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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1906
Page
9
Chicago August 24 a large crowd gathered at the Milwaukee Avenue Institution vaults to collect a 20 percent payout for 6000 of 21000 depositors. Police struggled as 25000 residents pressed the bank and many spoke Bohemian Polish Norwegian and Italian while the receiver arranged payments for today and the next days.
Washington Aug. Bh One of the few remaining tracts of Indian land near Lawton in Comanche Caddo and Kiowa counties Oklahoma totaling about 500000 acres is to be opened for settlement. The plan combines settlement and sale with lands priced at not less than 500 per acre. Purchasers must be actual settlers with payments due in installments. Some lands may fetch 25 to 30 per acre while others attract bidders. Leases are respected with lessees given first option to buy.
Officer Pack of Mt Pleasant narrowly survived a cutting attack by Dempsey Lawrence while investigating shots in a house. Pack fired, wounded Lawrence in the leg, then chased and overpowered him despite serious wounds. Lawrence jailed. Pack lauded for service.
In New Haven on August 24 Prof William H Brewer Yale emeritus spoke at an American Veterinary Medical Association banquet advocating horse flesh as food. He argued horses pose fewer disease risks than cattle and that prejudice and ignorance keep them from being eaten.
On September 2 in Mt Pleasant Tenn the State Y M C A will conduct a district program. Morning sermons target young men, afternoon meeting at Presbyterian Church led by W S Prost of Columbia, evening mass meeting at Presbyterian Church with Frost and Ernest Lovan as speakers. Tickets required. tickets available at local stores and offices.
In Mt Pleasant Tennessee on August 24 the annual stock show and races scheduled for August 20 were postponed to October 26. Great preparations are planned for one of the town’s old-time stock shows, with Mt Pleasant aiming to attract large crowds and notable entries.
All delegates to the Republican Congressional Convention meeting at Lawrenceburg on September 1 will receive a round trip fare of one and one third Tate. John W. Jackson, Chairman.
St Paul Aug 4 Millions will be held in reserve for life insurance policy holders and costs lowered as a bill approved by Insurance Commissioners seeks annual apportionment and accounting of surpluses. The measure aims to strip excess funds from deferred dividend contracts by making officers accountable for large state surplus pools across major companies.
The Swift Packing Company in Chicago offers a $50 wedding present to each employee on marriage. The move, justified as improving reliability and performance, also aims to motivate clerks to marry. The piece asserts marriage fosters responsibility, better work, and civic virtue, though notes commercial motives and warns against marrying just for cash.
Local office invites calls to supply needs with offerings for readers. Officials urge contact to fulfill requests and ensure timely service.
Clerk and Master issues non resident notice in the cause Bula Smith vs William Charles Smith. Defendant alleged resident of Tennessee. appearance urged within three days of the next term. Hearing set for October first Monday next. copy order to be published four weeks in the Columbia Herald.
Rev Thomas P Gregory argues that Puritans shaped New England while Dutch brought republican ideas to America. He credits Holland with inspiring democracy, free schools, separation of church and state, and press freedom, noting Dutch influence on early American institutions and independence. Includes ad copy and a brief jab about politics and a patent medicine.
London Car Chicago Record-Herald reports King Alfonso uses his state visit to spotlight sherry wine. He brings fine sherry to dinners in Scotland and at Coney. Four of eight wines served are sherries, drawing compliments from King Raward on the quality unseen for years.
Prof Reu ben Andrea, a well known figure in Winnipeg and Portage la Prairie, returned with a handful of rough diamonds he claims to have found within the province. Local jewelers examined the stones and deemed them to be of the frit water variety.
The Democratic Executive Committee of Maury County will meet at the Court House in Columbia in the Circuit Court Room at 11 o clock a m Monday September 1906 to fix time place and manner of holding convention to nominate candidates for the State Senate and House of Representatives J H Kannon Chairman James A Smiser Secretary
Creditors are notified to file claims against G W Nichols assignment to FLFP Alexander before September fifteenth or be forever barred. Assignee H F Alexander signs the notice.
In Lawrenceburg the cantaloupe season saw 1,500 acres under cultivation with the best growers earning about $2 per crate as shipments reached markets nationwide. Prices averaged $41.60 per crate at times while some crates sold for over $1,000, reflecting strong demand despite a few crop losses from rain and inexperience in growing and packing practices.
In a brisk note the writer imagines Wilhelm’s potential trip to St Louis. The piece hints the German city Ulm could be a model for pretty crafts and goods, while casually speculating on homesickness and the appeal of American hospitality in Germany.
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