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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1917
Page
6
An old advertisement offers Hall's Catarrh Cure for internal use and claims it cleanses the blood from mucous surfaces. It promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation and lists pricing and availability from druggists. National Bank of Commerce Toledo referenced in the chaotic copy.
A Florida reader, T. C. Webster of Frui gsland Park, thanks the paper for daily news from home. He encloses a check for another year dated December 28, 1916, noting the importance of daily issues despite being far away.
Attorney General Horace Frierson reports a 25 to 30 percent drop in indictments in Maury Giles Lawrence and Wayne counties since he took office in 1910. Offenses shifted toward bootlegging pistol packing gaming and petit larceny with murder in the first degree producing no indictments for nearly a year.
An old advertisement promotes California Syrup of Figs as a safe laxative for children and a remedy for upset stomachs. It claims a teaspoonful eases constipation, cleanses liver and bowels, and brightens a sick child, warning against counterfeit syrups and directing to buy the genuine from the California Fig Syrup Company. Also notes inactivity as a winter constipation cause and endorses Dr. King’s New Life Pills for gentle relief with a morning bowel movement.
John A. Frazier died at his sister Mrs. W J Sellers home on Theta pike at six this morning. He was eighty seven, a longtime Godwin resident and respected farmer. Survived by children Will Sellers Charlie M Frazier B Frazier Forgey Frazier all of Godwin and Jno Frazier of Columbia. Funeral Saturday at 11 with Rev Jno Height and Rev Wait officiating at Godwin's Chapel. Oakes Nichols funeral directors in charge.
Special term of the Chancery Court will convene next Monday with Judge J. T. McKnight acting as special chancellor. Clerk and Master Mora B. Fariss will oversee sales of more than a dozen land tracts, aiming to confirm purchases at the term so buyers can gain possession early next year. Judge Bearden will preside at the special term.
Colds lead to various cough types including dry winter and bronic variants. Enos Halbert of Paoli Indiana writes of a persistent cough until Foley's Honey and Tar provided relief and eventual cure, as featured in a Smiler Drug Co advertisement.
The ad copy promotes Dr Bell's Pine Tar Honey as a timely cold remedy. It asserts the product stops sneezing loosens the pine baleam clears bronchial tubes and provides relief. The text mimics a vintage health ad with nonsensical phrases and garbled wording.
Community plans a Maury Celebration parade described as the great event of the year. organizers urge wide participation and expect broad local turnout with volunteers and participants already agreeing to join.
Dr Woldridge announces a Jackson Military Highway Celebration parade plan with over a thousand seven foot hickory saplings to be cut into two thousand canes for every man woman and child in the parade. Participants are urged to sign up with parade organizers for arrangements and cane distribution.
An advertisement touts Foley's Honey and Tar as a fast acting cough medicine for colds coughs and croup. It claims to heal inflamed throat membranes loosen phlegm ease breathing stop tickling in the throat and contains no opiates.
Nelse Cherry, manager of the Columbia Produce Co. ice plant at Dickson, Tenn., attends a company banquet for house managers. He had subscribed to The Daily Herald while in the city after being without it. Cherry previously ran the Columbia ice plant under Gamble and Chaffin Bros.
A seven year old in Adams Springfield Missouri recalls a severe kidney illness and relief from Fort Kidney Pills. The ad asserts the pills strengthen kidneys cleanse the blood and ease bladder troubles and is placed by Smiles Drug Co.
County Auto numbers for 1917 are available at the County Court Clerk A W Lipscomb's office. The clerk urges owners to call without delay to secure these numbers. No charge is made for re registering automobiles.
Reverend J T Brown sustained injuries when his buggy was thrown after his horse spooked by a train near Callookn on Saturday. He is expected to be confined for several days though the injuries are not serious.
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