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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1909
Page
2
The piece argues price equals the paint's usefulness and cost equals its performance under wear. It claims cheap paint costs more in use and praises HORSE SHOE BRAND HORSE PAINT for value, including its honest materials and long coverage: seven gallons cover as much as ten of ordinary paint.
Pupils and teachers of Columbia City Schools present principal W E Bostick a handsome gold and silver watch and fob as a token of love appreciation. Tom Jackson voices the presentation as readings and songs fill the auditorium. The Braly Bros engraved watch bears 1908 1909 W E Bostick Presented by the pupils and the teachers.
Kim Buford and Sol Kittrell colored, implicated in a Spring Hill shooting, were arraigned Thursday before Esq. Fariss. They waived examination, bound over to Circuit Court in two cases each. One charge assault with intent to murder, another for carrying pistols. Bond set at 1000 in assault cases and 250 in pistol cases. They remained jailed after failing to post bond.
Wes Barker & Company of Columbia announces the start this week of a new sanitary poultry dressing plant. It will be a model of its kind south of Nashville, sized thirty by sixty feet on Fifth Street. The plant features a concrete floor and drainage linked to the city sewer, with capacity for one carload of dressed poultry per day.
Students from Howard Institute at Mt. Pleasant competed in a declamatory contest in the office of J. H. Dinning with James A. Bostick Jr. declared winner. The winner will represent his school at Vanderbilt University's elocution contest in May in Nashville. the gold medal prizes the event.
Frank J. Cheney declares his firm will pay one hundred dollars for every case of catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. The document, sworn December 6, 1886, describes the medicine as a internal remedy that acts on blood and mucous surfaces. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation and notes distribution by F J Cheney & Co in Toledo.
Columbia notes the home of John Voss in Pt. Worth Texas has burned down with only $500 insurance. Voss, once a Columbia merchant and former Chief of Police, moved to Texas years ago and has prospered there.
A local testimonial claims kidney pills cured disordered kidneys and backache after weeks off work. The ad cites George D Whitesell of Lewisburg Tennessee and promotes Doan's Kidney Pills from Foster Milburn Co New York as the United States sole agents, price one cent.
Mr. George E. Seidel, president of the Seidel Buggy Co. of Richmond Inn, visits Columbia and tours local farms. He praises Maury County as the finest farming country and notes the beauty of the C M A grounds, considering sending his son to the school next year.
Nashville Tenn April 23 The Tennessean notes admirers of the late Senator Edward Carmack and art lovers will prize a plaster bas relief by PF Boardman of Columbia. The bust centers the tablet with the pledge to the South, likenesses from memory, limited casts for friends, and Boardman’s stature as a Yale trained sculptor.
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