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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1903
Page
8
An ad style notice promises a full range of home decor items including lamps mirrors salad bowls serving dishes and cramb trays with emphasis on attractive finishing and broad selection to astonish readers.
A string of holiday requests from rural Route No. 8 and nearby areas. Children name gifts from dolls and toy pianos to skating wares, trains, fire engines, ranges of candy and fruit, urging Santa to bring both simple toys and cars, dolls, outfits, and books. Several writers sign as young girls and boys with routes and names.
In St Louis County, Senator B L Mathews faces legal bribery charges tied to a HID scheme. Judge Graves moved the matter to March 26 1904 after defense protests and per a pretrial agreement. Assistant A G Jeffries noted the trials of the Farris and Amth cases should precede. Farris set for March, Amth for March 23.
Secretary Root asked retired Brigadier General Merriam to confirm quotes from an Denver interview asserting the president’s Wood appointment created unpopularity in the army and threatened its cohesion. The inquiry requests Merriam’s explanation of the remarks and context.
Miss Julia Holcombe a dressmaker in Columbia testimonials relief from itching and dry tetter on hands and face after using Doan's Ointment. She notes rapid initial relief and long lasting cure, purchased at Adams & Martin's drug store for 50 cents, urging readers to remember the name.
A cautionary tale recounts a self styled truth speaking moralist in Chicago who scorns Santa Claus. The tale follows his descent from certitude to nightmare as a dream of Santa exposes him to his own lies and a nightmarish wake when his room is emptied by a burglary leaving him in fear and humiliated.
Dunlap the famed bank burglar known as the gentlemanly desperado was released on parole to the Pinkerton agency in Chicago after serving about two years for a Wat feka robbery. Parole board members Snively Russell and Judge Lemon were cited. Dunlap left Joliet for Chicago unaccompanied. In a separate item four Italians were killed and two injured by a dynamite blast at Cramer while laborers worked on track laying for the Buffalo Rochester Pittsburgh line.
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