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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1900
Page
3
A move warns that removing two hundred bushels of potatoes extracts eighty pounds of actual potash from the soil. If this quantity is not returned, the next crop will decline materially. They mention Amponithin and Seciboves as crop aids, with references to German Kali Works in New York.
Local notices from Cart ers Cheek and Columbia detail visits from Minnie Lou Davis and others, Christmas events at Lasting Hope church, travel to Nashville, and social gatherings. A bulletin notes Jattie Howard Roberts’s diphtheria and a December 28 Beech Grove preaching. An advertisement extols Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription aiding women through change of life.
Dec 1 notes announce preacher Jey Warner will lead Goshen church Sunday at 11 AM and hold Alexander services at 3 PM. He hopes all members attend. Local social items mention Emma Kinzer visiting, a newborn to the Montgomerys, Dee Jarratt visiting Theta, Mrs Wea Cook visiting Fe, and well wishes for editor and family for Christmas and New Year.
Seneca newspaper editor M. Higgins reports his years long pile suffering cured by Bucklen's Arnica Salve after two boxes. He calls it the surest pile cure on earth and the best liniment, with a $0.25 price promise and local druggist W. P. Wooldridge selling it.
Rainy Hine notes county news and health, praising Friday Horace readings. Burlington Bros. buy and seed hogs, farmers plowing and preparing land for another crop. Reynold returns from Nashville. Ollin Chan and Sallie Johnson wed at WW o'clock with Brother Grag officiating.
The page records a mixed set of items: a couple quietly wed with a supper afterward at Tom Warren's house, a bad accident at Tom Glenn's where a child climbed and fell fracturing teeth and injuring the jaw, and a sharp crackdown on whiskey dealers by Deputy Duncan around Hally Hol. It also includes medical ads for Dr King’s Life Pills and a brief historical aside about colors buried with military honors from 1763.
The Austrian rifle weighs 9 pounds 11 ounces, heavier than rifles from Britain France Denmark and Russia at about 9 pounds 6 ounces. Spain uses 14 ounces lighter, while Turkey Belgium at 8 pounds 10 ounces, Germany 8 pounds 8 ounces, and Italy 8 pounds 2 ounces. Italian bullets weigh 162 grains versus 232 by France 227 by Germany 215 by Britain and 214 by Russia.
Max C Munzer and Sadie Miller, a St Louis couple, wed secretly and planned a lavish engagement reception with gifts. When the date leaked, the affair was postponed and gifts were returned. The rest of the text promotes catarrh cures and a New York restaurant turning into vaudeville with daytime shows for lunch crowds.
A period ad touts Men’s Women’s Miva and Boys’ and Children's footwear at Reasonable prices. It claims wide widths and shapes to fit any foot and invites customers to try SNES shoes at a Show Store offering stylish footwear cheaper than ever. It features a list of names and playful phrases from the era.
A long row of handwritten child friendly notes from Columbia Tennessee dated December 1900 ask Santa Claus for dolls, doll furniture, toy wagons, rocking horses, guns, candy, oranges, books, and various small comforts. Each letter names the child and street address, with many siblings and family requests mixed in.
The passage suggests Sir Charles Dilke is about three in an odd phrase. It mentions his recreation of sculling at Shepperton and rowing with famous men, likening his energy to a much younger athlete. It also references Ravot's Insane Memorial and describes Egypt's bat ons hospital for the insane rising from 200 to 500 patients, deriding it as an abomination.
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