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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1900
Page
6
A local advertisement declares the farmer supporters of Maury and neighboring counties will be rewarded as a brick building showroom unveils a vast, low price sale. The dealer boasts new stock, best global goods, and impending fall stock with summer stock sacrificed to clear space. Prices are promised to speak for themselves.
Dated display lists wide cut prices on men and ladies shoes and hats, plus suits and pants. Notable deals include $5.00 men’s shoes for $3.45 and Julia Marlome ladies shoes marked down to $2.45. Hats advertise below cost and suits drop from 15.00–17.50 to about 10.85. Estimates detail pants at reduced rates from 1.00 to 3.45.
A literature and fashion page surveys garden party style with simple elegant gowns, puffed sleeves, and wide hats for outdoor affairs. It notes neckline and waist details, morning dresses with lace and embroidery, and previews autumn cloaks in silk and velvet trimmed with Chantilly lace.
The Mt Pleasant Southern Railway Co. filed a condemnation petition in the Circuit Court seeking a right of way through lands owned by Mrs M A Howard in the 9th district.
The shirt waist man gains social acceptance as fashionable traders and bankers adopt loose trousers and soft shirts. He frequents Wall and Broad streets and Fifth Avenue clubs, stabilizing a trend that spread from stock exchange halls to roof gardens. Establishments once wary now welcome the shirt waist style as the hot season progresses.
Southern Railway offers double daily Nashville departures to eastern cities. The 9:30 p.m. train reaches Washington by 6:42 a.m. and continues to Baltimore Philadelphia New York with a Pullman sleeping car Nashville to New York. Another train leaves 3:30 p.m. to Washington arriving 3:10 p.m. in Washington and 6:23 a.m. in New York after Salisbury transfer.
Grimeon's cranky gardener neighbor asks Grimson to tend the widow's weeds. The ensuing question about Grimeon's actions leads to his marriage to the widow within four months.
J C Hickawo sold the farm four miles west of LyNxxilse where the Bluff rings distillery stood to Mrs Ros Fey of Waco. The distillery had been purchased by T D Curtis of Pulaski on Tuesday for 398 and a total of 4400 dollars. It is generally believed the distillery will not reopen in the same locality.
W A Hines of Manchester Indiana recounts a near fatal illness after measles led to lung trouble and consumption. He suffered hemorrhages and constant coughing until using Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption. He claims a full recovery and notes trials at W P B World ridges drug store.
Jinks challenges Dante's Inferno as inaccurate in a witty exchange with Winks. The two quip about hellish conditions and shade conversations, as reprinted in New York Weekly.
An old advertising blurb touts No-To-Bac as a magic solution to quit tobacco easily. It promises vigor and strength, claims to cure all drugging symptoms, and offers a free booklet from Sterling Remedy Co in Chicago New York.
White K L Hawkins wed Miss Ele Husbands and color line couple Jackon Irvine to Adjine Granbery noted as issued licenses in local notices.
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