Safe farming program for Southeast Alabama farms
Farmers bankers and business men propose a year long plan guiding 30 acre unit plots with crops and livestock. Layout includes corn oats cotton peanuts and sugar cane, plus sows cows and chickens, urging soil friendly seed and careful credit use to restore prosperity in Houston County and Southeast Alabama. Signed by local banks including First National Bank of Dothan and Ashford Banks.
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Alabama
busi‘Dees
Teastoma Acre
Austin
Houston County
First National Bank of Dothan
Dothan Bank & Trust Co
First National Bank of Ashford
Farmers & Merchants Bank
Ashford
Bank of Columbia
Bank of Gordon
Bank of Cottonwood
The Lowly Peanut Prompts Price Decline in 1890s US
Rambling Reuben notes peanuts in Alabama Georgia and Florida underperforming as prices fall from 60 to 25 per ton. He blames foreign imports led by China with 20 million pounds of peanuts and oil imported in nine months. Canada and other nations also bought small amounts while domestic production lags behind.
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Reuben
Bince Dothan
America
Alabama
Georgia
Florida
Peanut Bulletin of Optember
Man’s wife cleans car to spite health, rewarded herself
A misread snippet describes a husband returning home to find his wife industriously washing the automobile. In apparent retaliation or reward to herself, she buys 51685 items, prompting concern from the husband about the strain of such labor and its impact on her health.
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Abd
First Rate Help and Prohibition Debates in 1920s Tea
The piece cites Shakespearean phrases applied to reformers and Legionnaires in Detroit. It notes Legionnaires petitioning Congress for a referendum on prohibition and some forming an anti Prohibition group called The Imps of Hell, Inc. The text mocks calls for louder temperance rhetoric and references Clarenca True Wilaona in a satirical voice.
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Avon
Clarence ‘True
Methodist Board of Temperance,Prohibition and Public Morals
Legionnaires
Detroit
Congress
Hell
Wilaona
Dwight W. Morrow's storied career and lifelong thrift
Dwight W. Morrow forged his path through college earning 460 a month, rising to prominence in business, finance, diplomacy and aviation. The account highlights his talents, diligence, and the moral lesson of perseverance and polite conduct for readers.
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Dwight W. Morrow
Buamera
Cotton paving blocks from cotton in road work announced
Tuskegee scientist Dr. G W Carver reports three paving blocks made of 75 percent low grade cotton. The blocks are firm and smooth and resist crumbling, with potential to create durable roads. The Mobile Register notes cotton’s possible vast role in future road construction and regional pride if prices and quality compete.
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Alabama
Tuskeyes
G. W. Carver
Mobile Regs
Carver
Tuskegee
Dothan woman sues city over sidewalk injury
Twenty years ago in Dothan Mrs Ennis and Mrs Clark are noted in a brief item. Ennis visited Lawrenceville Abbeville, while Clark of Troy filed a damages claim against the City of Dothan after tripping on a pipe left on a sidewalk by city employees.
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M.T Clark
Troy
Edna Ferber Criticized by Alabama Readers
The Plainsman reports Edna Ferber’s remarks mock youth and examinations, while Alabama students and educators defend American college minds. The piece highlights praise for northern universities and a push to improve enunciation and critical thinking among Southern students.
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Miss Ferber
New York
New Jersey
Edna Ferber
Ferber
University of West Virginia
Chicago
Chicago University
Unishig
Iew
York
Byt een Danceling Tale From Old Boston Transcript
Fragmentary OCR notes describe a social scene with Madge and a referenced Boston Transcript context. Names appear garbled but imply a dance or dating event with individuals such as Madge and early 20th century social commentary.
How's Your Health Eye Care Tips From Dh Lago Goldston
Practical guidance on safely removing eye irritants from a historical health column. Steps include flushing with clean water, tilting the head back, and gentle lid manipulation. If the speck persists, use a cotton end of a match stick with boric acid or water to locate and wipe the foreign body, then reflush.
Pilot Delivers Children To Walrus In Far Off Flight
Sundown Stories recounts a flight where a pilot takes John, Jepbn, and Peggy to a distant land. They meet a talking walrus who explains his home, weighs, and seasonal fur under a playful, surreal dialogue about aging and belonging.
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John
Jepbn
Peggy
Jonely
Tom
Hurph
Perxy
Big Old Waters
Talks to Parents ALICH JODSON PEALE
Albert, 16, lauded for intelligence and schoolwork yet miserable on streets. His father, a money minded businessman, neglects companionship. mother provides love and attention. The piece links the boy's gender nonconformity to lack of paternal involvement and maternal bonding.
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Albert
Breakfast to Dessert Menu with Homemade Bread Recipe
A newspaper snippet lists menus for the day covering Breakfast Lunch and Dinner including items like Oranges Cooked Corn Cereal and Cream Buttered Toast Coffer Lunbstfuted Tomato Salad and Peanut Biscuit with Rhubard Sauce for lunch and Mecaron and Hem Buttered Turnips and Cucumber Salad with Sliced Peaches for dinner. It then provides a bake recipe using flour baking powder salt milk and peanut butter to make a soft dough rolled and baked 15 minutes in a moderate oven and served warm with butter. The excerpt ends with Yellow and White Cake ingredients cream of tartar sugar vanilla and more and a fragment of dialogue by Jenn about peaks.
Montgomery Legion Adopts Beer Referendum Resolution
A Montgomery American Legion post adopted a resolution calling for a statewide referendum among members and WWI veterans on amending the National Prohibition Act to allow light wines and beer. The decision followed a stormy debate. officials planned a department referendum via The Lessonnaire.
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Montgomery
Alabama Department American Legion
Alabama
Montgomery Post
Post
Alabama Department of the Legion
Legion
Detroit
Bert Fitzpatrick
Montgomery Nest
Unpleasant Reading on Federal Judges and Public Mood
The piece reflects on the Wickersham Commission era and the shift in how federal judges view law and punishment. It contrasts past, respected jurists with modern pressures from public opinion and political influence, noting a sense of disillusionment with how sentences for crimes like counterfeiting and treason are framed. The author questions the dignity of the judiciary when daily work involves crowded courts and pressure from anti saloon leagues and informers.
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Peper Live
Wickersham Commission
United Triat
Fodaral
Ita
Federas
Bredience
Washington Letter on Prohibition Stance by Abs Pard
Herbert Plummer notes Senator Morrie Abspard of Texas favors a referendum demand by Americans but will push for stricter enforcement. He argues Prohibition has clear support, and Sheppard remains committed to the constitutional ban, painting the activist as a stern, rule-bound figure.
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Washington
Uke Morrie Abspard
Texas
Sheppard
Tean
Parm
Senator Sheppard The Prohibition Speaker At The Senate
The piece describes Senator Sheppard as a regular figure who speaks on Prohibition Day each year wearing a light gray suit and delivering lively banter. He enjoys golf, listens to good stories, and keeps a steady presence at quorum calls and voting in the Senate, moving quickly between offices and chambers.
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Sheppard
Senate
Congress
oFate
Chamber
Dell
Years In Congress Senator Sheppard’s Record Of Service
The article notes Senator Sheppard, a 56 year old Texas politician, aims to surpass all prior continuous service records in Congress. He has two years and four months of continuous service, with eleven years in the House and eighteen in the Senate, and begins a new term in December 1986 leading into March 1987.
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Sheppard
Congress
Texas
House
A Motto for Wall Street in Reno
A Reno painter named Lott advocates life philosophy to discouraged bankers in a Wall Street style talk. The ad reproduces his claim of being in business, facing censure, and surviving a robbery with defiant notes about endurance.
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Nevada
Wall
Exchanges
Mr. Lott
Reno
Bette
Lots
St. Hurricane
Bo N.Y
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