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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1914
Page
3
Miss Sue Virginia, Domestic Science instructor at the city schools, resigns and plans retirement from Vaughn Mississippi. The High School building suffered a fire causing equipment shortages and delays. Miss Bourke will resume teaching once the high school is repaired and ready for January term.
An article by Allen L. Benson discusses how housewives who bake for others must manage precise temperatures and methods. It contrasts manual craft with modern equipment, noting the steady conditions behind bread rise and the broader social admiration for women’s domestic skills.
The document shows capital stock paid in 960.00 and a surplus fund of 10,000.00 with undivided profits after current expenses and taxes listed as 1,936.37. Notes payable total 15,000.00, grand total 117,408.88. A. Y. Malone, president, swore to the accuracy of the condition of the bank as of December 5, 1934.
An article stresses avoiding daily internal medicines for children with colds and recommends Vick's Vap-O-Hub Croup and Pneumonia Salve applied to the throat at night, plus fresh air. It touts the salve's claimed absorption through skin and warns against unsafe drug use, noting price and availability from druggists.
A damaged advertorial promotes a beverage claiming to ease backache and kidney trouble. It touts a fizzy effervescent water mix with salts and minerals, says it cleanses the urinary tract, reduces bladder irritation, and notes low cost. The piece urges readers to try the drink and supplement with pills for stronger effect.
A fragment reports Salman, age unknown, being shot in the hip while Saturday activities near a home during Christmas shopping lines. The notice mentions strange mix of ads and a jewelry firm, Strickland Jewelry Co. with a special holiday sale.
Fragmentary notice lists items and vendors in a closing out sale. Mentions AML vans parka and various groceries including peppers corn tomatoes and beans with unclear origins and dates.
Large farmland listing offering over twelve hundred acres of level land on a hard road near Marlinna. About five hundred acres cleared and well fenced, three hundred acres woodland fenced for hog pasture, with good wells, houses and barns. Options to sell all or part at Tensenville Pines, E Merritt, Marinona, Pia.
Classifieds list various local notices including a six room house for rent with conveniences, a small farm offer, cotton price offer, rooster ads, office space for rent, a scholarship sale, a private board request, and poultry and plant sales with contact details and prices.
Taxpayers are warned that all county and state taxes for 1514 are due in October and become delinquent in January 1015. Interest accrues on late payments and poll tax is due in October and February, with penalties for non payment. The tax office emphasizes paying promptly at the county courthouse to avoid added charges.
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