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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1909
Page
12
Advertises a sale on ladies and misses suits and coats with numerous price points. Lists colors and styles including long coats, raincoats, broadcloths, and furs, with deep discounts and limited sizes. Also notes white bear skin coats in small sizes at low prices.
A durably terse sale notice advertising deep price cuts on men and boys suits and overcoats. Highlights include broken lots from former prices to 3.75 dollars, corduroy suits at 10 value now 75 cents, and tailored suits and overcoats reduced to 3.98 to 11.50 dollars. Limited stock, sizes vary.
Entire stock of ladies misses and childrens hats and all millinery marked down. Hurry to buy a hat at wonderfully low prices during the pre Christmas sale.
Bargain listing of household goods and apparel with low prices. Cotton and woolen blankets, lace curtains, towels, counterpanes, ribbed underwear, union suits, men's underwear, soft fleeced garments, and shawls offered at reduced rates. Contains multiple items priced per pair or per garment with varied discounts.
Authorized notices list numerous candidates for Circuit Judge Attorney General and local offices in Maury County with primary election dates in 1910. Names include Frank Boyd Bruce Turner Thos Perbles Norace Frierson Jr James A Sanders Tomlinson Looney W. C. Gordon Mo W Adkison W S McFall Jas D Cathey Will Whitaker Claude Godwin S D Glenn Ed Hight Hardin W Thomas Dan Oakley A J Nichols Sam Hayes Newt Due Taylor Harry Borum plus a Doan's Ointment health ad.
Virginia Wardlaw a gray haired spinster was arraigned in East Orange New Jersey charged with murdering her young niece Mrs Ocey W N Sneed whose body was found in a bath tub in a deserted house. Coroner says death by drowning in under a foot of water but police note mysterious aspects including a $20000 life policy and $16000 Brooklyn property and months of alleged helplessness. Wardlaw held without bail amid surveillance of two other women.
Nashville dispatch recounts Tennessee interest in the New York mystery involving Miss Virginia Wardlaw, former Soule College head, and her sister Mrs. Sneed. Wardlaw led Soule College in Murfreesboro for thirteen years, with a reticent clan in Murfreesboro and East Orange ties. Wardlaw's son Wardlaw died by his own hand, while Albert wandered westward.
Maury County expects a bumper wheat crop with record acreage across districts. Prices at harvest look strong as farmers report offers of one dollar per bushel for next June. Weather in October and November favored planting and growth.
A compilation of deeds and transfers listing numerous buyers and sellers, including amounts from $50 to $39,500, across districts 2 through 16 and wards 1 through 8. Notable entries include Henry C. Linck to Hoover and Mason for 290 acres, $39,500, and Spring Hill Land & Improvement Co. parcels in the 3rd and 9th districts.
Five foreign governments bar or limit Red Cross stamps on mail with Britain Orange River Colony Southern Rhodesia and the Transvaal among those refusing to admit packages bearing the stamps Germany allows stamps if placed on back or face of the letter Port Portugal bulletin notes items will be refused and returned to sender as needed Stamps sale totals 8,010,000 through today reflecting strong demand this year.
Nashville juror John Matthews sought to be excused from service in the night rider case citing eczema on his body. Defense keen to remove him as past statements by the juror are noted.
New York City tallies against Consolidated Gas for arrears on gas and electricity, likely the largest lighting bill on record at over 11 million dollars. The city has not paid since 1903 amid a legal dispute, while the company owes franchise taxes exceeding 10 million, leaving a net balance in favor of the utility.
Washington December 1. Despite the state guaranty law for state banks in Oklahoma many applications are pending at the Treasury for organization as national banks in the New State. One for the Germania National Bank of Panos City was approved today. It may cost about 35,000 dollars.
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