Poor House Inmate Treatment Defended By Commissioner
County Poor House Commission Chairman Squire Bellamfant says inmates are well treated and provided for. He cites adequate food and planned water system upgrades, explains straw bedding for patients, and notes separate inmate accommodations while acknowledging limits due to funding and conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Squire W. E. Sellantant
County Poor House Commission
Geo. H. Mack
State Board of Charities
Squire Bellamfant
Ife
Jean
Mission Adorers Urge Women to Support Foreign Missions
A Thanksgiving address by Mrs. Ben Ply to the Women’s Foreign Missionary Society calls on readers to examine 1909 efforts and plan for 1910. It urges active giving and service, warns against indifference, and contrasts sending whisky and beer with sending Bibles and missionaries to distant lands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wome
Mie Aiomary Society
Ben Ply
Christ
America
Paul
China
India
Japan
Korea
Isles of the Sea
Jesus
Probing Faith and Duty in a Call to Rescue Humanity
A speaker urges devotion to God and the law of love, warning that earthly pleasures prove empty. The message encourages wholehearted worship and hints at joining a movement advancing humanitarian rescue efforts.
First Presbyterian elects new officers
At a board meeting of the First Presbyterian Church the deacons elected Joseph Borum treasurer succeeding the late John W. Frierson and Ernest McLe more secretary in place of Frierson. Frierson had held both offices for many years with credit.
Report Claims Brownsville Shooting Involves Colored Soldiers
A military court of inquiry in Washington concludes conclusive evidence that members of the Twenty-fifth Infantry fired upon Brownsville townsfolk during a night of shooting as comrades raced through the streets. The investigation notes bullet holes in three houses and bullets matching army design, with lines of fire traced to the fort barracks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Military Court of
Brownsville
Twenty-fifth Infantry
Congress
Roosevelt
Erie tugboat finds bodies from doomed ferry in Lake Erie
From Conneaut to Erie news describe the recovery of dead and missing crew members of the ferry Bes ner Marguette No 2 after it foundered in Lake Erie. The Peary reported ten men aboard and one man possibly jumped overboard. dozens of volunteers aided in salvage and identifications. Orillia notices also mention a separate case of two fishermen stranded near Palacios Texas with one dead and another near death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Erie
Quist
Omumaiore Perry
Besner & Marguette
Conneaut
Lake Sele
Commodore Peary
Lake Erie
Lake Erle
Texas
Palacios
Tex
Clark
B. B. Clark
Nebraska
Kidney Remedy Praise From Claremont Buyer
Mrs Joyce of Claremont New Hampshire writes that Foley's Kidney Remedy cured a severe kidney trouble last year and she highly recommends the medicine. For sale by all dealers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joyce
Claremont
N. H
Foley
Letters From Children To Santa Claus
A collection of handwritten holiday requests from children in Columbia and Nashville Tennessee. Mary Lowell and siblings ask for dolls, a wagon, a doll trunk, a story book, a kitchen set, a bicycle, candy and fruits, with notes to Santa Claus and references to their addresses and family members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Claus
Mary Z. Lowell
Santa
F. ©. Lowell, JR
Columbia, Tenn
Santa Clare
Lucille Cook
Columbia
Tenn
Harry O'Neill Cook
148Th St
Zack
Clariss M. Cook
Thrice-a-Week World Offer for Readers
The Thrice-a-Week World promotes its impartial news coverage and announces a single year offer. Subscribe to The Thrice-Week World and The Columbia Herald for one year at 1.66 dollars, saving compared with the combined regular rates of 2.00 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York World
Columbia Herald
Experts Demand More Cook Proof From Investigators
A garbled report cites Professor James H. Gore and others calling for stronger evidence in the Cook case. The text mentions witnesses including John Ro and Geo. H. Dunkle and notes examinations in New York, with debates over the desert ward and autronomea verdicts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Cook
Nile
James HH
Wiener
New York
Gore
Cat Backer
Ant Alee
Wueist
Geo. H. Dunkle
Wien
Ward
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Squire Bellanfant
the Herald
M. Sabel & Sons
Merket St
Louisville, KY
Maury National Bank
Board OF
R. C. Church
M. B Wheeler
W. P. Hidley
W. J. Howard
G. W. Killebrew
G.T. Hughes
J. P. Brownow
E. &. McLemore
Jac. W. Fry
RL. McKinsey
R. Church
W. P. Ridley
J. P. Brownlow
MO. W. Fry
A. Parker
The
Phoenix National Bank
J. L. Hutton
W.A. Dale
H. O. Fulton
W. J. Russell
Jo, L. Hutton
E. B. McLemore , L. McKinney
E. Jones
W. A. Dale
J. Lem Thomas
W. T. Frierson
W. P. Greenlaw
O. Webster
H. C, Fulton
D. F. Watkins
J, A. Oakes
H. H. Hill
POR
Sunderland Telephone & Telegraph
First Presbyterian
BORUM
Treasur
ER and
Ernest M’lemore
Thomas
Herald
Werner
Dickens
Scott
Thaderay
Poe
Mohlbach
Tissot
Shakespeare
Maieuvers
the Werner Company Department
Akron
Ohio
Police
Aig
Lngearch
Mara Lane
Sallie
Tenth Street
Fred Fitzgerald
Ora Armstrong
Jared
Garfield Farisa
Rufus Jackson
Lois
Lhim
Iterp
P. S
Aunt Williamse
Nashville
Baby
National Geo
Graphic Society
Bubseriby
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