Dothan Eagle 1929 News Highlights and Notices
The Dothan Eagle reports on national and local issues with editorials and notices from August 23, 1929. Content includes opinions on Russia and China, film actors, Alabama politics, cotton market outlook, and humor from state papers. It notes railroad and highway developments affecting Dothan Enterprise Elba travel and a public service commission ruling on Atlantic Coast Line trains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Public Service Commission
Atlantic Coast Line
Waterford
Elba
Dothan
Enterprise
Two Sermons From New York And Cleveland Preachers
Excerpted sermons from Rev. Russell H. Stafford in First Presbyterian Church New York discuss Jesus human struggles and open mind as basis for Christian conquest over world and mass opinion. Also excerpt from Rev. F L Scott McBride Euclid Avenue Baptist Cleveland notes anti saloon league leadership and political overtones. The Baltimore Evening Sun questioned McBride’s sermon as religionless politics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Presbyterian Church of
New York
Russell H. Stafford
Jesus
Euclid Avenue Baptist Church
Cleveland
FL Scott McBride
Anti-Saloon League
Baltimore Evening Sun
McBride
Cotton crop predictions from Creiba Daily Mews
George H. Malone, president of the First National Bank of Dothan, forecasts Houston County will yield about 20,000 bales of cotton this year, down from 21,000 last year. He also predicts Lee County will gin over 17,000 bales, noting the prediction is a guess.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston County
George H. Malone
First National Bank of Dothan
Houston
Lee County
A Little Word Leads Editor Hall Astray
A long letter debate on value and cost of production cites nails freight and newspaper advertising. It argues profit does not come from land labor or capital and criticizes editor Hall and city weed enforcement while urging fair pricing and equal rights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
Chicago
Birmingham
Hartselle Enterprise
Western Newspaper Union
Hagle
Dabar
Vic Enterprise
Phar
Marvin T Taber
Rcard
Sam Jones
Tam
Batchelor's Buttons Crown By W. C. Batchelor
W C Batchelor comments on social follies and reformers in a humorous column. It weaves whimsical phrases about habit, vanity, and money, poking at pretensions and human foibles with a parodic tone.
Keifer Once Speaker and Banker Turns Ninety
Gen Joseph Warren Keifer, once Speaker of the House and long time head of Lagonda National Bank, celebrated his ninetieth birthday. The 1881 figure rose from law practice before the Civil War, served as a major general in the Spanish American War, and returned to Congress in 1905, noted for his distinctive dress and wartime leadership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gen. Keifer
The
New York Times
Joseph Warren Keifer
Lagonda National Bank of
Springfield
Persens
General Kenee
House of Representatives
OSSP
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Gauhtless
Pelilien
Astin
W Tyhuch Lee
Virginia
Joseph Wheeler
Mahama
Leamy
Valunteers Agrain
Keifer
Congress
John” Allen
Harrison
Senate
When Women Were Women Dawson Go News
In a look back at past eras, the piece notes many women smoked in old times. It mentions clay pipes and reed stem pipes, and recalls a shared memory of tobacco rituals around the fireplace as cigarettes were less common.
Pat Harrison A Southern Senator In The Senate Show
Washington Daybook portrays Pat Harrison as a witty combative voice who alternates sharp clashes with Republicans and friendly camaraderie off the dais. The piece notes his rise from Crystal Springs to the Senate, his family struggles, and his reputation as a courteous yet forceful orator ahead of tariff battles and Hawley Smoot hearings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Byron Patton Harrison
Mississippi
United States Senate
Pat Harrison
Senate
Crystal Springs
Miss
Caraway
Arkansas
John Sharp Williams
Robinson
Harrison
Parents 7 By Alice Judson Peale
The boys built a camp by a brook and slept and cooked there happily but their mother worried they stayed up past their 9 p m bedtime. She proposed they promise to go to bed on time or she would enforce it, arguing that a child 10 or older will honor an honor system when trusted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mother
New Use for Old Cars Proposed for Levee Works
Ernest F. Greene suggests using discarded autos as earthwork for levees to restrain the Fathers of Waters and aid municipal authorities. Mississippi River Commission is considering the idea while Soviet Russia expands state owned farms for economic independence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Ernest F. Greene
Mississippi River Commission
Soviet
Russia
Goldman’s Symphonic Band Founds Free Concert Legacy
In 1918 cornetist Edwin Franko Goldman formed a symphonic band at Columbia University for experimental public concerts. Major donor Daniel Guggenheim and family funded up to $15,000 per season, enabling annual summer concerts that drew large crowds and shaped American musical taste through broadcasts and enduring works.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Massoce
New York
Columbia University
Edwin Franko Goldman
Daniel Guggenheim
The
Copper King
Goldman
Guggenheims
Guggenheim
Murry
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Eagle Publishing Company
William Theodore Hall
W. C. Batchelor
Horace Hall
Marie
Juthan
Alabama
Erpepetass JS
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HATFI
Telephones Business Office and Society
Ane
National
Frost, Landis & Kohn
Atlanta
Detroit
St. Louis
San Francisco
Associated Press
Thomas Jefferson
Voltaire
China
George Bancroft
Carmichael
McDowell
Charlie McCall
Greenville
Mexico
Tuscumbia Times
Albany
Pan Wayne BL Wheeler
Creiba
Feditor Hill
Heagle
Tors
Eagle
Department of Health
West Main Street
P. S
Dathan
Alin
Worry
Harry
Klusy
Jiggs
Dawson
Washington
Herbert Plummer
Senator Harrison
Crys
Tal
Louisiana State University
Alice Judson Peale
Tin Pan Alley
Central Park
New York University
Mali
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