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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1913
Page
5
A holiday message extends best wishes to friends and patrons of Columbia and Maury County. The note pledges continued effort to please customers in all business undertakings and to live up to a strong past record. It closes with a courteous sign off.
The article explains zone based parcel post rates with zones from one to eight, naming cities like Nashville Columbus Louisville St Louis Cincinnati Chicago Philadelphia and New York. It notes that rural carriers will receive a rates book and that after a new law shortening clerk hours afternoon mail must be deposited 30 minutes earlier. It ends with a list of rates to follow.
Dr. T. A. Allen sells his Columbia dental practice and moves to Chattanooga. Dr. H. N. Shepherd of Gainesboro buys the office and will assume control at once with his family expected soon. Shepherd, Vanderbilt 1906 graduate, brings a reputation as a skilled, respected dentist to the community. Campbell assumes control of the Daimwood Photographic Studio, coming from Florence Alabama with twenty years of studio experience. He plans to move his family to Mayes Place in May.
One thousand paving blocks in separate stamped parcels were prepared for shipment from Gary Indiana as the first parcels post mail leaving the city. Two large drays carried the blocks into the post office to have stamps cancelled. The blocks were samples from a manufacturer who preferred parcels post for cheaper transport.
The statement asserts one hundred and fifty bushels per acre as the standard yield and notes H. Stribling will be satisfied with no less corn yield, reflecting a demand or benchmark for crop performance.
James H. Stribling, a banker and farmer, travels from Florida with his party and predicts raising corn yields to 150 bushels per acre in Lawrence county. He aims to obtain county funding to match federal support for experimental farming and to exhibit seed corn for the South Carolina expo. The party plans more demonstration farms in 1913.
An advertisement for Dr. King's Life Pills claims to empower women by overcoming weakness and bad blood with new vigor and pleasing features. The copy touts easy safe cures and suggests these pills help win a husband by enhancing charm and vitality.
Fifty years after the Murfreesboro battle locals recall participants including Dale who was wounded by shell fragments. He was brought home in a wagon, survived, was later captured, remained a prisoner until war's end, and lived about ten years ago.
State senators don the stripes as lawyers and former Lawrence County prosecutor Andrews seeks seat in the senate. The piece notes recent remarks on police staffing and questions the need for additional officers amid concerns over profanity and city drugstore treatments.
Fragmentary text from an Indiana notice lists an address and scattered phrases about pills and family, with garbled words and no clear event or date. The legible elements include W. R. Fox at 195 W. Washington St, Noblesville, Ind, and disjointed references to time, pain, and remedies.
Washington January 1 Speaker Champ Clark lashed calamity howlers predicting panic under the incoming Democratic administration. He hailed 1912 as highly prosperous and forecast continued growth through 1918, urging unity and work to sustain prosperity.
Report recalls a man named Brindiay in Yellow Creek who appeared dead after illness and funeral arrangements began. He suddenly breathed and coughed, sat up with confusion as watchers alerted his family in a startling revival.
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