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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1900
Page
1
The Herald announces a Phaston contest offering a prize of a bran cow for the candidate with the most votes by May day 1001. Readers are urged to become candidates or urge friends to join, with emphasis on starting early and mobilizing local supporters.
The Relief Committee let bids to Beaver & Worley to build two room two story homes for residents whose houses were destroyed in the November tornado. Each brick chimney dwelling costs 180.42 dollars, aimed at aiding poor owners, mostly African American, with fully swept homes.
Janie Lyman, a 45 year old Black resident, died last week at a Fy Martin home in Macedonia, raising the death count to twenty nine. Rescue and recovery teams sifted through the debris the day after the tornado, but many bodies remained unrecovered and the scene was chaotic.
Additional contributions pour in to the relief fund aiding storm victims. Cash donations arrive from Nasbrilie and nearby communities, boosting funds to support emergency relief and recovery efforts for those impacted by the disaster.
In the 10th District additional listings, R. A. Spellman of Philadelphia receives 3000 cash and Maj. John E. Greer of Springfield is noted with 1200, both collected by GW Crow for the Colored Citizens 7th district. The entry closes with a code BATS 82.
Chairman Fleming of the Relief Committee told Herald reporters that collections reach 4678.63 dollars, with hundreds still unpaid. Expenditures for furniture, food, clothing, burials, and replacing thirteen houses total about 5212 dollars, leaving many damaged homes needy. Committee plans no further calls until subscriptions are collected. warn residents not to send aid seekers unless funds exist.
At a Thursday meeting the Board of Mayor and Aldermen planned a new ordinance to require the L and N Railroad to place gates at South High, South Garden, and South Main crossings and remove depots obstructions. The Light Company service was also to be reviewed with legal advice sought. The session also covered fire pay changes, school funding, and committee leadership for the new year.
A collection of testimonials praises Peruna for kidney and bladder relief from patients including John H. Corlies of Council Bluffs Iowa and D L Jaycox of Oakland California. Letter writers describe long battles with kidney trouble, improvements after fourteen weeks to four months of use, and urge others to try the remedy along with Dr Hartman’s offered free book Summer Cancer.
In Nasuvenix on December 8 the court sustained the will of E. W. Cale directing a major distribution. The ruling recognizes several grandchildren as beneficiaries with shares in stocks bonds and real estate across Alabama Tennessee and Texas.
In Knoxville a tobacco firm dealer defied the state law by selling cigarettes. Judge J W Rheed released the man on habeas corpus after ruling the act invalid for never being signed by the speaker of the lower house. State Secretary's certificate showed the bill was unsigned and the case proceeds toward the Supreme Court on its merits.
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