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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1931
Page
5
Washington November 2 The American hen outproduces the goose of gold egg fame claims an AP dispatch. The piece cites an aggregate hen laying 160 eggs in a day and 690 per minute value, suggesting high yearly earnings and substantial productivity for the average hen.
A brief note from Alabama lists Helen Twelvetrees in the production Woman of Zaperienes with Bet and Mack Brown involved in the cast.
Commerce and Finance note the present conditions and warn that haste to be rich has damaged moral forces. They argue losses may teach wisdom of honor sympathy and charity, suggesting if only money is lost no man should despair. The figures cited show income for a year at 1 275 000 000.
Auburn November 3 Farmers can produce and save Austrian winter pea seed in eight Alabama counties. Extension agronomist J C Lowery reports yields from 582 pounds per acre on average to 3 600 pounds per acre in some cases with 15 000 to 25 000 pounds seed per county. Main risks are heavy rains at bloom aphids worms and the advice to proceed cautiously over several years for soil building and reduced loss potential. Fairly thin land favors seed production and routines for harvesting seed include raking and threshing with standard equipment.
Leighton Page, guest of honor at a Woodville High School reunion party in Scottsboro, was fatally wounded by an empty pistol fired by a guest Saturday night. He died at a local hospital the following morning from a single gunshot wound to the head. Page, of Texas, had been invited to the chicken fry, and his body was sent to Woodville for interment. No arrests were made.
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