This portion of a 1923 MONTGOMERY ADVERTISER cartoon is an incredible exposition of the people and buildings that served as models for the fictional Aven, Alabama created in Dougie Bailey's imagination for his novel DEVIL MAKE A THIRD. The Malone-Harrison Ford dealership in the top left is still standing on the corner of S. St. Andrews Street and E. Crawford. St. Andrews Street is ST. SIMON STREET in DEVIL MAKE A THIRD. That car dealership was founded as Dothan Carriage Company in 1894 by Captain G.Y. Malone. Captain Malone was the model for AMOS LONGSHORE . To the right of that is a depiction of 63 year-old Dothan Police Chief Tobe Domingus who was the model for TOBE PARODY. Tobe is turning a mechanical traffic signal to "GO" as he hand-signals a mule (possibly a City of Dothan owned animal) labeled "Hotel Project" to stop. The Houston Hotel was not constructed until 1927. Above the mule is a building labeled Municipal Auditorium which was the model for the AVEN OPERA HOUSE.

Below this section of the cartoon is a depiction of the Hotel Martin (model for HARRISON HOUSE) on East Main (model for BASIN STREET). The tents on the roof of the hotel indicate some sort of party is going on. From the crowd of men in front of the hotel yelling "Packed tight!" and "A room! A room! My kingdom for a room!", it's easy to assume that the legs hanging out of the Hotel Martin windows are female ones. The character labeled "Danny" climbing the ladder with a load of bricks is Dan Baker, the model for JEFF BANNON. He's yelling to the crowd, "Sorry folks-we're adding on as fast as we can." Additions to the hotel trail off into infinity. The character on top of the first addition is labeled "Dug." holds a trowel and yells "More mort", "mort" meaning mortar. This is Dug Baker, the model for HEARN BAKER. (from the November 14, 1923 MONTGOMERY ADVERTISER)