Home Demo Club Meetings Set Across Houston County July
Twenty seven Houston County home demonstration club meetings are scheduled for July announced by Miss Fran Mallette. The demonstrations titled The E s of Cocking Ease Economy and Efficiency will feature cooking a meal in a pressure cooker and the new Presto cooker. Meetings run 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. with members to bring a covered dish. A list of meetings follows with locations and hosts ending with an item on South American catfish migrating during drought.
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Houston County Home
Fran Mallette
Dorothy Dix Answers Jealousy and Divorce Dilemmas
Dorothy Dix counsels a worried husband trapped by a jealous, controlling wife, and a separated man seeking another chance after drinking and spending. She notes such behavior is hard to cure and warns reform is rare. A teenage marriage ends as the spouse ships overseas, with no return yet.
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Dorothy Dix
Familly
Mae
Divorces Stirred by Young Wives Feeling Trapped
A girl recounts leaving home after a year of marriage to seek a freer life and a judge responds that a 16 year old who wed so young was too immature to know better. The letter laments wartime marriages of many girls who sought fun and faced unwanted motherhood, urging courts to grant divorces.
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Is. Co. D. C.d
Navy Enlists Eleven Men From Dothan Area
Eleven men from Dothan and nearby communities were accepted for Navy enlistment, with ranks including seaman second class and machinist's mate second class. Recruits include Clayton Walthers, Buck Green, and Lenton E. Bostick, along with apprentices like Hoby Earl Roney and Emerson Devane. All were sent to Bainbridge Maryland for induction and training after applications were accepted at the Dothan recruiting office.
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Dothan
U.S. Navy
Clayton Walthers
Buck Green
Opp
Lenton E. Bostick
Headland
Hoby Earl Roney
Ashford
Emerson Benjiman Devane
E. Washington Street
William Henry Parks
Sumner
Edson Cecil Smith
Herman David Stewart
D. G. Strand
Andalusia
Jesse Lava Sharpe
Gantt
John Edward Kinsaul
Florala
Bainbridge
Midland City Hosts Methodist Revival This Week
Revival services will be held at Midland City Methodist Church from Sunday July 7 through Friday July 12 led by Pastor Rev W L Lindsey. Speaker and singer for the series will be Rev Si Mathison. The note adds a separate line about a lung fish dying quickly when removed from water.
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Midland City Methodist
W. L. Lindsey
Si Mathison
Sulky maker finds horse here to stay in Marion
Marion Ohio reports the Houghton Sulky Co founded in 1904 by W H Bill Houghton is enjoying a 42 year boom. The plant, described as the world’s largest maker of horse drawn vehicles, is flooded with new orders amid a revival of interest in horse powered transport.
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Marion
W. H
Bill) Houghton
Houghton Sulky Co
Houghton carriages lead global harness craft
Houghton and Marion carriages dominate racing sulkies and show buggies worldwide. Most sulkies in films Back Home in Indiana and David Harum carry the Houghton mark, as do many Ringling Bros. wagons. A finished buggy requires about 90 days of work from numerous craftspeople, with roughly 150 parts fitted to each sulky.
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Houghton
America
W Wioughton
Marion
Indiana
David Harum
Ringling Bros
Barnum Chatley
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B. D. Sellers
Barber
Robert Burnham
Magnolia
C. P. Cherry
Vicksburg
Sim Weeks
Grangerburg
M. F. Whitehurst
Gordon
Howard Register
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Maude King
Enon
L. 8. Sewell
Crosby
Skipper
Cross Roads
L. H. Skipper
New Providence
Jellico
Gussie Glover
Pilgrim Best
Ralph Cox
Stake Bodies
Leg & Lumber
Bendix Hydro-Bac
Midland & Westinghouse
Dorsey
Nichols Trailer & Equipment CO
Montgomery Highway
Woodall
Troy St
Cash Drug Store
Lversharp
Chicago
Joe Wilman
ABC
Navy
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Takien
E. 8. Gregory
Army
War Assets Administration
Dr. D
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George
Union
Hathcock Lumber
N. Oates
Glidden
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U.S. Army
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