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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1908
Page
2
The piece argues that the best way to do any job is to do it well since success in this task can shape one’s future prospects. It emphasizes careful, diligent effort as the path to favorable outcomes.
The text describes meat on display in a market, noting flies around the cooling beef and a need for arrangement to keep them away before the first meal. It references Alabama enjoying recent rains and comments on preacher payments and rain relief.
In this fragment a speaker dismisses reluctance to work, insisting they would endure months of labor such as cutting wood or laying potatoes after rain to prove a point against Saf, a comparison that eclipses even a costly bet. The tone hints at negotiation, ambition, and social pressure surrounding toil.
The speaker argues Southern farmers should back Taft if cotton prices suit them. Bryan is dismissed as uninvolved, and fears that Democratic victory would drive cotton prices down are noted, though the current circumstances differ from past drops.
A crowded critique attacks Theodore Roosevelt for slander and attacks on Jefferson Davis Benton Calhoun and Clay accusing him of smearing America's historic figures and ignoring the constitution. The piece claims Roosevelt uses courts and law officers as puppets to advance his cabinet’s agenda and warns that electing Taft would empower a loose political machine.
Sirs Carroll of the First National Bank leads a movement to dedicate a State Fair day in Montgomery to sacred harp singing with Prof. W M Cooper as master of ceremonies. Cooper, famed for revising the sacred harp, can sing from memory with pages. Carroll hopes to announce a date soon for believers to attend.
The Eagle outlines a plan to publish county political data to aid citizens during crucial moments. The message stresses timely delivery aligned with primaries and cautions about incomplete details and-partisan affiliations among voters.
Analysis suggests the Independent vote and Debs vote will draw mainly from Republicans. The Chatin and Watson camps are expected to split roughly equally, but neither side will secure a decisive victory or bragging rights.
Will Jenkirs living northeast of Ashford was robbed in Dothan while selling cotton. Two unknown men held him up near a creek, taking seventy dollars from his pockets. He could not identify them. Sheriff Butler was notified but no lead was found and bloodhounds were not usable.
During the Montgomery fair next week Bowdoin Special will depart Montgomery at six in the morning and six in the evening instead of four. This shift gives visitors more time in the city and enables an earlier return home without the late night train. Dothan trains keep the same morning schedule.
Mr. R. K. Killebrew of Newton and Miss Mima of Blakely Ga were married this morning in Blakely and traveled here with Mr. T. J. Killebrew and Miss Lelu Killebrew.
Rev. N. Jemes of Columbia and R. E. Byrd from Coffee Springs were in town yesterday and today respectively, visiting residents and noting local activity.
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