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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1932
Page
5
Local social calendar highlights a busy week with hosting duties by Enterprise L Brunson and J C Fleming. Residents attend visits, travel to Montgomery Dothan and Troy, plus family gatherings and shop outings across Alabama towns.
Hope Ross, almost seventeen, navigates dances, parties, and rival romances with Goody and Charlie Rand at a Placid estate. She uses flirtation with Rusty Crandall to provoke jealousy in Charlie while Goody pursues her own crush, leaving Hope entangled in social games and family expectations from Yale weekend to Riviera memories.
Alabama women and girls in home demonstration extension work set a new 1931 record with 29 228 members across 46 counties. They reported 1 104 646 36 in sales of miscellaneous farm and home products, pushing total cash value to 2 724 662 for the year.
A man identified as H. BE. Comb was admitted to a hospital in Atlanta with feet frozen during a blizzard. He reportedly drove from the west when his car broke down and he had to repair it in the harsh weather.
Contest announced for Alabama College Theater inviting play writers to submit one act and long plays. Winners receive prizes. entries must be in by February 15.
Sun Mon Tues Una Merkel and Wm Collier Jr star in Secret Witness. Wed Thurs Jack Helt and Ralph Graves perform A Dangerous Affair. Fri Sat Lane Chandler appears in Cheyenne Cyclone. Next Sun Jean Harlow and Loretta Young in Platinum Blonde.
A noon parade dubbed The Legion On Parade marches through downtown led by the civic band. Local veterans groups join as spectators line the route and cheer as floats pass by the courthouse and park.
Listings announce Eddie Cantor and Charlotte Green in Palmy Days and Ronald Colman with Fay Wray in Unholy Garden. Next Sunday features Sylvie Sidney and William Collier Jr in Street Scene at the Houston cinema.
Jackie Cooper stars with Robert Coogan as Looky in a Paramount comedy with a strong supporting cast. Thurs shows feature Confessions of a Co-Ed with Sylvia Sidney Phillip Holmes and Norman Foster.
Police value the jewelry at over 250000 dollars stolen from the apartment of Mr and Mrs Harry Grem by three bandits who bound Glemby and a butler and escaped about the time detectives were informed by telephone. Investigators began moving from a police station a little more than two blocks away toward the agency.
An explanation of tornado characteristics notes their brief lifespans usually under an hour and narrow paths, speeds of 25 to 60 mph, and intense rotation. It describes funnel clouds, pressure drops, and the explosive effects on buildings while detailing seasonal and regional frequency.
Cotton spinning spindles ran busy in December with Alabama ranking third in active spindles and fifth in total spinning hours. Alabama had 1,686,614 active spindles during the month and 462,208,028 total spinning hours, averaging 250 hours per spindle, compared with a national average of 240. Rhode Island posted the lowest at 85 hours.
Former Birmingham property owners tied to a half a million dollars in city sales receive until May 1 to redeem their properties at reduced rates. The city commission lowers delinquent tax interest from 16 to 8 percent due to prevailing conditions, with 15 percent penalty and other terms applying after May 1.
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