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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1900
Page
8
The advertisement touts Ideal Deering binders with solid steel cutter bars and easy three minute track placement. It claims superior reliability, bicycle ball and roller bearings, and urges readers to join the Deering family with a May Day delivery amid a big harvest campaign in 1900.
Sole agents for Brown Spring-Trip Cultivators, Brown Double Harrows, Wright's Corn Planters. Advertises Mogul Log Wagon for hauling logs and light running Tennesee wagon. Claims saving customers money and urges buyers to see the beat.
Col A M Hughes announces appointments of census enumerators for Columbia and Ninth civil district. Names include John R Holcomb L A Goslin W W Craft A A Hodge Miss Mary Beecher. Adds census facts and questions planned for 1900 01, notes June enumeration window and Merriam as director.
Special to Hexam reports Theo Trautman of John E. Hurst & Co. Baltimore hanged himself in a Duncan Hotel room after expressing despondency over poor sales. His body found next morning. He left a letter for his Baltimore wife. Also appears an advertisement for a Rheumatism cure.
Nashville April 24. A decree of the United States Circuit Court placed Farmers' Savings & Building & Loan Association of this city in receivership in the case G W Harlin v Farmers' Savings & Building & Loan Association. The bill seeks winding up as the firm cannot sell new stock or conduct new business and liquidation is claimed easier under receivership in this federal court.
Advertises Paz Ointment as a guaranteed pile cure available through druggists in Columbia Tennessee. Claims refunds if not cured, promises quick results, and offers mail order with price in cents.
A fragmented note from the Memphis Commercial Appeal references a gubernatorial vote for MecMillin and McMillin as well as a U S Senate contest. It also briefly alludes to political figures Platt and Quay and mentions a druggist A T Hains in Columbia with a cryptic reference to medicines.
The Mt. Pleasant Chronicle reports an alarming labor shortage in phosphate fields as large contracts loom. Mines fear difficulty securing enough miners to dig, prepare, and load rock over the next three months, signaling potential price increases for Mt. Pleasant phosphate. Some firms hold kilns of last fall’s rock and expect prices to rise soon as sellers hold firm.
The Cuban census shows natives and whites outnumber blacks, with total population 1,572,797. White males 447,972 and male negroes 111,898. foreign white males 115,700. total male 815,205. There are 140,000 qualified native voters and 32 percent literacy.
More than 2000 missionaries gather in New York for the ecumenical conference. Ex-president Benjamin Harrison welcomes delegates as preparations span a decade. The gathering includes leaders from seven major societies and runs until May 1 with sermons on Sundays.
The nationwide weighing of United States mail concludes Monday afternoon after sixty days. Reports will be sent to Washington and railroads expect to receive data on pounds handled within thirty days. The annual weighing, a four year cycle, aimed to average mail volume across railways but was boosted this year by alleged fraud of Western lines stuffing the mails.
The device shows strong friendship gains from last season and promises improvements for 1900. It features full adjustments and durable construction designed to satisfy exacting standards.
Knights Templar De Molay Commandery No 3 of Keighes Templar will hold a meeting at the Masonic Temple at 7:80 o clock in the evening on May 1st. Resident and visiting Sir Knights are cordially invited to be present.
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