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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1900
Page
6
A collage of verses on writing to friends and pursuing harmony, followed by musings on June foundations, then fashion notes on pineapple silk gowns with delicate pink satin linings and lace. It also includes literary quotes and social commentary on style and proprieties, with fashion details of sleeves and trims.
The Chattanooga News critiques the Philippine trade table showing imports from China and the United Kingdom, and exports to the United Kingdom and United States. It argues the U S share of trade at $768,507 reflects a costly policy and poor morals.
A garbled mix of quotes and stray phrases from Dryden Emerson and others appears with distorted text. It presents fragmented maxims on resolve, faithfulness, and courage, interspersed with nonsensical insertions and unclear attributions, lacking coherent narrative or context.
Quick and Convenient Schedules East via Southern Railway offer double daily service from Nashville to Washington and New York with connections at Chattanooga and Salisbury. The first train leaves Nashville at 9 30 p m arriving Washington 6 42 a m, with dining and sleeping cars on the route. The second departs 3 30 p m with through service to New York, offering Pullman sleeping cars and day coaches.
The piece recounts the modest beginnings of eleven U.S. presidents including Andrew Jackson James Polk James Buchanan Abraham Lincoln Andrew Johnson Ulysses S Grant James Garfield Grover Cleveland and William McKinley. It notes their rural or humble upbringings and early work before later prominence. An unrelated ad promotes a nervous system tonic sold in Columbia Tennessee promising cures with dubious claims.
A verse tribute to the heavenly city from Christian Burke in the Argosy contrasts eternal beauty with earthly faith. The second item advertises relief from kidney and bladder disease in six hours using New Great South American Kidney Cure sold by A B Rais, Druggist.
A reader notes guidance on using Otto's Cure for coughs sore throat and lung ailments. The text promotes the product as a reliable remedy with claims of "super wonderful cures" though no verifiable evidence is provided.
A quotation from Dr. Van Dyke celebrates life as chances to love work and play while aiming for virtue. It urges avoiding falsehood and meanness, fearing cowardice, and valuing kindness, admiration, and friendship, with daily reflection on Christ and time spent with body and spirit outdoors.
An old advertisement claims catarrh causes deafness via a blocked Eustachian tube and offers Hall's Catarrh Cure as a remedy. It promises one hundred dollars for any case not cured, claiming the product can restore normal hearing and invites readers to request free circulars.
Col. John G Ballentine begins a $40 000 new home on the site of last year’s burned residence in Punaski Giles County It is scheduled to be completed by November and will be the largest and most handsome private dwelling in the county.
The Memphis Scimitar reports the Virginia and Carolina Chemical Company will build a Memphis phosphate plant costing about 100000 dollars. Richmond manager Mr. Ei Borden superintendent Mr N A Chamberlain and Mr G Hequembourg are in Memphis to finalize plans. Land at the Nashville Chattanooga and St Louis rail way junction has been bought and a South Memphis tract is under consideration for reacquisition.
The passage argues that marriage should be a genuine union rather than a money driven contract. It contends pride harms comfort, a man must keep his word, and wealth should not define worth or fate. It cautions that treating marriage as payment invites greed and moral compromise.
A dialogue confronts work and worship as the strong man argues against Sunday labor citing weekly sacred days from various nations. He asserts global citizenship compels him to observe all seven Sabbaths, challenging modern work norms.
Judge Geo H Morgan, a renowned Tennessee figure and Mason, died at his Cookeville home from throat cancer aged by last night. He served as Speaker of the Tennessee Senate in 1881 and led the Grand Lodge of Tennessee as Grand Master in 1895. He was Past Grand Master and Knight Templar, long active in politics and state affairs.
An eagle measuring six feet one inch with a knife edge wing span was killed by T Smith a farmer in SminovGan Wis on July 25. The child involved was not seriously injured.
The Cincinnati market notes show grain and stock quotes with prices for flour, spring and winter wheat, corn and oats, plus a range of live stock values from hogs to lambs and veal. Chicago market lines list No 2 red wheat and various corn and oats figures with daily shifts and bid prices.
The Columbia Market Report notes corrections by Frierson Embry and McKennon Nichols on the latest prices and produce listings for Jountry Produce. The update clarifies quantities and labeled items for traders and merchants.
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