image from the November 8, 1925 BIRMINGHAM NEWS

 From the September 9, 1948 DOTHAN EAGLE front page article entitled DOTHAN AUTHOR MAKES DEBUT WITH FINE NOVEL by Victor Smith:

 "By this time Dougie had acquired a lovely wife and the first of his two children, was all tangled up with trying to properly provide for them and himself and getting pretty discouraged about the writing game. Maybe, after all, he wasn't a born writer.

"But Louie Liddell Herzberg of Gadsden, the beautiful actress, singing and dancing star and super-expert stenographer who consented to and did become Mrs. Dougie Bailey, wouldn't let him quit. She was an extremely talented, intelligent and accomplished girl- a graduate of the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music and the American Academy of Theater and Arts- and she never stopped believing Dougie had something.

"She used to type Dougie's manuscripts even before they were married and she has been and still is, he proudly declares, his mental, moral and manual bulwark...For a long time Mrs. Bailey was one of the few people who took Dougie seriously. His brother Billy, a hard-headed businessman, was one of the early scoffers, is now one of his staunchest backers."