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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1913
Page
2
Governor Hooper will not include the force bill in the special legislative call. He aims to limit the session to essential local measures and necessary appropriations, hoping to finish within twenty days in September.
Thirty thousand voices praise Doan's Kidney Pills for back ache and kidney troubles. Mrs J P Baugh of Cemetery Ave Columbia Tenn Testifies of dizziness nervous spells and head and back pain relief after using Doan's pills. Purchased at Adams Martins Drug Store now HB Adams Drug Store. Remember the name Dean's and take no other. Price ten cents. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sale agents for the United States.
An elderly advertisement urges mothers to treat children for intestinal worms with Kickapoo Worm Killer. It promises symptom relief and improved appetite, claiming benefits for digestion and growth, and directs purchase through druggists or by mail for 5 cents from the Kickapoo Indian Medicine Co. in Philadelphia and Saint Louis.
Dayton Tenn. man Wilam Davis, 37, wounded by a shooter who was after a mule he stole from in Argo. Davis escaped Ashville jail, pursued to Argo, hospitalized in county jail hospital with bird shot in serious condition. A $100 reward offered. Also contains an early 20th century advertisement for Hall’s Catarrh Cure and a claim about Hal l’s remedies.
The Edison talking pictures returned to the Grand on Saturday night drawing a standing room crowd. Many who missed Friday’s opening joined Saturday’s audience eager for another full house at the earliest opportunity.
Calomel replacement touts Liv-Ver-Lax as a natural remedy that cleanses the system and relieves constipation while keeping users on their feet. Claims safety for children and suggests it will replace calomel in homes, with bottles priced at 50 cents and one dollar. Sold by Stephenson Brothers.
Ed Bailey et al representing Luzluka Brown and others proceed to sell a 10 acre tract in the 2nd Civil District Maury County. Sale set for September 15, 1913 at noon at the Columbia Court House with 12 and 18 month credit terms, $50 cash, no redemption, notes with security, auction details per decree from August Special Term 1913.
The Maury County Court notes a non resident of Tennessee Laula Hil due to Chicago address, requiring her appearance by September 1913 or risk a default. notice to be published four weeks in the Columbia Weekly Herald. Executor R L Hays announces claims against Love Webb estate to be presented within thirty days. advertisement includes Dr Hobson’s Eczema Ointment and product ads.
Col N D Frazer of Nashville, former Columba Military Academy faculty member, will join the Fitzgerald and Clark school faculty at Tullahoma next year. He is a nephew of former Senator James B Frasier and was popular here.
The charred remains of Herman McAbee, a child who died in a Thursday fire that destroyed his parents’ home at Cemetery Avenue and Embargo Street, were prepared for burial by Oaks & Nichols and taken to Nashville for burial at Mt. Olivet. Doctors confirmed the body after long doubt, and the family plans burial in Mt. Olivet Cemetery on Saturday. The boy, who had been near the pencil factory earlier, is believed to have slept in his room when the fire started.
Maj J C French, named Memphis postmaster about two months ago after a lengthy fight, died at his breakfast table from a stroke. He was 72 and a Confederate veteran, with 25 years in the money order division. He left a wife, son Thornton P French, and daughter Mrs E B Mercer.
Nashville Tenn Aug 26 A Smyrna farm wife and her niece Miss Lucy Stanford were murdered while the husband Wa Cook attended church. The bodies were found on the back porch and bedroom, with no clue to the killer. Excitement runs high and a lynching may follow if the murderer is captured.
Columbus Aug 22 Convicts serving terms in the Ohio penitentiary or their dependents will be given compensation for their labor on and after Sept 1. The pay ranges from 1 to cents per hour with gradings based on character, industrial efficiency and good conduct. The law providing this was passed at a recent session of the legislature.
The concrete walk on the east side of Garden Street from Fifth to Sixth has been completed. Removal of the old walk and work near the trees will start soon, and the yards of the adjacent fences in that area will be improved.
The Alabama railroad commission ordered the North and South Alabama Railroad to implement a 2 1/2 cent passenger rate, effective September 14, following a hearing two weeks prior. The decision mirrors recent rate actions against Louisville and Nashville, Western Railway of Alabama, and Central of Georgia.
Senator Bristow of Kansas during the tariff debate accuses Department of Justice officers of aiding violators of the Sherman Act to evade court judgments. He cites a union Pacific precedent and questions how monopolies can be broken when the Supreme Court ruled against them, as he did in the Union Pacific case.
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