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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1915
Page
2
Readable fragments show a fashion description with references to items or styles. Not enough clear facts about people organizations places dates or events to form a full news item. The garbled text prevents a decisive headline or concrete summary.
Disjointed remarks touch on tuition, cotton farming, and political figures. Mentions Fairbanks, Republicans, Democrats, German influence, and city fairs in Montgomery, Troy, and Birmingham. Vague notes about speeches, banking aid to cotton farmers, and a looming October event.
The article discusses cotton seed prices amid wartime effects, urging farmers to hold seed for higher local prices. It notes varying payments by mills, promises to publish quotations from mills including Dothan, and advocates buying locally to avoid shipping seed to distant towns Madrid Midland City Beachland and others. It emphasizes a prosperous farmers basis boosts related businesses.
A traveling man, based in Dothan, Alabama, tours the Deep South and says his sales have surged in the last eleven weeks, with demand stronger than before. He expects fall business to improve and believes cotton may fetch a higher price than anticipated.
A Civil War era report notes that the northern army consumed horses and mules at a rate of about 80 per day, reflecting the scale of logistical needs during the conflict.
A long fragment discusses revived prophecies attributed to Mother Shipton, noting possible authorship questions, origins in the fifteenth century, and connections to Ursula Southiel. It cites Walter Conwell and claims about prophecies failing or being misattributed, with mentions of Wolsey, Henry VIII, and apocalyptic forecasts.
Madison Heights Virginia Mr Chat A Ragland of this place writes I have been taking Thedfords Black-Draught for indigestion and stomach troubles also colds and find it the very best medicine I have ever used After taking Black-Draught for a few days I always feel like a new man Nervousness nausea heartburn and a feeling of fullness after eating are symptoms of stomach trouble and should be given proper treatment Health depends on digestion To get quick and permanent relief from these ailments you should use medicine of proven curative merit well known for its safe and gentle action Sold everywhere
The passage notes predictions about riding through mountains flying messages through the air and travel by carriages without burials. It asserts these predictions have come true and credits a seer named Mother Shipton with a wonderful imagination.
A fragmentary narrative recalls a Parisian woman who, amid wartime upheaval, vaults into economy, locking her funds in a trunk due to French law and government restrictions. She sells lace and jewelry privately after her finances are jailed by regulation, while a barring sale proceeds elsewhere. The piece shifts to a German general staff photo collection and a language quirk overheard in a Cleveland office, highlighting wartime record keeping and a busy print shop reacting to a spring building boom.
Sasper E. Karnes, a prosperous farmer from route 1, was a business caller here today.
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