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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1901
Page
2
Maury Dry Goods Company announces a clearance sale to ease stock taking. Clear ance pricing applies across all departments with choice new season goods offered at deeply discounted rates to help customers save after a thorough inventory.
Readable text describes a clearance sale with over two thousand yards of fabric and lace remnants. It promises sales from one quarter to two thirds of original value, highlighting Hamburg edges and insertion lace. Items include wide edgings and insertions, with many pieces valued high per yard, now offered at reduced prices.
Four items list a clearance sale with yard prices for pliers of imported lmpor'ed Rwisses in colors, lawns and dimities, Madras Ginghams, and linen fabrics. Prices drop from 1c and Lie per yard to Ty¢, Than, and 100 per yard depending on piece, with ranges including 31 inch wide Madras Ginghams and red green striped linen for skirts and dresses.
Clearance sale offers Pine Fren fabrics including foulards and imported ginghams. Nine other pieces of dire wash fabrics priced to clear. Most items well below regular value. clearance price set at 1c per yard.
Local advertisement outlines discounts on domestics and sheetings. Featured items include 244 yard wide broad goods and yard wide brown domestics with substantial markdowns from real values. Names of brands are unclear due to OCR errors, but the sale emphasizes yardage and good quality fabrics at reduced prices.
Offer lists 100 pairs of 2 and 8250 Oxfords to loge at a loss with many shapes available. Most are black with a few tans. Choice 31 per pair advertised in a clearance sale.
About fifty 10 suits in broken lots sizes 34 to 42 to fit every buyer. Your choice for 445 dollars, encompassing new Flannel Salts Serge and Linen coats and pants from top makers. Greatly reduced prices on summer clothing in well fitting sums.
Over the county news reports visitors and relations in Andrews Santa Fe Hickman county Carter's Creek and Sawdust Valley. Mentions crops weather changes and local commerce. Notices include lumber buying and bag sales with prices and contact details. Community updates cover education staff at Lawrenceburg Institute and local residents visiting kin.
Deaths include Mrs Mary L Brown 84 of Zion neighborhood long Christian life widow of D C Brown with Dobbins origins. funeral at Zion Chapel. Also Charles Ingram Cecil dies Ashwood after long illness. survivors include siblings and wife with service in Mt Pleasant Methodist church. Ruby and Tammy Lucas 3 month twins die of whooping cough. burials at Knob Creek Cemetery. Family sympathy extended.
Multiple short notices report deaths in Williamson County and nearby areas including Beulah Thompson at Sowell s Mill Pike Columbia age 22 from consumption funeral in Lewisburg 3 PM Saturday E W Kannon 65 funeral Monday Reece s Graveyard Jane M Chandler 61 in South Columbia funeral by Rev Capera at home Lochridge graveyard T H Carpenter 25 funeral Friday Elder Newton Derryberry interment at local graveyard Edward J Green prominent Williamson County farmer dies near Nolensville age 70 1 Miss Laura Smithson 11 dies at Park s Station funeral Bryant Graveyard later note includes cold remedy promotion not part of obits.
A report notes R R seeks Jackson Tennessee in July with a defined act involving M C Road locating its principal vaca tional shops at Whistler Alabama possibly transferring there. It states the Whistler shops may move, employing over a hundred people. G X LaPrade qualified as administrator of W E Killebrew for $120,000.
The Chicago and Alton wreck near Norton Missouri left sixteen dead, with three dying on relief trains and seven in hospitals in Kansas City. Passenger train No 7 collided head on with freight No 5 at six o clock Wednesday morning, eight killed outright, about sixty five injured, a fire broke out from the wreckage, and relief trains rushed to Kansas City.
The Democratic state convention met at Convention Mall Columbus on July 11 under tense conditions. Conservatives allied against Mayo Tom L Johnson factions but after an all night resolutions session cooperation faded. Johnson supporters carried state matters while rival factions won on national issues Kilbourne named governor by acclamation.
L P Papert offers a fifty acre stock farm for lease one mile southeast of Columbia. The property includes a barn and tenant homes and is available for a term of three or five years. Gistf.
Governor consults with Commissioner Paine on Mississippi charbon outbreak. Live Stock Commissioner Dunn to investigate in Memphis and possibly Mississippi. Dunn reports rapid livestock deaths on plantations, with high fever, chills, paralysis and swift fatalities. Memphis planters seek replacements. quarantine measures ordered to cover West Tennessee and surrounding counties.
Officials at the Columbia Arsenal report Corporal Stevens, who vanished the night of last November's cyclone, has surrendered in Memphis. Last seen at the Bethell House an hour before the storm, searchers found no trace of him. Desertion carries six months to two years in prison with dishonorable discharge. He likely returned to face consequences and “took his medicine.”
A Bates offers Russell's Foot Adjuster for precise horseshoeing with exact hoof alignment. Located on South Main Street, telephone 413, promising careful craftsmanship and a full guarantee.
Mrs Patterson advertises largest stock in Columbia featuring newest styles and best quality. It mentions buggy and satirical items, highlighting variety and quality for shoppers.
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