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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1908
Page
6
The piece notes discriminatory practices in the District of Columbia hotels and eateries with inflated prices for Black patrons. It contrasts this with a local attitude of moving on and coexistence. It also reports a burned Coast Line bridge near Cairo, Georgia delaying west bound trains, including a four o clock arrival that night.
The ginners report shows two million bales ahead of last season up to November 1. If the belt harvests are near complete, the yield increase may shrink when totals are known. A call meeting of the Eastern Star is set for Tuesday evening November 17 at 7:30 led by Jessie M. Hunter W M.
The text describes the arrival of the battleship North Dakota at a Dothan lodge event with references to Masonic and fraternal groups. It compares the ship to the Mauretania and Lusitania, notes its ten 12 inch guns, 27 feet deep draft, and a ten million dollar cost. Additional fraternal meetings and a grammar lesson from Jenny appear in the excerpt.
Locked up for three nights over a murder verdict the Nelson Auckland jury asked to attend a ring picture at the Theater Royal. The judge granted their request as a relief which the jurors accepted with interest.
A self made, self satisfied itinerant preacher boasted education not needed for a call to the ministry. A college graduate listener teased him, recalling Balagam years ago when prophecy and eloquence rose without schooling, while the exchange about finances and employment hinted at critics and debt.
In a Nutshell. "Big father." declared the Indian who had been listening to a local candidate. "Theap scrap." And what if he is not elected. "Scrap heap." The Kansas City Journal records a salty exchange during a local campaign scene mixing dialect and blunt self reliance.
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