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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1907
Page
12
An essay praising the decisive man who can carry a message to Garcia, contrasting efficient workers with the indecisive, and urging employers to prize capable, independent action. It laments incompetence in business, extols steady effort, and highlights the morale of those who deliver results in challenging conditions.
The world cries out for such a man who can carry a message to Garela. He is needed in every office, shop, store, and factory, highlighting a call for a capable envoy to deliver a crucial missive.
A New York Times report describes a cashier in an uptown restaurant who rejected old copper-nickel flying eagle and two-cent coins as unfamiliar and possibly fake. The manager finally accepted them, noting he bore no liability if they proved counterfeit. Flying eagle cents were minted in 1816 1857 and 1858 and two-cent pieces until 1878.
The fragments describe medieval cruelty in Verona Padua Vicenza and Brescia with a crusade against a monster named Ecelino. A wax hand on a chopping block and shrieks of a terrified woman punctuate a lurid tale of torture from long ago.
A special term of the circuit court set a record by granting a divorce to John J. L. McFarlin in one minute and thirty seconds. McFarlin, of Bleek Rock Arkansas, had married Annie Henderson of Metropolis Illinois seven years ago and sought divorce after a six month delay. The decree notes his Illinois wife refused to join him during six years resided in Memphis.
Francis H Taber argues athletics cross from pastime to business when victory becomes the measure of sport. He condemns professionals as mountebanks who ruin amateur ideals with salaries and crowds, warning that true sportsmanship dissolves under money and spectacle.
Reports from Walnut Valley describe a new pest called the elephant bug infesting corn. Farmer Bo Lamb notes rapid damage on an eighty acre field where ears swell and the insect’s long proboscis draws juice from the stalk, causing widespread loss.
A retrospective view notes big wrongdoers facing justice and moral reforms. It cites a Texas oil company fined 1.63 million, a Standard of people facing nearly 30 million in fines, and senatorial indictments, jail terms, or deaths to dodge imprisonment. It highlights rail rate reforms, public commissions, municipal ownership moves in New York and Chicago, and the rise of direct democracy and honesty. The piece praises voters, governors, and reform supporters while acknowledging ongoing resistance by entrenched interests. Memphis News Scimitar.
A serious Turkish raid crossed the Persian frontier near Urumiah destroying the village of Mavauch. Seventy people were killed, mostly women and children, and Turkish troops briefly drove back Persian forces before consolidating positions. A larger Persian cavalry force reportedly joined the invaders, threatening Urmia and surrounding areas.
A Chicago Record-Herald profile traces Kenesaw Mountain Landis born November 29 1866 in Sevenville Ohio through early work as a reporter and court stenographer in Indiana to study in Cincinnati and Chicago. It notes his rapid rise to law practice, service as Walter Gresham's secretary in Washington, and return to Chicago after Gresham's death with political involvement beginning as a sideline.
A Nebraska funeral tale unfolds with a stranger preacher inviting tributes, then an uncle shifts the talk to tariffs, illustrating the era’s tariff preoccupation amid a mix of satire and distant foreign scenes. The fragmentary text blends media jokes with a note on civilization and distant affairs.
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