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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1908
Page
6
In a coastal home, Sylvia and Mrs. Ferrall clash over a family past and heredity as Sylvia faces an intended marriage. A moonlit walk with Mr. Siward turns intimate and tense, with mounting danger of passion and social expectations shaping their choices.
A collection of childhood pleas to Santa from Cullooka Tennessee offering requests for toys such as air guns, red wagons, dolls, tricycles, toy pistols, drums, and dolls, plus foods like oranges bananas candy and other treats. Names include Curtis Parrish Herbert London Levi London Bessie London Ladie Garner Gibert London Aileen Marshall Myrtle Thomas Eunice Clara May Gray and Donald.
A jumble of handwritten Christmas requests from Emma Lee Johnson Grace Dorris Elmie Flowers and others in Spring Hill Kedron Carter's Creek Kedron. Each letter asks for toys candy and household items and sometimes a rifle or air gun. Names addresses and relatives appear with playful wishes and Christmas cheer.
An old ad promotes a one year package of The Tennessean and the Weekly Herald for 3 dollars cash, excluding Sundays. It markets the deal as less than cost to grow paid up in advance subscribers and invites readers to subscribe immediately.
Prof. William Griffith a Scranton mining expert testifies in the government suit against anthracite railroads. He estimates 1905 anthracite shipments total 2,229,201,660 tons and says the supply would be exhausted in 1992 at current consumption.
The body of Chief of Police Biggy, drowned when the police launch patrol sank off Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay on November 30, was recovered today by a freight-boat crew. It was found floating off Goat Island and turned over to harbor police.
An advertisement from Alcorn GEO promotes Foley’s Orino Laxative as a remedy for chronic constipation and sluggish bowels. It claims to cure chron constipation and stimulate the liver to regulate bowel action naturally, reducing the need for continuous purgatives.
A EB. Davis grocer of Sulphur Springs Texas testifies that Regulats relieved and strengthened his bowels, ending chronic constipation and restoring regularity.
London notes the opening of the first wireless post office by Postmaster General Buxton at Holt Head on the Devonshire coast. The station will primarily serve ships at sea, enabling maritime communication.
A bomb explosion near the Coliseum in Chicago caused two buildings to collapse and sparked widespread panic. Police suspect the blast aimed to disrupt a coming ball, with theories ranging from an attack on the Coliseum to a gambers’ war. Authorities search the wreckage as crowds evacuate and nearby churches report the commotion.
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