20 Jul 1907
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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1907
Page
1
Fragmentary dialogue references a theater incident with a guest named Nell and Beasaing, noting a chaotic moment where one character hides under seats and is later recovered. The text conveys light social banter and mischief around a public venue.
A fragment promotes the Dothan National Bank offering loans at legal rates with acceptable collateral. It mentions money for paying bills or other purposes and invites customers to talk it over. The note emphasizes receiving a preferred treatment.
The Baptist Special will leave Montgomery around eight Tuesday morning and reach here about noon with a stop at Troy. The train is expected to be locatd, and a committee will meet the delegates and assign them to their homes while in the city.
Representatives from every section of Alabama will attend the upcoming State Convention in Dothan next week drawing an estimated 400 to 560 delegates and visiting dignitaries. Hon. Henry D. Clayton with E. M Wilcox and L. M. Duncan traveled to Slocomb to speak at the farmers institute, then to Enterprise for Saturday addresses. Dr Botany of the A and M College will discuss Blackrot in Cotton and prevention, while Prof. Dues of the Alabama Experiment Station speaks on crop rotation and soil maintenance with live stock considerations.
Mrs McCord died after a week of severe illness on June 20 1907 aged 63. Born and raised in Georgia she joined the Primitive Baptist church at seventeen and remained a faithful member at Mt Pleasant near Ardila. She leaves a husband seven children many grandchildren and friends. Her bedside blessing spoke of heaven and her two predeceased children. Written by A Friend.
A fragment discusses a Scottish bedding tradition where a single sheet is used as a large cover from feet to head, doubled at the foot. Travelers like Fynes Moryson and John Ray noted the practice, which persisted into later times, with larger sheets termed cheets and newer ones called half sheets.
A newlywed woman hastily preps before an unexpected visitor. With her maid away she fastens a ribbon at her throat and powders her face, then greets the caller with smiles. The grocer or “gentleman” proclaims the cheapest clotheslines, an odd detail amid the scene.
A brief note suggests tall people tend to be longer than shorter peers and those born in spring may have different constitutions than spring births elsewhere. The text emphasizes a possible link between height and season of birth.
Charles B. Stephene offers safe machines and hand typewriters for rent re aired and exchanged. Located at Box 484 Dothan Alabama.
A Brooklyn schoolyard exchange highlights the stress and pride of promotions in public schools. A girl questions whether promotion was earned while another asserts she was not upgraded, claiming many have better education and that the teacher was left back.
The article explains bees form hexagonal cells not by instinct but by mechanical pressure. Solitary bees make circular cells and honeybees’ hexagonal cells arise from pressure on soft pliable cylinders, a result of mechanical laws rather than deliberate design.
A London Tit-Bits excerpt recalls a family scene where the sister defends the young man at dinner. Father doubts him, but the sister publicly vouches for his character and asks the father to reconsider judging a man by appearance.
Joe Baker plans a three story hotel over a cellar storage, totaling about a hundred rooms with a corner east entrance, extending to St Andrews street. Block neighbors J R Young Dr Howell Mr Bush and Mrs Pil cher may soon rise three stories as well, creating a handsome town property.
Bill Webb Reed, a resident living a few miles west of Columbia, died suddenly near his home last Monday while in his buggy and en route to Columbia. The brief notice notes the unexpected death in the local area, with details of the location and timing limited by the fragmentary text.
A writer laments robins raid gardens eat berries and worms. He recalls robins destroying alder berries and nests, noting their cold tolerance and harmful impact on soil and young birds. He prefers sparrows to robins for gardeners.
In Houston County Alabama a chancellery suit against John Summerset, a non-resident of Alabama residing in Florida with unknown postal address, requires him to plead by August 10, 1907 or a decree pro confesso will be entered. Publication to run weekly for 11 weeks in the Eagle of Dothan.
A writ of Seizure issued out of the Circuit Court in Houston County Alabama directs the sale of a dark mare mule about 12 years old. The property belongs to J. Culbreth D Culbreth and W H Williams as charged in favor of Malone Sons Co. The sale is set for Monday July 29 1927 at the courthouse door in Dothan during legal hours. Dated Dothan July 19 1907.
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