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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1900
Page
3
Fragments describe farming advice on potash use to boost crop profits and avoid scrubby yields. Local names and anecdotes reference Franklin visitors, family moves, and parish sermons. A health ad touts using Bitter Root remedies for digestion and vitality, following a fall festival tone.
Our correspondents report on a November wedding at Mr Levine Poot and Miss Altmyer, with Rev W R Peebles officiating. They plan to reside with the groom’s father. News covers school closures, community aid for Columbia Me storm victims, weather-related church absences, local society meetings, teachers changing posts, and residents traveling or ill. Also mentions Galveston floods and a fire at a colored church, plus health advice promoting Dr Pierce’s remedies.
Leiper's Creek notes a local teacher's return, a school closure due to bad weather, and the death of Mr Thor Lockhart at his home in Broadview. He leaves a wife and four children and was described as a good man and kind husband. Broadview reports Miss Fanny Galloway and Mr Floyd Ilbreath visiting.
Darks Mitt vows to write for the Haat ALD on a quiet day as nine weather and topica fill ink eloly. The beslth of the community is good except Mrs Nesbitt who is sick. Oakdale school closed Friday under Miss Ethel Gardner. Mr Pitzwerald and wife visited Ms Giardiner’s family. John Walters sold his Theta hack to John Dodson and began driving last week. Dodson runs the hack along the pike from Carter's Creek to your city. the night of November 12th resulted in the waters washing the vehicle away. Mr HL Roan and wife visit Mrs Hammonds in Columbia. LP Chandler left for Kentucky. Hayes Paxemore of Mowd visited Mr Dag Oweley and wife. XEKBRS.
Local bulletin highlights Dr Kings New Discovery giving away millions of trial bottles for coughs colds and throat diseases. Notices report sermons at Gidwin Chapel and Knob Creek, ill health and visits, wedding rumors, and a Civil War era arnica salve cure advertised by Woldridge.
A St. Louis Post-Dispatch note outlines Spanish terms for physical infirmities and quirks. It explains how blind, one-eyed, pug-nosed, cross-eyed, lame, one-armed, humpbacked, bald, and short balls are described with specific adjectives such as ciego tuerto chato bisajo cojoly forobado calve and pelon, illustrating language differences from English.
At Reasonable Prices Our lines of Men Women Kids and Children's Shoes cover nearly every width and shape. Visit our shop to find proper fit and foot comfort. We aim to help every customer with foot assessment and provide steady, lower prices than ever before.
The Columbia post office will relocate on January 1 as the lease ends. The Eagle Store will move to the current post office building, and officials eye the Masonic Temple corner as the new site. Newsboys shout tomorrow’s papers as Democrats and Republicans nominate vice presidents, stirring curiosity among onlookers. Icelandic farmers emigrate to Canada after Britain’s slaughter order impacts sheep and cattle.
The Savannah News reports large chalk deposits near Macon in Twiggs County are being worked. Excavated like stone, the pure white chalk is used mainly in paper manufacture and is described as the only deposit in the country now being exploited.
A framed wall mural in a Forty third Street bachelor apartment displays seven poker hands reproduced from actual cards used in a winter uptown hotel game. Cards are on green cloth with chip motifs and players’ signatures. includes notes from The London Morning Post and a Scottish prison chaplain anecdote.
A grim account from Monterey reports 88 year old Thomas J. Whittaker murdered by his grandson Jack Whittaker. The killer shot the victim twice and was captured near Monterey late last night by authorities. The motive cited is a dispute over letting the elder man grant a mule to the killer for a trip.
Turkey signs with Cramp Shipbuilding Company of Philadelphia for a cruiser at 500000 pounds. The deal includes 24000 pounds indemnity to the United States for losses during the Athens massacre involving Captain M Chester and the battleship Kentucky. Officials and officers are expected to arrive and stay several days.
Rev John al Hartis, pastor of Cumberland Presbyterian Church in RWISBURG, refused a call to the First Cumberland Presbyterian Church of Knoxville after discussing the matter with his congregation. He cited that the new field would be useful but not more so than his current charge. Also promotes Dr Kines New Life Pill as a health booster. Sold by W P Woldridge, druggist.
An Englishman long resident in Hackensack New Jersey left without papers to claim a $2000 inheritance in England. He sailed, sent nearly all to his wife, kept only enough for a return trip, was denied by authorities in New York, and sent back to England where he must again request the funds.
A fragmented ad describes the Twice-a-Week Republic newspaper offered at $1 a year. It promises telegraphed news, domestic and foreign affairs, marine and commercial matters, and lifestyle content for men and women, blending fact and fiction with book notes and society features.
A Palmyra correspondent notes mock caravan attacks are customary to elicit rescue money from European travelers. Brain workers live about sixty eight years eight months on average from a 19th century study of 530 eminent people. Willis W. Cooper becomes secretary to promote Methodist revivals aiming to convert two million by 1901. A Chinese tipple from rice in a stone jar can intoxicate a party. small doses used with water are common.
Albert Cartwright reports in the Chicago Record that in Bloemfontein a typhoid outbreak caused 4 000 cane of typhoid with 1 700 in hospital. Forty deaths occurred that day and the daily death average stood at eighteen.
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