notices
The article lists meeting schedules for multiple Masonic and related orders in Dothan with officers named. It then shifts to a reminiscence about Baron Kodama and his supposed foresight in the Port Arthur siege, contrasting predictions from Tokyo with the actual fall in January 1905.
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Baron Kodama
Japan
Port Arthur
Tokio
Kodama
Peanut Trade Secrets and Roasting Tricks Revealed
The piece explains differences in peanut color from light yellow to brunettes and notes that peanuts lose crispness within days after roasting, especially in damp weather. It details how Italian and Greek traders refresh stocks by repeated roasting, eventually producing tawny nuts sold at discount near stations and cheaper resorts.
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New York Press
Excursion Fares Announced Via Central of Georgia Railway
Travel deals published for September 1906 offer one fare plus 25 cents round trip to Memphis Tennessee for the National Baptist Convention event with tickets on sale September 9 to 12 and final return by September 20. Another is to Richmond Virginia for the Grand Fountain United Order of True Reformers with tickets on sale September 2 to 5 and final limit September 13. Contact a ticket agent for details.
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Memphis
Tenn
National Baptist Convention (Colored
Richmond
Grand Fountain
United Order of True Reformers
Notice to non resident defendant in Dothan chancery case
The State of Alabama Houston County proceeds in chancery at Dothan against N J Hutto and others and L D Ogletree and others. The register cites C E Crocker as non resident and over twenty one. Publication in the Dothan Eagle for four weeks is ordered requiring Crocker to plead answer or demur by August 25 1909 or a decree pro confesso may be entered. Dothan July 28 1906 register Tad0 J M Cody.
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Alabama
Houston County
N. J. Hutto Et al
L. D. Ogletree
Dothan
Ala
S. E. Chancery Division
Register
C. E. Crocker
Lauderdale
Mississippi
Fieschi Attempt on King Louis Philippe in 1834
In July 1834 Fieschi attempted to assassinate King Louis Philippe as he rode with the national guard on Boulevard du Temple. A hail of bullets killed Marshal Mortier and about thirteen others, with thirty wounded. the king’s arm was grazed and his horse shot. Fieschi had prepared a frame of twenty five gun barrels aimed to fire from a second floor position. four barrels burst and two misfired, sparing the king.
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Louis P Pilippe
France
National Guard
Boulevard du Tenple
Louis Philippe
Marshal Mortier
Fieschi
Ancient Locks and Keys Across the Ages
The article notes Anmelent Locka and Locka used in pharaonic times and a Sarnak display of a rocklike lock. Homer mentions Penelope’s brass wardrobe key with an ivory handle. A 12th century Greek writer notes such keys remain in Constantinople and elsewhere. Korman locks like the Baeyp tan need partial key sliding and are more intricate.
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Anmelent Locka
Sarnak
Egypt
Homer
Penelope
Constantinople
Darwin and Books In His Early Careless Habits
The text notes Darwin showed little regard for books and bindings, treating them as lightweight objects and removing covers. He dismissed penny pamphlets and often discarded borrowed volumes, with friends later discreetly supplying him books he wished to borrow, knowing their value would diminish if returned.
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Darwin
Definite aim key to education and energy use
The text argues that without a clear programme and definite aim education, effort, and talent lose value. It warns that economies, genius, and hard work cannot replace a defined objective or purpose, or energies may be wasted and faculties deteriorate.
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Ufe
Lightning Hapidity and a Father’s Boast
A puzzled father extols a boy’s timing and proportion in a humorous exchange about who gets the biggest cake piece. The mediculcally framed reply hints at a comic misreading as the man tries to escape.
McNelis Heads Overseas for Record Swim Tour
Teter and McNally, the noted long distance swimmers, have sailed for Europe to swim the Thor Hellespont and the Strait of Gibraltar. Walter Critchell accompanies McNally on this voyage as part of the expedition.
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McNelis
Teter & McNally
Europe
Thor
Hellespont
Strait of Gibraltar
Walter Critchell
McNally
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Him
A. J. Adams
Orlando, Fa
J. W. Adams
Andalusia, Ala
Hotel Tarpon
Mark D. Brainard
Montgomery, Ala
Bay Country
Tarpon
Pensacola
St. Andrews Bay
J. P. Thistlewood
Maneto
Galveston
Our Bay
Elias Ayers
Cremanton, Fla
W. W. Green
Eufaula
al Hogeboom
Chipley
Pensacola Journal
N. C. Hall
J. B. Thompson
Cypress, Fla
Second and
W.H. Milton
Marianna
Panama
Gulf Coast Development Offices
Bullock
State Bank of
Chipley, Fla
Harrisson Ave
L. L. Willis
Millville
Vickers and McKenzie
Naval Stores
Second St
Park Ave
Eorge Pilcher
Malone Grocery Co
Clark
Dothan Lodge
A. F
A.M NO
O. M. Murphy
W. M
J. C. Hardy
Benevolence Lodge R. of
P. NO
D. D. Stephens
C. C
G C. Eatchelor
T. W. Harris
N. G
H. E. Jordan
A. D. Whiddon
W. O. Griffith
Central OF Georgia Railway
J. M. Cody’ Register
Dothan Guano CO
Darwin and Books
Wood’s Seeds
T. W. Wood & Sons
Richmond, Va
Oran
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