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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1900
Page
7
A local retailer promotes a January stock taking sale with reduced prices on broadcloth, serges, fancy fabrics, and ladies wear. Highlights include yard discounts on Brilliantine Bergesworth fabrics, Cheviot Serges, and jackets, capes, and shoes with many items marked for next Saturday. Also notes on local obituaries and health items appear in the same notice.
Our correspondents report on residents visiting relatives, church sermons, and local movements. Mrs Florence Holt and children return from Franklin, Myrtle Harris helps her brother in Pulaski, Lola Farcis visits family in Franklin, and Mr Willie Murphy and Mr Brooks travel to new homes. An invalid remedy advertisement claims South American Nervine cures stomach weakness and indigestion with quick relief.
Sunday services drew a good crowd as Eld. Jarno Harrie preached at the place. He will preach again on the second Sunday in February. Various visitors and locals were noted including Mixx Meda Richardaou returning from a two week visit to relatives near Borderilian.
An old styled ad promotes a beauty product claiming to whiten teeth and improve complexion. It touts ease of use and assures satisfaction, targeting general readers with standard eighteenth editorial tone.
The notice mourns the death of Mrs Salle Hardison on Jan 1 after a brief illness and notes funeral services led by Rev. Felix Sowell at the family home. It mentions a preacher from Columbia and upcoming services, with prayers for comfort for her husband and five children. An advertisement touts De King’s New Life Pills for appetite and health.
A sermon at Burks Chappel Sunray is noted with the Vieneant Mt. congregation submitting letters of concern as they build a new church. Rev KE B Serface and Rev FS Mitchell are mentioned as preaching plans, with appointments and ministerial work noted in nearby Searcy Arkansas. Miss Macgie Sue Garrett and teacher applications for spring term are listed, along with a funeral at Pleasant Hill Cemetery conducted by Rev J M.
A Piedmont resident Cornelius Ackersnap receives a fortune after saving Mrs. Mortarity and her three daughters on the Hudson River steamboat Rip Van Winkle twenty years ago. Mortarity’s will left part of her estate to Ackerman, who was contacted by a lawyer from Albany confirming the legacy. The tale ties to a larger note on political anarchy and other items in the issue.
The column records the death of Edward Russell Hall on January 18 after three weeks of suffering, noting his seven years in the community, church membership, and funeral conduct by local ministers. It also mentions the death of Mrs. Mary E. Cannon in Belfast, Marshall County, and other local notices including visits, moves, and social events in the Columbia region.
A terse remark on beauty and extremes notes that in the trade of footwear and fashion, some women appear paler than usual, a claim echoed by shoe dealers.
A fragment from a Manchester newspaper presents a wartime poem praising fallen soldiers. It laments the brutal cannonade and honors the heroes who faced fire, their courage celebrated by England as stars on a diadem. The piece muses on the last words spoken and the hope carried by winds. Raw and reverent, it frames death as ultimate equalizer and tribute to national merit.
A Chicago Record item notes the Senate set a maximum seat price and hints at possible removal of Senator Clack for commenting too freely. The terse report frames the issue as a political controversy over price controls and accountability.
A letter outlines dire prospects for Ladysmith and Mafeking as British losses grow. It argues England must cut Boer food supply and release troops from the Transvaal to reinforce Boer forces, warning of a deteriorating British position and worsening outlook for British relief attempts amid the South Africa conflict.
The State Public School Officers Association closed its session today electing officers including president from county names and executive committee members. The report lists Frank Gann of Franklin, Miss Jeannette M. of a county, Cloud Bell of Seattle, and E. L. Moenden of Humboldt among others.
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