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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1909
Page
3
In a countryside hunt, Sylvia and Siward share a tense day of sporting choice and moral tension. The pair watch a woodcock, discuss life and death, and navigate hints of romance amid social expectations and competing suitors at a Page estate gathering.
A reader reports years of kidney trouble with severe pain and frequent urination. After taking Foley's Kidney Remedy the pain gradually subsided and urine returned to normal, leading to a cheerful endorsement of the remedy.
An advertorial claim promotes Foley's Honey and Tar in the yellow package GHOAL CORN as a quick cure for grippe coughs that may develop into pneumonia overnight, stating the medicine heals sore and inflamed lungs and averts dangerous conditions.
A daring safe robbery reported by jeweler Oscar C. Jackle of 888 Third avenues shows burglars entering through a cellar after removing steel bars and sawing an opening in the floor. They pried the safe, removed a combination dial, and left no evidence, taking about 5 000 in cash and 20 000 in jewelry while avoiding upstairs tenants.
In Birmingham Ensley a trench collapse at the blast furnace plant trapped ten workers as gas flooded the hole. Two bodies were recovered and eight more were believed buried while several others, including foremen, were injured. Most victims were foreigners during the night shift as walls and earth slid into the eight foot deep trench.
In Birmingham, Lilian Moore was arrested by Deputy Sheriff Louis R. Deas for forging a bond to free her husband, George Moore, who had been bound over on grand larceny. The woman used forged signatures of J. P. Jeffcoat M. B. Dewberry and M. C. Loeb on a blank bond, all in the same handwriting, leading to her confinement on forgery charges.
An advertisement asserts thousands of obstinate pile cases have been cured by Doan's Ointment and notes a price of 60 cents at any drug store.
Philadelphia report says George Hempl a Stanford University philology professor has found a key to inscriptions on ancient Htruacian tombs and columns. Italian historian Guglielmo Ferrero visiting expresses muted reaction amid uncertain expectations about the potential significance of the find.
Charles P Taft of Cincinnati brother of Freak dent Taft is named chief stockholder of a firm planning a railroad from Arkansas Pass to Eagle Pass along the upper Rio Grande. The proposed line would run about 260 miles and pass through Taft’s 110000 and 200000 acre ranches near Aransas Pass, twelve miles west of here.
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