This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 22 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1932
Page
1
Clarence Budington Kelland-like narrator weighs tax reform ideas, asks what counts as luxuries, cites charm of old habits, warns against rash talk on baby snatching, notes the Masonic Building plan, praises the optimistic fisherman, and ends with a jolt on credit totals.
A scrambled column blends quotes on the Lindbergh kidnapping, politics, spring signals, and everyday woes. It riffs on public hunger for pies, borrowing trouble, and the grocer selling outside pieces of toast amid a rainy day mood.
The Police Gazette has ceased publication and is no longer issued. Once famed as a leading scandal sheet, it could not compete with newer, more lurid titles proliferating today.
A longtime Alabama writer cites John Temple Graves on centralization and Prohibition, noting Garner opposed Prohibition but favored states rights. The piece digresses into Democratic delegates for Roosevelt, contrasts Smith and Roosevelt beliefs, and laments prejudice masking political views before offering a closing jab at coal dealers.
The Hawley Smoot tariff is blamed for plunging Canada US trade by hundreds of millions. Canadian purchases from the United States fell sharply in a decade of tariff shifts, amid calls that Republican leadership faces a Democratic sweep next November.
Twenty years ago in Dothan H Y Brooke assistant examiner of public accounts and candidate for Congress at large was in the city. Walthugh Lee departed for Oxford Georgia to enter Emory University. Byron Trammell postmaster returned from Birmingham where he attended the Republican convention. Irene Jenkins sang at a theatre here. J K Harris set for a business trip to Marianna. Ben Harris Ben Faulk Emerton M techne and J B Harris visited Smyrna Co Alabama. Wigsine of Ardmore Oklahoma formerly of Dothan was visiting. WC Hsiman of Hartford stopped in Dothan en route home from St Louis.
The piece mocks the Federal Farm Board and its officers pay. It notes head Joseph Stone objects to a salary cut from 12000 to 9500 yearly. It argues many Americans would accept such pay, claiming it reflects Hoover prosperity.
A hoarded dollar laments long retirement, urging its owner to release it to stimulate work, buying, and employment. The voice speaks for many idle dollars, arguing that freed money supports creditors, farmers, factories, and communities, and pleads for action to revive confidence and growth.
Fragmentary OCR text presents a puny query about dry agents and hoarded money. Names, dates, and clear actions are unreadable, offering little factual content to summarize into a concise news item.
A garbled archival snippet references a Greek speaking waiter and a person named Torepied, with scattered phrases indicating a linguistic joke or misheard speech about West Virginia and mountain region terms. The readable items are unclear and lack coherent event details.
New York gossip column notes unauthenticated facts about the city. It claims many oddities such as Broadway sidewalk problems and diners resisting insolent waiters, guesses on the Eighth Avenue subway, and observations on fashion, travel, and urban life. It highlights a multimodal mix of humor and social anecdote about New York’s era.
A waggish panhandler in front of the Palace paraded with a tonic bottle, showing passersby the label "Take after every meal." He begged for funds to buy a doughnut so he could "take his medicine," joking about the bottle and inscription.
Washington reports that since Christmas, several Democratic leaders in the House have fallen ill and quit their posts. Democratic whip Big John McDuffie of Alabama has entered the Naval Hospital in the capital to recover his health amid ongoing party organizing pressures and duties.
Collier of Mississippi, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, is forced to quit as the panel focuses on enacting measures to raise federal revenues. The busy session and heavier workload contribute to ailments among congressmen, as eagerness for new jobs compounds strain.
The passage notes Joe Burns of Tennessee and Hatton Sumners of Texas are adjusting to new routines and monitoring their health. While McDuffie was hospitalized, Sumners proposed a House bill to cut funeral service expenses for deceased congressmen. McDuffie joked in a letter asking Hatton to clarify the intent.
The Louisville Herald Post notes rising marriage rates since 1830 with 33.9 percent of men and 56.8 percent of women married then, versus 65.9 percent of men and 12.7 percent of women in 1930, while more divorcees appear today and attitudes toward divorce have softened over a century.
A Boston Transcript opinion cites frustration that Chinese people should simply exit China and remain away, reflecting wartime xenophobic sentiment. The remark implies drastic curtailment of rights based on nationality.
A medical discussion on human malformations and their varied origins. It outlines hereditary and environmental causes from prenatal development to early embryonic stages, noting how nutrition, toxins, infections, and maternal health influence congenital anomalies. It stresses careful supervision of expectant mothers.
Children meet a horned horse gnu in a plains tale. The gnu describes his odd looks, white tail, and upward curved horns and notes declining numbers as humans expand. He mentions cousins like white-bearded gnus and brindled blue-tailed gnus, hinting at a once lush Africa.
A quirky old menu item lists Italian soil imagery and names while presenting a meatless menu. It includes a macaroni and cheese recipe with butter flour milk cheese and seasonings, plus notes for hot slaw and apple sauce cake and a caramel frosting. The text mixes playful phrases with broken instructions and cooking steps.
In a column exploring adolescence, Alice Judson Peate describes Ada as she grows into secrecy. Ada, until age eleven, shared most things with her mother, but she then becomes private with diary entries and confidants. The piece notes natural curiosity and adolescent secrecy.
Fragmentary dialogue notes an antelopes roaming across the continent and mentions waterbucks reedbucks and other wildlife. A speaker speaks of daytime as busy with marketing and daily tasks before bidding farewell.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.