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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1934
Page
6
A missing six year old girl Dorothy Distelhurst vanished after leaving a Nashville home for kindergarten on September 19. Blood stains on a pavement and a torn handkerchief are reported as clues but police have found no trace of her. Authorities fear kidnapping and possible murder or hit and run.
Fragmented lines speak of grief and memory as a voice questions proper shade and attire for mourning Josaphing Aldrich Harris. The piece shifts to a social item about Miss Clyde Belcher hosting a peanut boiling gathering at her Ashford home with many guests listed.
Screen star Jack Hoxie returns to Dothan with the Sparks managed Downie Bros. Circus for a matinee and night show on Newton and Colere streets. Dixie Starr co stars with new cayebana cowgirls and crew, as filming proceeds for a western serial while the parade opens at 11 30 a m amid bright pageantry.
The State Game and Fish Department has mailed 90 060 hunting fishing and trapping licenses to 67 counties for sale during the 1934 35 fiscal year. The hunting license is 8 dollars. county hunting license 1 dollar. trapper license 15 dollars for the first trap and 2 50 for each additional trap.
W P Granberry, 78, of Columbia route three, died last night at 10 15 from a stroke of apoplexy. He died on his 14th wedding anniversary. Survived by widow, four sons Jackson Freddie Lester Veena, six daughters Florence Hasty Webb Bertie Smith Ola Chaney Jackson Tenn Cora Killingsworth Pothan Olga Porter Esther Pybus, all of area. Funeral 3 pm Thursday at Hebrum church with Masonic Lodge No 429 of Brown's Cross Triads in charge and Crawling Rhodes conducting.
The Sixth District Nurses Association calls a special meeting for Thursday at 3 30 PM at the Frasier Ellia Nurses Home. Full attendance is requested.
Little Rock Arkansas September 20 ADP Piring to capture alive a mysterious animal terrorizing farmers near here have been made by W R Sprott curator of the Little Rock municipal museum Sprott believes the animal is a panther or mountain lion and will seek to track it with a pack of dogs owned by a Little Rock sportsman He investigated after a state official asked him to check reports and at least a dozen persons claimed they had seen the cat Farmers warned to be on the lookout for the animal with a big game hunt planned when it appears again.
AP reports belts with pockets as a fashion novelty in 1924 35. One designer adds a musk rat pouch on the left of a brown leather belt to finish a tweed suit while another uses tiny pockets on each side of a bright green feather belt with a brown sport frock. Officials note Montgomery County Kansas voters paid 40 cents per vote in the 1934 primary election.
Fragmented home cooking notes describe baked pork chops with flour onions celery water and spices, plus baked apples with sugar cinnamon cloves and butter. The text includes incomplete steps, item counts, and cooking times such as 50 minutes for pork and 40 minutes for apples, with notes on browning and stirring.
A 71 year old reader from Tome writes that Thedford's Black-Draught has served him for about forty years. He uses it as a purgative when bloating dizziness and head swimming occur and says it relieves these symptoms and helps in many ways. The ad urges keeping a package at home for prompt constipation relief.
The Dothan Study Club will meet Thursday at 3:00 PM with Mrs Lawrence Oakley at her North Park Avenue home. Among Ashford visitors were Mrs B Johnson Mrs Sanford Pate Mary Nell Pate Mrs W E Pate and Mrs Bruce Leverette.
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