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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1916
Page
8
A local furniture department advertises a wide range of bedroom suites in Mahogany Circassion Walnut Gum and Quartered Oak with prices from 35 dollars each. Iron and Brass Beds Library Tables Desks Chifforches Rockers and more in old Ivory and Oak finishes. Dining room sets and both Ladies and Mens styles are offered with emphasis on immediate selection and savings.
Nashville based F M Whitney former head mechanic for Chester Motor Co has accepted a post with Watson Bros garage to lead the repair department. Whitney comes highly recommended for the new role. Prices for Foley Kidney Pills remain unchanged despite cost rises in food and clothing.
The sole state official who refused to collect an annual tax. The decision by Clerk Lipscomb on the auto fee is sustained, marking a milestone in state administrative actions.
Dr Robert Jay of the U S Department makes a strong address here urging sanitation as the key to preventing cholera on farms. His talk emphasizes practical measures, public health vigilance, and cooperative action by farmers and authorities.
Judge Rutherford of Nashville Court rules county clerks are entitled to a single fee for automobile registration, not $1 per car annually. Arch Lipscomb praised for upholding the ruling while others face the confusion of annual fees. A related suit questioned annual clerk fees, and the decision confirms the one-time charge remains. Also Dr. Robert Jay discusses hog cholera sanitation and contagious abortion at Maury County Farmers Society meeting, praising cleanliness and vaccination while noting limited turnout.
The Woman's Missionary Society of the First Methodist Church completed a week long campaign, reaching 100 full members and 33 honorary male members. Starting from 48, the total more than doubled with plans for further joiners, and officials expect the church to lead the Tennessee conference in percentage gain this year.
An old fashioned physic promotes Foley Cathartic Tablets from Smiler Drug Co as a safe quick remedy for indigestion sour stomach constipation and other symptoms from fermenting undigested food in the stomach and bowels.
For dyspepsia, our national ailment, use Burdock Blood Bitters. Recom mended for strengthening digestion, purifying the blood. At all drug stores. $1.00 a bottle.
A household remedy in America for years Dr Thomas Eclectic Oil offers relief for cuts sprains burns and scalds. Available in 250 and 500 sizes at drug stores.
The speaker jokes that fish supposedly make brains and questions the value of the vendors wares. He muses on the disparity between claimed truths about fish and the price of what merchants sell, pondering motives and meaning.
An elderly narrator recalls early schooling and hardship living seven blocks from a Carnegie library, noting the absence of an automobile. The brief reminiscence captures modest means and perseverance in a bygone era.
A dated advertisement promotes GETS-IT, a corn remedy sold by Lawrence & Co of Chicago and recommended in Columbia by Stephenson Bros and Wolf Dridge Co. The copy touts quick relief, ease of use, and streetwise language aimed at busy readers.
John J. Wilson, manager of Columbia Canning, reports unusually bright prospects for 1917 with extensive contracts already signed. The company will grow tomatoes on 60 acres and contract growers like Horace Rainey Jr to plant 100 acres at $10 per ton before Sept 1, with $8 per ton after. The plant plans to can sweet potatoes, pumpkins, and hominy, and aims to sign up about 500 acres for 1917 amid high grower earnings per acre.
An advertisement describes cold symptoms with fever and chills and offers Dr Bell's Pine Tar Honey as a remedy. It claims the pine balsam loosens phlegm and clears bronchial tubes while honey soothes the throat and antiseptic qualities kill germs. Croup and whooping cough also relieved.
The Mothers' Club of Woodrow School will host a supper at the school house on Tuesday night November 25. An engaging program of music and recitals by the school music and expression class will be presented. Dean's Regulars are advertised as pleasant and gentle with no after effects, 2c at all drug stores.
Sunday school rehearsed Christmas music for the tree event to be held Saturday afternoon December 28. Committees were appointed for decoration music purchasing program and tree setup with Mrs Hine Mrs Biddle Mrs Orr and others named for specific tasks.
Billie Mayberry of Go writes that two of her children suffered a croup attack and after using Foley's Honey and Tar at bedtime, the cough subsided and the next morning the croup was gone. The ad from Smiler Drug Co invites readers to try the remedy.
W. T. Smith and his son Clarence of Columbia return from a three weeks hunt in Limestone Falls and Kaufman counties Texas. They report unusually good quail shooting and the hunt for the big Jack rabbit was the greatest ever. Smith brought back ears measuring fourteen inches from tip to tip.
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