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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1916
Page
8
The Christmas turkey market opened at eighteen cents with a weak outlook for December. Prominent dealers report three‑fourths of Thanksgiving turkeys are in freezers awaiting Christmas demand, signaling low prices and discouragement for local farmers despite record shipments earlier.
Special to The Herald from Mare Island Cal on November 29 Marines at the recruit depot will celebrate Thanksgiving with a home like dinner including turkey with oyster dressing and mince pie. The menu lists tomato soup lobster salad roast turkey cranberry sauce giblet gravy olives celery cold ham potatoes fruit cake cigars and coffee among other treats for the sea soldiers serving at Mare Island and abroad.
Fire of unknown origin razed the residence of Mag Perkins, a colored resident, on Curtis Road east of Columbia Tuesday afternoon at 6:30. The house valued at 500 dollars, furniture at 200, total loss about 700 with no insurance. No one saved any property.
Wheat rallied to four and a half cents gains on the St. Louis December contract closing at 1.72 while local wagons offer only 1.60 for No.1. Flour and all grades fell twenty five cents, heat patent at 9.75 and second at 9.25. Louisville hogs weakened ten cents with heavies at 9.95. Cattle market remained dull.
Cattle and hogs were dull and lower in Louisville markets with hogs down 10 cents across grades. Cattle receipts about 200 head and hogs 3,000 head. prices include heavies 9.95, mediums 9.65, nets 8.95, pigs 7.65 to 8.15, roughs 9.00 and down. Produce prices list eggs 37 cents, butter 26, turkeys 18, chickens 13–14, hens 12, geese 10. Meat and lard values given for wholesalers to farmers. flour and grain quotes from local mills.
Sam Witherspoon aged eighty died Sunday at Leatherwood in Hickman County and was buried Tuesday in Santa Fe. A Maury County resident until last year he moved to Leatherwood recently. Born at Knob Creek he served in the Confederate Army four years and was a respected citizen and Methodist Church member. He never sought office but served four terms as district tax assessor at Santa Fe and married three times. Surviving are three daughters Minnie and Mattie Witherspoon and Mrs George Pigg. The funeral was held at Santa Fe with interment in Santa Fe Cemetery.
R B Morgan weds Hattie Lou Gray. Frank Caileady to Helen Bostick. Ralph Dillehay to Myrtle Dooley.
A dialogue fragment cites a cipher added to a tale about profits from a war bride venture. One side alleges the other inflated earnings from five hundred to five thousand, prompting a call for further inquiry in The Herald.
The Nicholson School lists honor roll pupils for November. Fifth Grade: Rosie Lee Derryherry and Ollie Lee Jackson. Eighth Grade: Orline Rittenberry.
A humorous exchange notes a farmer claiming a butternut tree supplies butter, prompting a puzzled reaction about the source of dairy fat. The dialogue hints at curiosity about agricultural quirks and traditional farming lore.
A spectator in a courtroom quips about juror bias while witnesses joke over blondes and brunettes. The exchange hints at the jury being picked to try a pretty woman for an unspecified charge, as actors in the scene furiously debate motives.
A brisk exchange over bread prices ends with Mr. Dumdum leaving a shop after a baker asserts prices will rise to ten cents per loaf before winter. The dialog hints at rising costs and a tense buyer seller standoff.
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