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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1935
Page
1
Upton Sinclair outlines a production-for-use program aimed at addressing semi-starvation for 50 million. He vows EPIC support for Roosevelt if he backs the plan, and signals a national EPIC campaign and a new End Poverty League constitution.
Sunday and Monday features Claudette Colbert in Private Worlds with Boyer McCrea Bennett and Vinson. Dethen Eagle News and Betty Boop cartoon. Tue only Marlene Dietrich in The Devil Is a Woman with Atwill Romero. Bounding Main. Wed only Ginger Rogers in A Shriek in the Night with Talbot Pratt. Campus Hoofer. Paramount Pictorial. Thu Fri Shirley Temple in Our Little Girl with Ames McCrea. Strings and Strains. Sat only Charles Ruggles Boland in People Will Tell with Hyams. Vacation Daze. Tailspin Tommy. Sun Mon double feature Gertrude Michael It Happened in New York with Talbot. Movieland Revue. Horses Collars. Gwen Head with Ford Kent. Tue only Hazan in Jaws of Justice with Sullivan Terry. The Whole Show. Wed Thu Robert Montgomery Hayes Vanessa Her Love Story with Stone Kruger. Life of the Party. Fri Sat Tim McCoy Law Beyond the Range with Seward. Two Little Lambs. Call of the Savage. Colbert The Gilded Lily. Bereen Snapshots Medbury in the Actics. Tue Wed Myrna Loy Wings in the Dark with Grant. Old Saw Bones. Thu Fri Anne Shirley Anne of Green Gables. Uncivil Warriors. Sat Buck Jones in
The Texas Ranger presents Carm elita Geraghty in a feature alongside the comedy Babes at Sea and the mystery Mystery Sfountain in a stacked bill promising varied entertainment.
Dr J M Baker outlines summer first aid for sunstroke and heat exhaustion. Sunstroke requires cooling and water, with a physician summoned. Heat exhaustion is collapse from heat with exertion. move the patient to a cool place, loosen clothing, offer small sips of water.
The text warns against external cold applications and outlines basic first aid for fainting and drowning. It advises cooling the body, offering water and stimulants, keeping the patient flat with head low, ensuring fresh air, and calling a doctor. It notes drowning as a form of asphyxia and cautions not to swim soon after meals or alone. Continuous artificial respiration is urged until help arrives.
The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad filed with the Public Service Commission to discontinue the agency at Ariton and keep the stop as a prepaid station. A hearing was scheduled for June 4.
Beaty Whiddon arrives home after spending several days in Birmingham attending to business.
The Federal Land Bank of New Orleans will sell at public auction on June 1, 1935, in front of Houston County Court House, Dothan Alabama, the north half of the northeast quarter of section 16 township 7 range 9, containing 8 acres more or less, to satisfy the indebtedness secured by a mortgage from J O Wilson and wife Addie Wilson dated August 1, 1827 and recorded in Houston County probate office. FT. Speight, Attorney. May 13-29-27
The mortgage by J N Zorn and Sallie Zorn to Beatrice F Smith dated Sept 15 1921 and recorded in book 157 page 538 Houston county Alabama was transferred to Emma F Whetstone. With fault continuing the sale will be held for cash at the Dothan courthouse in Houston county on June 13 1935. Property is Lot 4 Block 5 North West Hill Addition to Dothan as per plot in book 1 page 590. Pettus & Fuller Attorneys Selma Alabama May 13 20 27.
W.8 Wilson and his wife are named in a Houston County notice. The fragment indicates a legal proceeding or property matter involving the couple, with no further readable details available in the text presented.
The Land Bank of New Orleans declares the entire indebtedness due on a mortgage securing land described as parts of Sections 34 35 and 7 in Townships 1 3 and 2 Ranges 28 29 30 in Houston County. The property totals 616 acres more or less lying west of Cedar Creek Chattohoochee River Gin Branch and public roads. J J Speight attorney for the mortgagee notes the filing date May 8 13 20.
Default on a mortgage by Lilia and Dallis Ryans to F M Gaines dated November 23 1929 transferred to Emma F Whetstone. In front of the courthouse Dothan Houston County Alabama on June 13 1935 sale of Lot No 16 Block C Fairmont Addition City of Dothan. Sale for purposes provided in the mortgage.
The article chronicles Thomas Edward Lawrence known as Lawrence of Arabia, his rise from Oxford to Carchemish, aiding Arab revolt, and his later retirement. It notes his knack for action over study, his rapid fame, and his refusals of honors while shaping Middle East affairs.
Pettus and Fuller, attorneys of Selma Alabama, publish a notice listing dates May 13 20 and 27 for their legal proceedings or filings. The brief notice identifies the firm and city, with the three May dates in sequence.
The fragmentary text outlines a writer named T. Bbaw, noted for a 1927 abridged work and an 1919 postwar disillusionment book. It mentions a 1982 treatment of Arabs, a mechanic role in the Air Force, and a publicized translation of the Odyssey with an American edition in 1939.
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