Market News From New Orleans Cotton Market
A garbled note from New Orleans reports market closing activity in the cotton trade. The fragment mentions trading action and general market status without clear figures or dates.
28 Feb 1933
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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1933
Page
1
A garbled note from New Orleans reports market closing activity in the cotton trade. The fragment mentions trading action and general market status without clear figures or dates.
Market figures list prominent names including New York Central J Penney Phillips Radio Corp Southern Railway United Fruit United Aircraft Westinghouse U S Steel Woolworth and Western Union with varied percentage swings across rails and consumer firms signaling uneven investor sentiment in late session activity.
Fort Payne Alabama February 28 AP Tom Roan, accused novelist, was acquitted of slaying Dr W P Hicks after a two-year case. Defense claimed self defense with a prior trial ending in deadlock and appeal overturning a life sentence. Coca Cola Declares Quarterly Dividend of 1.75 per share
Default on the mortgage by Willie L May and John A May to Dora Thelheimer leads to a foreclosure sale in front of the Houston County Court House on March 21 1933. The property sits at the northwest corner of Lafayette and College Streets in Dothan and covers 210 by 100 feet to Lafayette Street. The sale is for cash to satisfy the secured debts and related costs. Dora Thelheimer is the mortgagee and J Speight is attorney of record.
Marianna and Panama City residents figure in a string of social visits. Marianna hosts include Miss Velma Clarke, Mrs. J. W. Pips, and Mrs. Kennard Rhyne’s guest Miss Claudie McSwain from Washington DC. Others travel to Ocala Daytona Beach Jackson ville and Tallahassee for brief stays with relatives and friends.
A notes page reports visitors and residents in the Dothan area. Mickies and others from Alabama and nearby towns visited. Otis Padgett heads to Washington to serve as secretary to Congressman Millard Caldwell. several residents, including the Cook and Calhoun families, hosted or traveled for the week.
Lydia Clark Benedict 44 of Andover Mayes widely known in physical education circles died in Columbus after an eight day illness from pneumonia.
Officers reconstructed the scene of a double murder on the Andalusia Fiorala highway near Wathina Bridge. Hicks and Longmier were suspected of involvement after victims were shot and mutilated by assailants who approached from bushes. Police debated whether the initial shots were fired from a tree line, with buckshot found at the bodies.
Detroit reports Ernest Liebold secretary to Harry Ford vanished today. Police aid request for a quiet investigation came from two men who named an official of Ford Motor Co. at the Dearborn plant Liebold last seen afternoon leaving the Dearborn plant. He oversaw Ford local policies and was recently named assistant. Ford plans two new Detroit banks.
Stefano Meloti, a farmer, receives an invitation to his son’s wedding fifty years after the ceremony was supposed to occur. The note suggests the invitation was lost in the malls and only now found, delaying remembrance of the event.
Hicks a 32 year old deputy sheriff who had served under ex Sheriff Blake Gantt and later left the force. He and his brother Intew died in a Sunday fishing outing that was described as a farewell trip. Hicks leaves a widow Bicka and three children. the family planned to move to Texas for work.
Movie listings include Genevieve Tobin in Infernal Ma china and Lili Damita with Charles Morton in Goldie Gets Along. Added: The Floor Watcher and Fox News. Net Sunday features a musical comedy drama Broadway Bad. Alabama schedule lists Cynara with Key Frances, Mickey Moore in a Cynara parody.
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