Christmas Edition Praised by Rival Papers in Columbia Herald
A flood of tributes from editors and papers across Tennessee and Mississippi lauds the Columbia Herald for its mammoth twenty four page Christmas edition. Reports highlight extensive advertising, office effort, and shared profits with employers, noting the issue was mailed to nearly every county home and praised by several newspapers for its enterprise and public spirit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbian Herald
Herald Star
Columbia
Palaski Citizen
Columbia, Tenn
Daily Herald
The
Herald
Times
Florence
Ala
Columbian
Columbia Herald
Mergenthaler
Lewisburg Tribune
Lander
Yazoo City
Miss
Sentinel
Maury County merchants report record Christmas trade in 1905
A Herald dispatch records robust Christmas shopping in Maury County with livestock and farm goods prices high and merchants like McKennon Anterson Foster and Maury Dry Goods Co. reporting their best season yet. Banks note heavy deposits and record check days as customers flock to town, aided by new Linotype machinery en route for shipment.
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Maury County
Colombia
Comiss
Bowiney
Herald
McKennon Anterson
T. N. Figuers
Maury Dry Goods Co
Mitchell-Ashley Hardware Co
Hogatsky & Bauman
PLC
Bbins & Ewing
Frank G. Cook
W. P. Woldridge
Miles
George
H. E. Horns & Bro
H. E
James Brox
All & Coe
Frank Swansburg
Herald Company
Numerous Business Moves Set for New Year in West End
The town plans a wave of relocations starting January. T L Canningham shifts from Trade Shelton to West Sixth street, Rev Spencer Tannell takes the vacated Canningham home, J E Gordon moves to Tunnel’s recently purchased place, J A Skelley relocates from the Atheneum to the Gordon house, and Calvert Bros move to the Capital Meat Market stand at South Main and Eighth. The Herald will occupy Calvert’s building for typographic and press rooms, with many offices to follow after the new coat house opens around January 12th. Shangman & Love relocate their taber shop to the County Clerk’s storehouse, while the Coluteia Herald moves editorial and business offices to the Shaneman & Love building on West Seventh. Metropolitan Life Insurance and Dr B A Timmons will move into Herald and Masonic building spaces, the Herald’s composing room becomes office space, and Phoenix National Bank expands by taking rear space from J A Ketchum’s building. Ketchum moves to Brown block, with Rail & Story renting front of Ketchum shop. Janes Andrews Jr will move to vacant storehouses next to Chaftin Bros.
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T._L. Canningham
Shelton Place
West End
Jack Oakes
West Sixth Street
Rev
Spencer Tannell
Mr. Canninghaw
J. E. Gordon
Mr. Tunnel
Mra. Ogilvie
J. A. Skelley
Atheneum
Gordon
Joe
Shangman & Love
Thomas
Coluteia Herald
Shaneman & Love
West Seventh Street
James Bros
Phoenis Bank
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co
Herald
BA Timmons
Masonic
Tasmanca Co
Phoenix National Bank
J. A Ketchum
Ketchum
Brown Block
Nore Room
Rail & Story
Bothell
Janes Andrews, Jr
Chaftin Bros
Fire Insurance Offer From UK Based Company
Insurance notice advertises absolute protection from loss by fire for houses, merchandise, ships and stock, with tenant property risks. Agent A Harrison promotes FIRE AND INSURANCE CO. in Brown Building, Noyid-Ddé 1moKuom 12.
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Heros
Tatura
Urance CO
A Harrison
Brown
Senator Garmage Engagements Across Cities This Week
Senator Carnack will give four speeches in East Tennessee next week with a stop in Chattanooga Wednesday. Additions and appointments list Cleveland January 7 Athens January 5 Madisonville January 6. Senator Carnack to lecture on “Conracor” at Morristown January 7. Schedule for January unclear as more engagements may be hired.
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Carnack
Tencenie
Coottanooga
Cleveland
Athens
Madisonville
Cor Cack
Conracor
Morristone
Wheat Stored at Sill Cost by Seeuk A B ASHTOW
A brief notice from Columbis Tennessee announces storage options for wheat. It names Seeuk A B ASHTOW and implies a fixed storage cost at a sill location. The wording is terse and fragmentary. The item reads as an old ad or public notice about grain storage.
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Seeuk
A.B. Ashtow
Jussil Columbis
Tennessee
YMCA Board Sets January 1 Meeting Agenda
At a recent Board of Directors meeting of the YMCA a plan was adopted to open the home on the evening of January 1. Committees were appointed for arrangements purchasing and publicity and the program will be announced later.
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Tha Y M . A
Tragic Christmas double homicide suicide near Birmingham
Elgie Cochran, a Southern Railway brakeman, killed Mrs. Alice Jobson, a glass widow, in Birmingham by shooting then wounded himself, dying later. Witnesses recall her saying he drank again and she faced him in the home area. Cochran, once from Columbia, had relatives in Columba and Cotton Factory town. Funeral details listed in Rose Hill records.
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Birmingham
Ala
Elgie Cochran
Alice Jobson
Cochran
Southern Railway
Johnson
Elgie
Bern
Young Cochran
Colamubia
Henry Cochran
J. B. Stages
George Tidwell
Florence Tidweil
Colamita
Weller
Rose Hill
Marriage licenses listed in Kentucky notices
A long list of marriage licenses is presented with names of grooms and brides including Pigg with Miss M W Garrett and John Crews with Miss Georgia Smith. The notices cover numerous couples and initials, with a closing ad for Dowk Blood Bitters claiming to cure a lazy liver.
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KT. Pigg
M. W. Garrett
John Crews
Georgia Smith
J. W. Flowers
Lou Beard
Charley Peyton
Rusia Lovell
John Brown
Julia Royal
Aren Ladd
Johnnie Gray
W. , Hartia
Masa Lauda Moore
James A Turner
Annie Maggie Austen
Ward Vernon
Lovika Brymer
J. Atkisson
May Bingham
Frank Teet
Sarah Allen
E.G Prince
Laura Potts
Maury Ploming
Ada Pollan
T Sory
Wass Fannie D Couper
Fletcher Lawsden
Addy Ahmore J. KB Chonn
Pannie Horn
K. M. Wilson
Duole Fx
T. K. Fitzgorald
Ailsa Tine Mai Sellers
Walter N. Bingham
Martha Ingram
Monro Anderson
Eda Roberts
James E Gatlin
Maggie Allen Kirkpatrick
Walter H. Knight
Mie
Eliz Speed
A. B. Morris
Lautin Hinton Ihn W
Gilliam
Gra Blotreats
Second Round Quarterly Meetings Across Multiple Towns
Schedule lists numerous second round quarterly meetings with towns including Prospect and Pleasant Hill in Pleasant Unil January dates, Elitan and Boe Spring in Hixton January, Delrove and Shiloh in Delrose January, banker Hill and Bankery Hill January, Richmod and Aspen Hill January, Bethel Cariuss late January, Trinity February, Hulaska Pulaski February, Chestnut Grove Pleasant Ridge February, Pingah Pisgah February, Olivet Pleasant Valley March, Hed Lynnville Taylor’s March, Moorenvile lk Ridge March, Diana Beren March, Collesky Burk’s Sar sland April, Bigbyvills Enterprise April, Mt. Pleasant April, South Columbia April, Volumin Columbia mid-April, signed by A. McFerkin.
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Prospect
Pleasant Hill
Pleasant Unil
Elitan
Boe Spring
Hixton
Delrove
Shiloh
Delrose
Banker Hill
Bankery Hill
Richmod
Aspen Hill
Bethel Cariuss
Trinity
Hulaska
Pulaski
Chestnut Grove
Pleasant Ridge
Pingah
Pisgah
Olivet
Pleasant Valley
Mar
Lynnville
Teylor
Moorenvile
Lk Ridge
Diana
Beren
Collesky and Burk's
Burk's
Sarsland
Bigbyvills
Enterprise
Mt. Pleasant
A Fine Showing and Bank Dividend Declared
The Maury National Bank directors met in their banking room and declared a six percent semiannual dividend for the past six months. They transferred 1,510 to surplus and undivided profits as the year proved the bank’s most prosperous, with net profits totaling 48,000. Prisoners arrested for drunkenness faced the Recorder, including Albert Dean who suffered facial injuries during the night while confined.
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Maury National Bank
Tris
Bro
Tata
Erwin Torsiay
Albert Dean
Pringner
Weunda
Employees Outing For J A Jonn Grovery Co
The J A Jonn Grovery Co entertained employees from Columbia and Fayetteville with a theater party outing to Nashville. Attendees included A Sloan Sloan Sion A Sloan I H Sloan Grant Courtught W B Losbridge J P Fleming C Gamble F Gamble Mina field A C Bowen I G Pickard. The party was joined in Nashville by F W Johnson and B D Haris.
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Jonn Grovery Co
Columbia
Fayetteville
Nashville
Eee
A. Sloan
D No
Sloan
Sion
I. H. Sloan
Grant Courtught
W. &. Losbridge
J. PL Fleming
C. Gamble
F. Gamble
JM. Minafield
Prisoners Charged After Attack at Harlan Mines
Deputy Gond seized two prisoners today Riley Crespy colored charged with assault with intent to murder in the first degree and linked to an earlier attack at Harlan's mines. Frank Fitzgerald also charged, details scarce as report ends abruptly.
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Gond
Riley Crespy
Accault
Harlan's Mines
Frank Fitzgerald
Fit Bewting
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Crediva
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Nashville American
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Tennnessee
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Cox Or Patterson
Judge Bond
HH. Clay Evans
Cox
Patterson
Birmons
Democratic Party
Térinessee
Dr. Thoms
Henry Barta
Will Wit
Senator Garmage
Xmas Shopping
Frank K. Cook
Y.M
Waren
Wats
T. DD
Reed Anupacturem OF
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Meas Ombretlan
Paragora Newhynly
Axprclalty
Deestr
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Boston
W TT. Rovinson
Royal Arcannor
Supreme Council
Gaynor
New York
Tee Connell
Satterfield and
Dodson
Gene Young
Lage Kono
W. BP. Woldridge Druggist
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ALUN
McKennen, Anderson & Poster
Clyalea
Valvet Cloake
Brantno
Etetiea
Shoe Department
Dorn
CFF
Gornwell
Valley Street
Saugerities
N.Y
Phoenix National Book of Columbia
Uke HO
Fulton, Custler
Satterfie & Bod
Sealder Troughy
Sarrel Bod & Hanson
W. J. Dale
Mgr
Columbia Mercantile Ware
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