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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1902
Page
3
Juip 7 reports regular church services and a prayer gathering. Several residents visit relatives in West Tennessee, Fayetteville, and Columbia. Mourning notes Mrs. Ross Pigg’s sudden death and health updates for Mr. Wildines and Mrs. Moore.
Charlee Jones of 119 North College Sireel Nashville reports quick relief from piles after using Brown's Oil Ointment. A Benson resident says a fourteen year ceasement cure occurred in three weeks. The ad notes handcome porcelain jars and a one dollar bottle with pre digested oil for sale by several local merchants.
The recent rain aided farmers in threshing wheat and improved yields beyond initial expectations. Mary Minor hosts her mother, while W J Minor reports near the city. Mrs Leon Adcock and children return after a week with Mrs W W Johnson. Bro Craig to lead Berea meeting the last Sunday in September. An ice cream supper at Oyanborough on the first Thursday night supports church funds. Mr and Mrs Jno Pollock of Napier visit homefolks and Pollock’s health improves. Dew Drop notes and plans for a Western trip.
Distressing kidney and bladder discomfort relieved in six hours by Now Great South American Kidney Cure. Claims rapid pain relief in bladder, kidneys, and back with immediate relief of water retention. Sold by A Bi Ruins, druggist. Fel7-ly
Lee Vaught colored wife of Cory Vanelot died Friday at her home on Cemetery Avenue at age 75. The couple lived 30 years in a Geirittle log house on Rometiry Avenue. He labored in lumber all his life and once went with Col. A. Moreely and Joe Irwin to North Carolina to work in walnut lumber. On the day of his wife’s death he retrieved a deer skin pouch containing 84 in gold earned in North Carolina and paid Oakey and Nichols for a coffin. The coins dated from 1820 to 1840 and were kept in his cabin for 30 years.
An advertisement touts a stomach ailment cure labeled South American Nervine Frac. It references a masterful remedy and mentions unnamed individuals and implied medical efficacy in a dated promotional tone.
Examinations for teaching certificates run Monday through Thursday at the Institute in Columbia. Nearly two hundred teachers attend as Prof. Lawrence and others deliver lectures on brain psychology and mystic topics. Certificates will be issued before faculty depart, and many seek state credentials with high interest in next year’s Institute.
An old advertisement claims pimples and muddy complexions signal a liver disorder. It promotes Herbine to cleanse bowels regulate the liver and improve beauty with a 50 cent price at Rains.
The Du Ponts run the powder works with a strict family rule led by a head who directs all danger related decisions. Youngsters are shielded from hazardous posts, and many relatives have died or escaped peril under this despotic system. The succession favors the capable, ensuring strong management across the business.
Botanic Blood Balm promises to cure eczema and itching humors through the blood. It claims to enrich the blood and heal skin sores, boils, and rashes, with a free trial treatment and a doctor in Atlanta for consultations.
Fragmentary OCR verse about a lover's song with lines adapting the Scottish lyric. Mentions themes of enduring love across distance and time, referencing a beloved, the sea, sun, and return. Contains garbled names and misread words from the source.
The tale presents five gifts Fame love riches pleasure and death offered to a youth. He selects pleasure and discovers hollow joy as each choice proves empty and vain. In the end death is denied and the youth laments wasted years, while a child’s innocence yields a harsh unseen fate.
A Kentucky mother recalls a night her brother’s baby nearly strangled by croup before Dr King’s New Discovery provided quick relief. She credits the remedy with curing a chronic bronchial condition and keeps it in the house for her children. Trial bottles free at W P Woldridge’s drug store.
The Courier-Journal reports Louisville Nashville Railroad will build general shops in South Louisville. The new mechanical engineer and two assistants to Chief Engineer Rev Montfort work on plans, aiming to control expenditures around 1,000.
A garbled health notice claims women suffer from nervousness and melancholy but cites a cure via Duk Electric Bitters. The fragment mentions long relief after seven years and urges readers to seek the remedy at a local drugstore.
In a New Haven Union opinion from 18xx, writers accuse prominent gentlemen at prewar Harmony dinners of backing the Republican party and causing Democratic disarray. They urge loyalty from past loyalists and criticize those who bolted Chicago 1860 style, arguing for modesty and responsibility.
An old advertisement urges readers to trade for a month to test quality and prices, promising the reader will become a wiser buyer and highlighting Bell Tul No. 11.
A collection of witty Chicago style opinions notes people and behavior. The verses joke about social norms, class, and vanity with light satire on work, wealth, travel, and aging.
In Shelbyville on July 4, leaders among rich residents discuss launching light draft steam boats to navigate Duck River from Three Forks Mills to its mouth. They will seek federal aid in the next Congress to cover costs, believing river improvements will greatly benefit Bedford County and the surrounding region. The Legislature already declared the river navigable along the stretch.
Four years of work yield a 16 inch gun at Watervliet near Troy New York the largest ever made Its trial will take place at Sandy Hook and it is claimed the gun can fire a 2000 pound shell twenty one miles It will defend New York from Fort Hamilton on a disappearing carriage weighing 200000 pounds
Meeting of veterans held Monday with many members present. Several membership applications received but the proper committee was not present, no action taken. Resolutions adopted in memory of the late comrade Cochran.
An opinion denounces expansionist aims in the Philippines preferring benevolent aims. It calls to consult Filipino leaders, promise self government, and subdue militarism while guiding Aborigines Cubans and soldiers toward civil authority. The piece attacks the Courier Journal for opposing this stance.
A collection of brief humorous exchanges and wry remarks from newspapers shows jokes about spinster expectations, trusting riches, and English lords versus American coal barons. The tone mirrors press humor, with pithy lines about wealth, trust funds, and aristocracy.
Giles Baker was acquitted Friday at 6 o clock by a jury in Davidson County Criminal Court of the murder charge in the Alex Donelson case. The trial concluded with the defendant released.
Weare announces Major Wa. Whitthorne as a candidate for Congress in the Seventh District subject to party action. Weare also announces L. P. Padgett as a candidate for Congress in the same district subject to Democratic party action.
Fragmentary report lists leaders from Shelbyville and surrounding counties including Lawrence, Rutherford, and Lincoln Moore, outlining a pending move tied to the Democrat Party and a Fifth Channel vacancy. Unclear dates and roles due to garbled OCR.
The report notes rising commerce with America’s possessions and a near two million dollar increase in German exports to the United States over the past year. It mentions fires in Chicago, Roosevelt's planned Oyster Bay vacation, a Catholic societies convention in Chicago, and other varied items including a fatal streetcar accident near St Louis and plans for Pennsylvania Railroad investments exceeding one hundred million dollars.
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