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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1916
Page
3
A catalog style note describes bed room suites in Ivory Mahogany Circassion Walnut Gum and Quartered Oak. Dining room suites offered from low to high prices with a large stock in many styles. Iron and Brass beds library tables desks chifforobes rockers all priced 1.50 to 35.00. Do not delay buy now while selection and service are available.
In a highly contested race Col. John J Brown defeats Parks by narrow margin in a county justice of the peace election. Victor Carried Two Boxes while other candidates won pluralities in a well known county political contest.
Col John S Brown tops Guy Parks and Thomas Lunn in the Third district race for County Court. Brown carried Spring Hill and Rally Hill while Parks won Neapolis and Lunn Kedron. Final counts show Brown 129, Parks 109, Lunn 60 across four boxes with nearly 300 votes cast. Brown will seat at the January term and has a history of public service and county investigations.
A jingle style offer invites readers to mail five cents with name and address to Foley & Co in Chicago for a trial package of Foley remedies including Honey and Tar Compound Kidney Pills and Cathartics Tablets. Ad includes playful call to action and disclaimer.
Dowsett farm of 400 acres at Arkland Station along the Middle Tennessee Railroad offers good dwellings and barns with ample water. Located near Franklin Tennessee. Address Otey Walker, Franklin, Tenn. Telephone 131. decl5-2t.
Local businessmen of Mt Pleasant presented Dr Charles Y Clarke with a golf headed cane engraved to honor his efforts securing the Jackson Military Highway. Clarke, vice president of the Jackson Highway Association, helped achieve the route’s location, earning widespread praise.
In Maury County Tennessee the Chancery Court at Columbia will auction two tracts of land on Monday January 8 1917 at noon. First tract 46 acres east of the old Metal road and bounded by Henry Pickard. second tract 635 acres bounded by Ingram heirs Wheeler M E Wheeler Tennessee Cooperage and J d ray. Cash only sale free from redemption per decree of October 1916. Dec 8 1916 Mor a B Fariss C & M deputy clerk.
Large transfers boost activity as Hoover and Mason record 141 acres for 35000 in the Sixth district at over 250 per acre. Bear Creek Phosphate & Mining sells land to Armour Fertilizer for 17000 in the Fourth district. Total transfers near 100000 this month versus 140000 last December.
Billie Mayberry of Eckert Colorado recalls two of her children suffering a croup attack three weeks ago. She gave Foley's Honey and Tar before bedtime and the next morning the cough and all signs of croup had disappeared. Advertisement by Esmiler Drug Co.
W A Jacobs of Carter's Creek received the top price for sixty one turkeys, earning a check for 242 dollars. The price neared four dollars per bird as birds averaged about twenty pounds each and were among the season’s choicest at the local market.
A vintage advertisement fragment promotes Foley’s Honey and Yar Compound as a quick throat and bronchial soothe aid. It claims relief for coughs, chest tightness, croup, whooping cough, and bronchial issues without upsetting a sensitive stomach, and lists Smiler Drug Co as a seller.
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