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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1907
Page
5
Town visitors from Columbia Harper Slocomb Samson and Abbeville are listed with days in Dothan. Local bids advertise 25 percent off umbrellas and wearables at Whaleys with other reductions on skirts coats and silks. A birth is noted for Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Bierman.
P Green announces cut price sales on winter goods including men and women rubbers at cost after the roof leak soaked the office and memorandum book. He urges buys during tight times as clothing costs drop a quarter in savings and hints at sparse future issues due to Christmas selling hot season.
The ad promotes top notch men's and boys clothing from O P Green. Mrs J A Bowdoin departs for Staunton Virginia to visit her daughter Nellie at school and plans to return with her for the holidays. The message highlights a special month discount of twenty five percent off.
Year 1908 notice of rental for 25 acres of land just outside the city limits on Headland Avenue.
The text recounts a Harper's Weekly legend linking Freddie's ice cream restraint to a parable about eyes and sight. It then narrates Dharma the ascetic prince of India, who travels to China and Japan, helmed by privation from sleep. he cuts off his eyelids, a bush grows from them, becoming the tea plant that yields a sleep‑chasing drink.
The article explains how birds of prey like eagles achieve constant vision from near to distant objects. It describes the eye’s sclerotic bone ring and how its shape adjusts to focus from two feet to two miles. The piece notes this accommodation is instinctual and beyond human ability.
Subscribed and sworn to before me as correct attest: O E Williams Culver W F Newton directors.
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