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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1934
Page
4
Turpent ine firm 2012 sales 94 receipts 568 shipments 27 stock 6 626 Rosin firm sales 1 280 receipts 2 998 shipments 376 stock 96 646 Quote prices listed from B to N with various grades and ranges.
Washington May 20 AP The Supreme Court ruled the 1933 Arkansas statute exempting insurance policy proceeds from liability breached the obligations of contracts. The unanimous decision by Chief Justice Hughes said the exemption was an unwarranted interference with contract obligations. Legal scholars sought exact scope, whether it voided the entire act or only its retroactive feature.
Cambridge May 29 AP Harvard track coach Eddie Farrell predicts LSU junior Jack Torrance will surpass 58 feet in the 18 pound shot put. Farrell says Torrance has reached the needed speed and strength, noting blurting praise as past feats seemed far fetched.
Chicago May 29 AP US Dept of Agriculture hogs with weight above 200 pounds active five higher than Monday. Other weights slow and weak. 210 to 310 pounds bring 3.50 to 3.60 top 3.65. 150 to 250 pounds 3.00 to 3.50. Most pigs 2.25 down. Feeding sows 2.65 to 3.00. Medium 200 to 250 pounds 3.40 to 3.65. Heavy 250 to 350 pounds 3.45 to 3.65.
Chicago May 29 AP butter totals 18 768 firm with creamery specials around 23 3 4 to 24 1 4 cents per lb and extras 22 1 4 to 23 1 4 for firsts and 20 to 20 1 2 for seconds. Eggs cited at 30 801, steady with no changes in price or sales activity. No other sales reported.
Cotton prices opened five points higher on cables but faced scattered offerings, slipping to 1170 for December before a rally in the afternoon lifted a couple more points. Torrential rains hit Savannah Augusta Charleston and Wilmington districts, with no other belt weather. Trading volume remained light and mostly local. Spot buyers took July while commission houses sold on the early bulge as all domestic markets except New Orleans closed tomorrow.
Mrs. Curtis Gandy Jr, of Tea Neck New Jersey, said her son, found dead in San Francisco, spoke to her via a telephone conversation the day before his body was recovered. Police say he had been dead for days, but his father and twin brother also recall hearing his voice in dreams that night.
Edward C. Foster of Providence, RI, president of the National Boxing Association, suspended Barney Ross for failing to honor a Fort Worth contract. Texas officials had already suspended Ross. promoters claim they spent 12,000 preparing. Reinstatement possible if Ross fulfills the match. Suspension not affecting New York or Illinois decisions.
Washington women admit ages in a golf tournament effort by Washington State Women's Golf Association to start a senior women's event. Ten players disclosed they are 50 or older, with a comment about carrying clubs past the half century. First tourney planned as a one day event with the state meet in Bellingham next year.
John Ward Studebaker, longtime Des Moines school superintendent since 1920, is chosen to succeed Dr. George F. Zook as U S education commissioner. He will assume office July 1 after a career starting as a brick mason and advancing through efforts to fund a college course.
Betts Slingluff vents perturbed about Enterprise naming its baseball team. Curtis Granberry and Arthur Ussery add that the community should stop the chosen name Boll-Weevils and urge a change before it spreads. Readers protest via comments on local sports branding.
In letters to the editor readers mock a prank on an early morning freight train, critique leaning towers and Mussolini, celebrate Gulf-area expansion, and warn about railroad track dangers urging visible signals for locomotives.
The Christian Advocate discusses a novelist whose craft yields stories that feel too strong for conventional bestseller status, highlighting the tension between literary merit and mass appeal. The piece suggests a writer whose work resonates deeply with readers yet resists mainstream market fitting.
In Bells Tennessee on May 29 physicians fought to save the sight of a three month old boy attacked by red ants while in his crib. The parents were away tending a tomato field when they returned to find the infant unconscious as ants formed a continuous line over the child’s face.
A description notes that Emory University in Atlanta Georgia hosts a student body including thirty two states one United States possession and nine foreign countries, highlighting broad geographic representation within the campus community.
A small anecdote captures a father figure explaining penury to a child by saying it is the wages of the pen. The remark links hardship to labor and writing, reflecting a playful yet pointed view of poverty.
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