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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1930
Page
2
Subscription rates and circulation details are listed, with mentions of misstatements and editorials. Articles discuss Capone associate arrest, lynching waves across states, Alabama militia guarding Huntsville, and light community commentary on Sunday movies in Opelika. The column closes with local anecdotes and notes about Barrett's marriage and grocery gifts for newspaper fans.
Twenty years ago the Eagle's Files details finishing work on East Main street making the cemetery walk pleasant. Visitors include Miss Marie Carlisle Enterprise, M O Gissendanney Macon, Frank Morgan Atlanta, J Hildreth Enterprise, Joseph Boyd Troy, W T Homan Hartford. Firemen battled a blaze at Fopt's Bottoms. Fire Chief M T Jones shocked by a faulty switch. Local jeweler sold cut glass tumblers at £1.50 a dozen. City officers elected. J L Domingus police chief. M T Jones fire chief. Aides listed.
The column discusses censorship in the United States and Britain. It criticizes Ohio bans on The Big House for political reasons, cites the Baltimore Evening Sun, and lists British prohibitions on film content from indecency to crime and race. The piece also reviews Alabama Historical Quarterly editor Marie Bankhead Owen and poet laureate Samuel Minturn Peck, highlighting local literary figures and a poetry evening.
A fragmented column by N. Frank Pridgen blends social whims and local chatter. It touches on par allel parking, young married women, Einstein, tax collector candidates, freshman blues, and a push to extend the school noon break. The piece weaves humor with mild criticism of local figures and routines.
San Francisco AP reports planning for west coast air defenses includes an air corps unit at Shreveport Louisiana. Proposed base near SAREveport would support bombardment and observation groups, with radar and training facilities, part of a five year program.
Collection of proverbs and social observations on bias, race, wealth, and passports. Scattered quotes mock prejudice and the fragile nature of identity, referencing British India, New York Times, and passport photography trends.
This excerpt highlights the kidneys as essential organs in physiology and medicine. It notes their role in elimination and waste removal, emphasizing the historical importance of kidney study and the body’s complex systems.
Fragmented text describes kidney function and the essential role of kidneys in filtering wastes and fluids, followed by a brief note on Vatican editions and a monastic staff for a new Bible edition. The passage also includes dialogue about going somewhere and a line about Oklahoma City Legionnaires funding college education for a youth from a state training school.
John and Peggy and the Little Black Clock travel with Ulder girls learning to shoot and work in fields as they build houses in Ephesus. Peggy and John marvel at the girls strength and discuss moving to see a great river named Amazon in a new world.
A reader in Dothan Alabama on October 1 1930 submits a brief letter to The Eagle editor critiquing a dollar and a half contest. The writer defines love as a strong feeling or fondness for a person or thing and remarks the sentiment is not felt for Tom Heflin.
Rast we wonder youre hungry. A fragment from a station note about meals and rumor in a small town, with names and a stray dialogue tag.
Famed ball eleven captain at University of North Carolina, Farris, tops scorers in the Southern Conference, enters Raleigh politics. He organizes North Carolina Democrats backing Josh Bailey in a bid for the U.S. Senate.
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