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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1911
Page
2
Fragmented 1419 era notes mention future Florida senator prospects and political chatter. TheAge-Herald and local papers reference Mardi Gras plans, Alabama cotton crops, and social upheaval. A dubious tone exists around political figures, court moves, and leadership tensions inside Houston county and Abbeville News.
The report compares Albany, Americus and Dothan populations. Albany lists 8,378 whites and 1,812 Negroes, while Americus has 3,488 whites and 4,574 Negroes, noting Albany’s larger total population but different racial distribution.
The Guntersville Democrat notes a strikingly mild Sunday described as a veritable spring day. The Weather Reporter recalls ten to thirty springlike days this month, urging editors to adapt printing methods and avoid unnecessary ready print advertisements. Royalty and Madrid rumors about King Alfonso stir commentary on governance.
In a heated debate across Jefferson Montgomery and Mobile counties local option whiskey bill faces a mock election and extra costs. Voters will choose if whiskey should be sold and in what form, with revenues earmarked for schools and roads. The dispensary plan could shift funds to Houston and surrounding areas, signaling party strategy and regional impact.
An old column argues one in a hundred is insane and insanity rises with civilization. It claims men and women share susceptibility but differ in age of onset, with peak risk for women between twenty five and thirty five and men between twenty and fifty. It notes common causes including alcohol and disease and warns that the twentieth century is the “insane century.”
The passage argues insanity stems from two factors: an unstable nervous system and stress or emotional shock. It notes adolescence and extreme age heighten risk, and warns against parenting unstable individuals, while urging protection of nervous children from excessive school workload and stress.
A fragmented ad invites customers to bring corn for grinding and requests a sample. It references a “Rogers Dairy” contact and a phone number, 4381, with stray phrases about costs and tolls. The readable parts imply a local mill service for corn processing.
An amid ad block touts F B Culver pump services next to Price building and H N Thomas contact, warns about coughs and pneumonia risks urging Fo leya’s Honey and Tar as safe remedy, promotes McCallum drug sales, and sells a Singer Darnr device for rock-stitch sewing machines at Singer Store on E Main St in Dothan.
Burkett and Whitehead advertise as first class blacksmiths with expert forges for horseshoeing. All work satisfactory.
General Insurance Office in Palmer Crawford Porter Building advertises Fidelity and Casualty and National Surety Co. assets over 10 day Ur ganized 1875. Sun Insurance Co. of New Orleans assets over 1 000 000 established 1855. Offers accident health boiler employes liability burglary and fire coverage with prompt attention.
The New York Tribune quotes Senator Depew recounting senatorial bulls at a Washington dinner. A Southern senator supposedly rebuked an interrupter with a stern retort. The anecdote includes phrases about a mousing owl and a senator from Uhtrago, plus a remark on the iron heel of necessity and a Texas orator's plea to shed embers of a fading life.
The county union of the Farmers Educational and Co operative Union will hold a two day meeting at Ashford on Thursday and Friday March 6th and 10th.
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