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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1909
Page
3
Grace Ferrall and Sylvia Siward navigate emotional tension as Howard Quarri er confronts entangling affections. Sylvia resists, Grace counsels restraint, while gossip threads through their social circle about marriages, inherited fortunes, and political ties as a coastal summer wanes.
In Duquoin Illinois a gas explosion at Joseph Leiter colliery Zelgon Ayork caused twenty five deaths with a trolley pole igniting gas from an electric motor. A lone Italian youth survived. Mr Leiter led the initial relief party as authorities expect more recoveries tonight.
Herald announces firm name change to T N Figueras Son and T N Piguers Jr and admission to partnership effective February first. A stock-reduction sale runs from January 15 to February 1. Announcement appears on Herald page three.
Weeklong program at the First Methodist church starting Sunday January 24 features sermons by Bishops E E Hoes and Hons, talks by Hon W B Stubbs, Miss Mabel Head, and Dr W R Lambuth, plus stereopticon lectures and a personal testimony about Foley's Kidney Remedy by Geho S. Alcorn.
Federal Judge Evans granted Cumberland Telephone and Telegraph Company a temporary restraining order against Owensboro to block a rate ordinance and the removal of its poles and wires from the streets. The suit challenges rate reductions and alleges the company operates without a franchise. A hearing to make the injunction permanent is set for January 19.
Gen Stoessel Rear Admiral Nebogatoff and other high ranking officers in the fortress of St Peter and St Paul have applied for pardon or commutation. No action yet. Stoessel sentenced for surrender of Port Arthur. commuted to ten years. Nebogatoff serving life for surrender in the Sea of Japan.
Special to The Herald from Nashville Tennessee reports at the Methodist ministers weekly meeting Rev B J Haynes accused liquor interests of enticing beautiful women to Nashville to influence legislative action on prohibition. He claimed to know of approaches to senators and representatives and cited at least one representative who was tempted.
The Maury National Bank stockholders met and reelected the old board, with R. C. Church as president and W. P. Ridley as vice president. The bank reported deposits of 502 243.26 and praised its year’s business. The Farmers & Merchants Bank postponed its meeting due to weather. Phoenix National Bank also held its annual meeting with the old board reelected and officers to be chosen next week. The 1908 year was noted as highly successful with deposits rising toward 340,000.
An advertiser claims Foley's Honey and Tar rapidly cures grippe coughs that could turn to pneumonia overnight. The product is described as healing sore lungs and preventing dangerous conditions. The ad urges to take only the yellow package. Geo S Aly Corn.
In Birmingham Jim Powell, a Black man, is arrested as a feared criminal. He faces seven definite murders and multiple robberies across Alabama. He reportedly confessed to killing two Black men nicknamed Fat Boy and Bill Sherman, with other alleged victims including Jim Crow the grocer, R A Cummings, Tony Alwell, John Jones and a White farmer near Kelton.
Jacob Schiff of Kuhn Loeb & Co fiscal agent for the Union Pacific testifies in the government suit to dissolve the Harriman roads merger. He is a codefendant and is questioned by Clarence Beverance about the 1908 reorganization plan under which the Union Pacific acquired the property and began operations.
Washington reports that United States phosphate rock reserves may last about fifty years at current production. Export of western and foreign deposits is seen as wasteful, with proposed measures to keep key lands under government title and restrict exports. The reserve lands on public domains would be developed for American farms, with protection against export.
Austin January 11 statewide prohibition tops agenda for the upcoming Legislature. Democratic convention platform urges submitting the issue to a popular vote. Efforts will press to repeal or amend taxation laws from the last session. The state insurance law also faces scrutiny.
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