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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1931
Page
7
The column notes a drop in want ads as customers scale back spending, leading to tighter ad inventories and fewer notices across the marketplace. Local merchants report cautious budgets while service listings show reduced volume compared to prior periods.
Houston theaters announce Wed and Thurs showings with Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey in Caught Plastered and Fri night double feature with Douglas Fairbanks Jr and Loretta Young in One Line Our Nerve. Alabama theatre lists Wed-Thurs William Boyd in The Big Gambly and Fri-Sat Bob Steele in Near Traits End. A Soviet film Soil in Watsonville was banned after catching fire in a projector.
Venice, a young woman of airiness and immaturity, struggles with unpopularity and hatred of living alone. At Manning’s dinner, Ronald Wainwright, a dashing New York darling, appears to favor other women, prompting Venice to seek a glamorous escape with a camera and a new companion, while a sober marriage looms over her. Lola relays Wainwright’s choices, and Venice plans to break away from strict propriety to chase attention and affection.
Venice confronts Bacchus hunter and chides servant as she nurses humiliation after a tense social evening. She toys with romance and rivalry, watching Roland Wainwright dance with multiple partners while Venice and her companion Philip Manning attempt to salvage pride and find a favorable card table moment. Venice earns eleven dollars and forty cents in the bridge game, but the night leaves her feeling defeated and uncertain about her appeal.
Venice navigates social vanity after a feisty encounter with Roland Wainwright at her apartment. He kisses her, she retreats, then rues the moment as she contemplates popularity and longing amid a glamorous but empty milieu.
The sermon by William E Gilroy DD discusses temperance, law, and personal virtue. It argues law cannot forge character and stresses that true society rests on love and self control. It notes times when Christians disobeyed laws for conscience, warning against using law as anti social. Local notes mention gatherings, outings, accidents, and visits in Dothan and surrounding towns.
Gordon Ay Hall of Montgomery spent Sunday with brother S J Hall. Mrs John Williams returned from an extended Florida visit. Mr and Mrs John Sellers of Ashford visited Monday. Mrs Daisy Dean and Mrs Helen Allen visited Ashford Wednesday. Durell Glass and M V Marsh went to Jakin Ga Sunday. Mrs R L Espy returned after a week with daughter Mrs W D Farrior of Letchatchie who is improving. Misses Ovle Meadows and Eunice Ellers of Ashford taught in Gordon, spent the weekend at home. B H Cumble visited relatives in Troy Sunday. W W Peterson and Dewey Pendl of Columbia were there on business Monday. Misses Dorothy and Doris Godfrey and Marjorie McLendon shopped in Dothan Saturday. Beach and Bill Bruner of Ashford visited Sunday night. Mrs and Mrs O B Rountree and son Juan of Marianna were guests here. Mrs Lena Tuttle, Mrs Danny Dean and Mrs Allen shopped in Dothan Saturday. Norman Granberry of Boswell Indiana arrived Saturday for a visit. Mr and Mrs D F Adams and daughter of Dothan were guests of relatives here Saturday. G A Snead and J J Marsh visited friends in a Dothan hospital Sunday afternoon. J O Croom and J R Downey spent several days in Tampa. Frs Miss Trixie Burkett of Pansey was guest of Mrs Daisy Dean Sunday.
Manuel Fiesca Cruz, 38, began a 8890 mile voyage from Bath Maine aboard a 23-foot sloop toward Puntes Arenas Chite. The voyage, attempted earlier that year, stalled 28 miles off Cape Hatteras when picked up by the passenger steamer Somerset after sustaining an early setback.
Fragmentary notes describe a drifting vessel after 48 hours in a sinking heat. The crew relies on alarms and information from passing ships to adapt their course. The Cinulfles Ade in the Engle is cited in pursuit of profit.
A Oklahoma City man Barney Barnes formerly suffered indigestion for four years caused by stomach trouble. After using Pope’s Diapepsin he reports almost immediate relief and now can eat most foods without discomfort. He urges others to try Diapepsin for quick, certain relief of sour stomach and acidity.
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