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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1900
Page
3
Nashville dispatch reports four burglars robbed the Coffee County Bank in Manchester of $5000. They fled toward Tullahoma on a hand car, exchanged gunfire with officers, and one man was captured. the money was recovered. The captured man claimed Ohio origin and refused to give a name.
British authorities consider opening British Guiana as an immigration field to relieve congested Indian districts. The proposal hopes Hindoo communities will settle in the South American colony where climate and soil could offer a better living than they have known.
In Manchester Michigan George D Williams recounts how his wife, bedridden five years, regained independence after using two bottles of Electric Bitters. He praises the remedy for female complaints relieving nervousness melancholy headaches fainting and dizziness. Each bottle guaranteed and sold for 50 cents by W P Woldridge.
The San Francisco Call highlights a movement to balance sexes by promoting female emigration from Britain to Canada Australia and South Africa while reformers urge government action to entice men in the colonies to London. The piece also notes racing pedigrees and a catarrh cure among other brief items including Thomas Dutch Lord Brown University lineage and Newberry library genealogical work.
Samuel Smith M P has drawn attention with a motion about un Smithlike plays. He is tall and spare, slightly bent with age, and sports a long beard of yellowish gray and iron gray hair.
Washington officials announce a grand March 4 inaugural with heavy military display. John Joy Edson chairs a committee to decorate Capitol and White House with electric lights, seek large militia and naval participation, and fund a $50,000 spectacle including a pension office ball and a triumphant arch plan. The Twenty third Ohio volunteers and Dewey commanded ships will attend.
Movable targets of a new sort have been invented for use by the German army. These targets are propelled toward marksmen at full speed to simulate a cavalry charge, run on rollers with motive power supplied by horses started at a gallop after being attached to the target ropes. Soldiers learn to gauge distance and its variations with great accuracy.
Distressing kidney and bladder disease relieved in six hours by New Great South American Kidney Cure sold by A B Rains at Dragutat Columbia Tenn. Also mentions miniature painter Amalie Kussner now Mrs Coudert from Indiana and her praised talent and suave style reflecting her sitter’s temperament. Mrs Kussner was born in Indiana.
An advertisement touts Dr King's New Life Pills as a remedy for poor digestion and stomach and liver disorders. It claims to restore appetite, digestion, and a regular body habit, offering energy and health. Sold for 2 cents at W. P. Woldridge's drug store.
Washington reports a house committee plan to abolish the Missouri River Commission when Congress reconvenes January third. The decision, described as unanimous, follows testimony from members with Missouri river districts. The plan cites limited river navigation as the reason for ending the commission.
London dispatches report the British foreign office did not receive direct notice from He kin about a joint note signing but accepted semi official Berlin and Paris dispatches. Assurances from ambassadors in London indicated all ministers were instructed to sign, and the office says it has reason to believe the signing is accomplished, with telegrams to the frontiary possibly earlier.
In Columbia Pennsylvania on November 30 a notice orders Joseph Barker to appear next term of the common pleas court, or answer the Complainant Rosenthal Ex, or the matter will be confessed against him. A four week publication of the order is required in the column. A separate snippet discusses Sunday schools in Russia organized since 1863 by Mme Altchevaky.
A columnist notes modesty in dress varies by location. At Asbury Park the bathing salts limit exposure to the smallest leg, while at Larchmont the salts are so scant they are not worth discussing.
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