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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1902
Page
7
Promote Alcorns Chicken Cholera Cure to prevent and cure diseases in chickens and turkeys. Alcorns Hog Cholera Cure combined with Germaline claims to prevent and cure diseases in hogs and to rid them of vermin. those raising hogs should inquire locally.
Fannie Wilson dies at 70 plus years in Taylorsville. She was a Methodist member and buried beside her husband D. Wilen who died months earlier. She leaves three children. Local notes report fever illnesses and community visits. Cathey's church held a meeting with twelve additions. Isom school to open next Monday with Professor White.
A historical note describes malaria as a forerunner of chill and details a remedy by A. B. Raine. It cites a prompt liver-stimulating action to drive the malarial germ from the blood, purify the blood, and tone up the liver.
Stiversville and Carter's Creek visitors travel to Nashville and nearby towns. Families, illnesses, and a horse accident are reported, including typhoid fever for Frank Compton and a broken arm for Marshall Dugger. School news lists Miss Maggie Lee in Waco and Miss Meda Richardson near Bodenham.
Local notice claims Ballird's Snow Lint Mont cured a wife of five years paralysis in her arm. The seller, A B Rains, offers the remedy at 5c and $1.00 per bottle, with testimonials of success on old sores frost bite and skin eruptions.
Williamsport notes state Rev J B Green led service last Sunday Mrs Emma Holcomb and children stay with Mr and Mrs W T Harris names Jones Kinzer and Otey Richie visited the Port last Saturday Lynda Lusk returns to Mt Pleasant after visiting cousins Misses Ella and Pearl Johnson Frances Meacham returns to Pinewood Katheryne Sowell visited relatives Second Santa Fe Turkey Creek baseball game score 19 to 17 praised goram team and players Mrs Barrie returns from Primm’s improved Mr Jones Bunch visited friends Dr Chalton visits Cathey’s Creek Mrs W T Harris returns from Columbia Collins returns from Louisville and other local items.
Community notes recount church attendance by Murray Armstrong and Walker Flewing, visits between Crom residents Mr and Mrs Edger Hill and Horace Johnson family, and Henry Mayberry’s trip to Kentucky due to Cummins illness. Miss Jennings from Nashville boards at Moore Hotel and Minnie Harris returns home from visiting Dave Trousdale.
An advertisement from Montgomery Paxico Wayne County Missouri claims White's Cream Vermituxe cured intestinal worms in young girls. It describes removing four worms after two doses and twelve inches long single worm, asserting the medicine also strengthens health and wards off sickness.
An OCR fragment presents a poem about measured love and lasting affection, urging moderation and steadfastness. It includes lines on loving little yet long enduring, with references to youth, truth, and constancy, followed by garbled text and an advertisement for a mystic cure claiming rapid relief from rheumatism and neuralgia.
York correspondent reports an albino crow with pink beak and pink eyes among a flock near Devil's Den at Gettysburg. Guides note the bird is a familiar battlefield presence, visiting yearly with black crows acting as sentinels. Local ornithologists have failed to capture it while theories speculate on omens and spirits of fallen soldiers.
Chicago dispatches report messengers quit and a new tactic used to hide messages in stockings fails. Striker boys harass female couriers outside offices, forcing resignations as they face improper conduct and risk, with young workers describing humiliating procedures and fear of delivering messages.
Public Policy cites a Philadelphia to Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling that any poisonous ingredient in food violates the statute regardless of health impact. The piece argues about 20 percent of stock containing toxins, urging vigorous measures and noting Clifton flour offered by Bransford Mills Owensboro Kentucky via Chaitin Bros.
Gen Tyree Bell, a distinguished officer, was found unconscious in the Southern Pacific waiting room in New Orleans on Aug 21. He was taken to the sanitarium in a dying condition with no money or ticket, and had recently departed Gallatin, Tennessee, en route to Visalia, where his son resides.
A cloudburst in the mountains south of Florence causes severe flooding across the Arkansas region. Rivers rise as water sweeps down hills and streets become torrents. Canon City and Rockvale report flooded streets and significant damage to fruit crops. Local reports note heavy rainfall and widespread property impact.
Rev Bam Small of Georgia collapsed during a temperance lecture in Brattleboro Vermont while campaigning for Percival Clement independent governor candidate and Local Option License League. The audience thought it acted for effect but he grew incoherent and staggered, Col Miles aiding his removal from the stage.
In San Francisco on August 28, 250 Chinese bound for the Korea crew arrived aboard the Gaelic. Collector Strateon ordered they be detained off the Gaelic and kept from entering the detention shed pending final Treasury and immigration decisions.
Physican and Druggists at Rocky Hill Station Ky report Dr BG Singhey requested Herbine. They ordered three dozen in December and repeated the order three times. They express satisfaction and welcome the salesman's visit as Dr G BoSingley endorses Herbine.
California's ostrich farming grows as a paying industry with an investment of about $250,000 and annual feather output near $100,000. Los Angeles residents visit South Pasadena farms to watch workers pluck feathers using careful methods to protect the birds and their plumage.
Arthur B. Chamberlain, in Los Angeles, is jailed awaiting Chief Kobler of Cleveland. He is to be returned to Ohio under requisition papers to face embezzlement charges for about $1000 from a Cleveland wholesale machinery supplier where he held a responsible post.
The article traces the apron’s rise and fall in women’s wardrobes over forty years, noting black silk aprons symbolized elegance and home life. It links the apron’s decline to changing attitudes, education, and shifting sentiments as new generations embrace independence.
A dispatch from Cape Haitian reports Gen Nord and the provisional government’s war minister were defeated and forced to evacuate Limbe as fighting continues. Aux Cayes and Aguins residents reportedly rose against the government, while Gen Simon marches toward Miragoune. in New York Lizzie Hull 26 and Joseph Campbell die in a Bellevue Hospital quarrel. four shots fired.
Roproved Act of Lynel Charlotte. N.C. Aug. 28 The cor oner jury in the case of Tom Jones the negro who resaulted and fatally injured Mel Smith and who was lynched has approved the net of the lynchers Portmasters Convention Milwaukee Aug 2 The fifth and none convention of the National Association of Postmasters is in session here with bout 100 postmasters in attendance
An old advertisement notes Owen Mixture as a baby companion from birth until teething, claimed to be sold by druggists. The line suggests a tonic or remedy framed as a friend from infancy, a relic of bygone patent medicine style and marketing.
Mr. Sarah Mackey of Porterfield in this county suffers from repeated sneezing fits that reached 600 sneezes in one hour. Doctors remain unable to alleviate the condition, and her health continues to deteriorate despite prior episodes of 50 to 200 sneezes per hour.
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