Faulk Shooting Follows Lynching in Dothan
A Black man employed at the Dothan Oil Mill shot cashier Alto Faulk during a confrontation over a cash drawer. After a mob formed, the suspect was seized near the jail and hanged by a lynch mob, dying from wounds later that week. Faulk survived his gunshot but was reportedly mortal with recovery uncertain. Alto Faulk rests as investigators note the mob lacked discipline.
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Alto Faulk
Dothan
Alto
Faulk
Webb Jut
Wiliams
Webb
Potter
Payne
St. Andrews Street
Parsonage Project Prompts Street Upgrades
Oscar Green shares ripe strawberries with friends as the Foster Street M E B church plans a handsome parsonage on the old building's lot. The growing congregation outgrows the 15 year old structure and a sidewalk paving suggestion accompanies the project.
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Oscar Green
Foster Street
M. EB. Church
Builder J. W. Baughman Shapes Dothan’s Skyline
J. W. Baughman began in Newton after a quarrel on a Plant System trestle, rode to Dothan, found work with Orin Hill, and built most major structures in town. He supervised the city hall, Hotel Martin, the new opera house, and remodeling projects while remaining a devoted Dothan citizen who built a lasting local legacy.
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J. W. Baughman
Old Plant System Railroad
Newton
Baughman
Dothan
Orin Hill
Dr. Baikum
City Hall
Martin
Joe, Baker
Opera House
Eagle Office
Alabama Plumbing & Heating Co
Mrs. Jane Baker
The Pork Plot And A Forkless Dinner Tale
A Denver man befriends a Kansas companion. after dining downtown the Kansas man discovers he has no fork. The Denver man quips that one can stir coffee without a fork, prompting shared laughter over the awkward mishap.
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Denver
Kenene
Denver Post
Kanens
Kansas
City Improvement Club forms in Dothan
Do than ladies met at the Courthouse to organize the City Improvement Club. Mrs. Ellison led the session with a goal to beautify and sanitary the city, establish ward captains, and present by laws, with monthly meetings and five cent dues. A separate chancery notice for Maggie Killburn v Reno Huburn asks Ben Huburn to answer by February 1909.
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Dothan
City Improvement Club
Mark Ellison
Wiley
Troy Ala
Ellison
W. R. Flowers
F. B. Culver
O. R. Morgan
Sec’t’y
J. H. Jordan
Treas
Daniels case summons in Dothan Eagle notice
In Houston County Alabama Richard Daniels a non resident and father is summoned in Southeastern Chancery to answer the bill of complaint. Publication in Dothan Eagle for four consecutive weeks is required by February 16 1908 or a decree pro confesso may be entered. Done at office Dothan January 18 1908. J M Cody Register.
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Ben Huburn
Register
Dethan Eagle
County of
Houston
Dothan
Fis
M, Cody Register
State OF Alabama
Houston County
Lettice Daniels
Richard Daniels
Alabama
Southeastern Chancery Division
M. B. Byrd
Dothan Eagle
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Vality
Judoim
Weed & Sons
Seoden VA
Aej
P. F.C
Dothan’s Improvement Club
Court House
the City Improvement Club of
Secetary
Ala
J. M. Cody Register
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