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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1920
Page
2
Accounts vary on when the Oberammergau Passion Play began with some tracing the custom before the Thirty Years War and others dating it to 1654. Bavarian peasants vowed to present the play if the plague ceased and kept that vow until the war interrupted the sequence.
Vancouver Island offers hunters and anglers rich and mostly untapped forests, abundant game, and famed salmon fishing rivaling Scotland. Scenic drives from Victoria, including Malahat and Sooke, showcase shoreline, giant trees, and near-deserted towns with hotels and golf courses.
A wide dairy guide outlines abortion costs, feeding ratios, and breed choices. It stresses isolating aborting cows, using top veterinarians, and reading Farmers' Bulletins 576 594 743 993 and 865 for best practices. It promotes high butterfat, forage first, milking young stock, and silos for winter rations.
On a western Virginia trip George Washington noted an “oil sorting” and urged trustees to consider its potential. This marked an early spark in U S petroleum production, an industry now delivering about 856 million barrels annually.
The coconut tree provides food and drink from the nut and its milk can be made into an intoxicant where desired. Fiber yields ropes rugs and matting while husk and fuel are used for energy. Wood is durable and serves many native purposes.
A historic suit spanning four centuries began in 1490 over lands in Poland. The Sobieskis of Oro Lowo and Sobieskis of Podlowo contested ownership until a settlement was reached in 1800 dividing the property among the original litigants' representatives.
A man who escaped an asylum was tracked down in a large dancing hall in the west end. He was detected as he danced in perfect time with the music, drawing suspicions from fellow dancers and leading to his rearrest, as reported by Punch of London.
A brief quotation attributed to Allen asserts that achievement reflects self control and directed thought while vice and indolence lead to decline. The line frames a moral universe where personal discipline crowns effort and thought.
In 1772 Harvard College raised 8200 pounds by lottery to fund a new hall for students. The Boston Globe notes the fundraising was not via alumni subscriptions but a state like lottery approach. The event reflects early college capital campaigns and historical fundraising methods.
In Turkish cemeteries small water vessels rest on graves to aid birds. The belief holds that birds carry messages from the living to the dead.
A Toledo Blade note quotes a man saying you may accept this as a true story and coins a remark about a town critic who spends much time knocking the town yet erects none of its tall buildings.
Sofia May 12 Bulgarian Premier A Stambouliski leader of the Farmer's Party announces an immediate national rebuilding campaign. He says Bulgaria must mobilize industry and improve railways roads and public buildings to recover from war damage and revive the economy. The party won a sweeping electoral victory and will push measures to rehabilitate the nation.
M Stambouliski outlines aims to draft a law forcing all able Bulgarians into useful work and limits on farmland, while stressing non hostility to capital and plans to attract private investment. He seeks autonomous Thrace and better relations with neighbors including Jugo-Slavia, Greece, and the Allied Powers.
S. S. S. advertised as a blood purifier claims to cleanse rheumatism by removing the disease’s germs from the blood. The ad urges readers to obtain S. S. S. from a drug store and begin treatment now, noting medical advice contact in Atlanta Georgia.
Phone lines promote drug orders and rapid convention calls. County Chairman W R Deal and Secretary J K Whitten preside over a largely Republican delegation meeting across parts of the county. The note urges orderly conduct and unity in East Alabama politics. Learn to swim promotion closes the fragment with Spann Marchman Howe Co.
A mass meeting of Republican voters gathered at the courthouse in Dothan to choose delegates. The event occurred on a Tuesday during hot afternoon hours and included campaign chatter and local party organization remarks.
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