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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1931
Page
1
Fragment from the Dothan Eagle showing subscription rates and department listings. Contains references to the Ingrustts Fueling Company, the Dothan area, and various ads and notices. Includes distribution statements from the Associated Press and notes on editorial policy and terminology.
The American Game Association suggests odd worm catching methods including sprinkling lawns to lure worms and using a kitchen extension cord with copper curtain rods stuck into the ground. When powered, worms within about eight feet are said to surface to investigate the disturbance.
The Asniston Star criticizes Governor Long's cotton plan but supports increased cotton use through an intelligent advertising campaign. The paper cites California and Florida fruit growers as a model, urging widespread cotton consumption in the South to boost home wear and household cotton goods while acknowledging the need for courage and greater public health awareness.
The Eagle notes Houston County Health Unit and Child Welfare Department staff totaling nine plus a physician, with 9 years or more service forming about a tenth of the workforce. Federal and state funds cover most costs, with county and private sources funding the remainder.
Column features playful mining of quotes from Paine and Governor Ritchie, noting humor as vital to long life and national spirit. It discusses public trust, currency with Willam Crawford likenesses, and a digressive view of politics, printing, and brain science curiosities in a fragmented 1916 sense.
A report outlines payments to a secretary and a nurse, with the secretary funded by the county and the nurse supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, excluding her automobile expenses which are county paid. Dr Granger provides the foregoing facts as stated for public record.
A Philadelphia Inquirer essay argues sustained cash reserves outperform risky bets. It notes $55 at six percent growing to 320900 today, compares real estate and stock outcomes, and warns that character alone fails without cash. It urges savers to build wealth through prudent, disciplined saving and compound interest.
Report from the eighty second American Chemical Society meeting cites Dr Alexander Getler and Dr Joseph Niederland detailing isolation of pure ethyl alcohol from biological sources. The discussion suggests internal brain chemistry supports alcohol tolerance and questions external supply, with debate on brain function and prohibitionist implications.
A fragmented item praising Batchelor as a big businessman and noting public disorder around prohibition rhetoric. The text references Bishop Cannon, Senator Caraway, and mentions danger, crime, and satire while offering scattered lines about wealth, virtue, and life’s disappointments.
Dr Lago Goldeton explains gallstone blockages causing biliary colic with sudden intense upper right abdominal pain radiating to the shoulder and accompanied by chills vomiting and fever. Attacks may last hours to weeks. jaundice can occur if bile flow is blocked. Surgery is often indicated as dissolving stones is ineffective.
The article argues that romantic love alone rarely yields happiness and that many adults fail to marry for idealized reasons. It notes children suffer when marriage is imperfect and domestic friction disrupts a child's security, urging parents to live harmoniously and support each other with tolerance and shared interests.
In a New York letter William Gaines Sew recounts three old time minstrel men performing at Fagan's upstairs cafe in Green Bay Wisconsin. Jimmy Fagan leads the trio with ties to Appleton and Rochester NY, while Ward Barton and Seth Thomas share vocal and guitar duties. The piece also notes Manhattan traffic quirks and a local Hyenas club with Gladys Shaw Birkiné as treasurer.
John and Peggy recall a vast airborne complex ringed by a huge wall, a futuristic endurance plane concept. The pilot explains similarities to long flying craft from children’s tales, yet modern builds allow planes to stay aloft for ages. Some reach Earth to be rebuilt, while crews repair and repaint them from above, reading messages down to the ground.
Mise Blanche Toney Birmingham flying stenographer adds a parachute jump to her air record leaping from a plane 2000 feet over the muni teips airport and landing near the marked target.
Construction will begin on a detention building and dormitory at the state training school for girls in Birmingham to confine unruly inmates. The project costs 4209 dollars. Gilbert English, third sacker of Durham club, has been sold to the New York Giants. A related note describes a farm scene with cows and a humorous exchange.
A recipe style menu item outlines broiled porterhouse steak with mushrooms and brown sugared crumb cake. Includes milk, eggs, spices, and buttered vegetables with step by step cooking times and method for browning mushrooms and finishing steak.
A travelogue on Mexico’s geography and climate notes the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, the Sierra Madre, and high plateaus with snow. It recalls Father Miguel Hidalgo’s 1810 march that sparked Mexico’s independence, the Liberty Bell at the National Palace, and Napoleon III’s failed Mexican schemes.
Fragmented OCR text presents cryptic phrases about money and power. Names appear as Ader and Cobtec with likely references to individuals and places, but core facts are unclear. The item reads like a stray poetic or opinion fragment with no cohesive event, date, or location.
Carl McIntyre of Radford visits Henry Witlan returning from an estate in Panama City.
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