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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1934
Page
3
Turpentine firm shows no sales with receipts 700 and shipments 28. stock 11 183. Rosin firm posts sales 2 001 receipts 3 767 shipments 709. stock 100 641. Quotes list commodity prices with several grades and futures.
Butter quotations and market terms from Chicago report steady trading with varied grades and receipts. The note includes standards, firsts, seconds and exels with price ranges and recent shipments, followed by a remark on extensive recent research into acidity and human health.
The article lists a full day menu including breakfast items like orange juice waffles bacon and coffee and a dinner of fried chicken and chilled beverages. It provides home recipe steps for jam galantine dessert and a summer salad with pineapple and cottage cheese and ends with notes on summer party ideas and travel and craft topics.
The report notes a July requirement for all foreigners to register in Peru. It mentions author Zane Grey with sales surpassing 12 million copies of his western stories and cites Guy Peacock as an author who taught the Prince of Wales and the Duke of York.
A compiled roundup notes two thirds of films imported into Australia come from the United States. Other items include Joseph Conrad resigning from the London Daily Mail staff, plans to make sour honey flavor vinegar, and Helen Jepson slated as the Met Opera’s blondest blonde.
The longshore and maritime walkouts spread across the San Francisco Bay area as 100000 workers join a general strike. Ferry service stopped, guards move in, and militiamen deploy on waterfronts while trucks bring in food and gasoline under tight security. Oregon cities like Portland weigh similar actions as Meier and Wagner seek mediation.
Governor Floyd B Olson orders a battalion of the 151st field artillery to Minneapolis as truck drivers strike widens. No violence reported yet. In New York radio ship crews and Oakland East Bay unions push action with broad disruption plans affecting transport and utilities. National guard units stand by to respond.
President Roosevelt signed an executive order directing the Postmaster General to investigate foreign airmail and ocean mail contracts made before June 16, 1933. The review will consider recommendations for modification or cancellation of those contracts.
Lt. Col. William D A Anderson, 53, on Maj. Gen. Paul B Malone's staff, died after months of illness in a Baltimore hospital yesterday.
An English court recorder testified he claimed an income tax rebate for wear and tear on his wig and was allowed 25 cents per year.
Santa Barbara cap neighborhood house runs a salvage shop reclaiming discarded articles to aid the unemployed. Suitcases are in demand with requests also for wood stoves and glass eyes, one such item recently listed as wanted.
Six year old Wayne Johnson died when he jumped from a wagon delivering cream and a younger brother drove on, a truck ran over him in Surgoinsville Tennessee. Also noted are the Louisville Speed Memorial for Fine Arts and a California guardianship petition by Mary Ryason. Kentucky expenditures cut about one third since 1931 per state fiscal official Nat B Sewell.
The United Textile Workers strike over NRA grievances affects Lincoln with 1750 workers Merrimack 1200 Dallas 800 Erwin 270 and Admiral Braid Mill. Birmingham Avondale 850 night shift walked out three hours before the announced strike, Sequiola Mill Gadsden also walked out causing mill closures. Earlier walkouts hit Dwight Manufacturing Alabama City 1500 and two mills at Guntersville and Albertville 500 more affected.
In Prattville and Montgomery, Bradford Cotton Co locals form a committee to present demands to mill executives before a potential walkout. They seek recognition of the United Textile Workers of America, a closed shop, and minor working condition changes. About 1,600 workers are affected as mills stay open.
A new London block of flats includes one room fists for widows, a baby buggy accommodation, and a mortuary chapel. The design emphasizes practical welfare features and community support within the housing scheme in the capital.
Sven Anders Hedin, renowned explorer, has logged 48 years wandering through Tibet, Mongolia, and Turkestan, shaping geographic and cultural knowledge with extensive journeys across remote regions.
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