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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1902
Page
8
To our friends, we report we are slightly disfigured but in the ring. We are back in business at the Grigsby building on the Public Square with fresh goods arriving and a large warehouse for more. Salvage from old stock offers small prices and big value. We want your trade as ever and thank you for your sympathy.
A survey of towns famed for repellent conditions. Amoy in China is described as the filthiest city, with 400000 residents and millions of graves intermingled with wells and streets. Artena in Italy is noted for universal murder attempts. Gheel near Antwerp houses thousands of lunatics living among locals. Foulness Island near London is the most isolated town within 50 miles, reachable only by boat.
Christian in Norway reports the United States battleship Illinois struck the harbor bottom due to a faulty steering gear. The vessel must return to England for dry dock repairs. In Shamokin Pennsylvania, authorities moved 50 special policemen and laborers to the Reading Co Henry Clay washery to end the strike with no demonstrations.
A Brookline Eagle item notes a comment on a man’s prideful stance in politics. He avoided the scramble for office, and now has nothing but his dignity, highlighting themes of pride and public service in a small town civic scene.
A collage of eccentric anecdotes and social observations cites three hundred Edwardian photos of kings, a New York streetcar magnate, aristocratic garter histories, and a tale of P. D. Armour gifting tailored suits to employees. The piece blends humor with celebrity, health tips, and business legends from the early 20th century.
The piece labels scrupulosity in writing as a maladaptive neurosis that hinders effort and responsibility. It argues excessive vigilance harms useful work, warns against overanalysis by officials or media, and promotes restraint and selective judgment as sound practice. The Grand Canyon quote from Dr. Talmage is cited as grandiose rhetoric.
In a rustic Chicago tale a mule named Caractacus, owned by Col Bill Spooner, becomes the center of long memory. The piece recounts Scipio the slave and mule feuds, a nephew’s abolitionist act, and Caractacus’s death and graveyard scene with neighbors reflecting on the old colonel’s plantation era.
Summary of a New York World report describes M Santos-Dumont, the aeronaut known as M Santos, knitting during flights and at home. His Elysee palace hotel apartments in Paris display cross stitch chairs and embroidered linens. He knits when facing knotty aeronautical problems, while his rooms reflect his artistic taste with white and gold drawing rooms and pale blue silk walls.
Clerk and Master Orrick in Columbia Tennessee issues order against non resident Sam B Hardison to appear within three days of the next term and plead to complainant Cheek. If not, the bill will be confessed and set for hearing ex parte. Order to be published four consecutive weeks in the Columbia Herald. June 20 41.
Lena Rohmer of Gretna Nebraska, 22, stepped in front of a Union Pacific train at Denver Union Station on July 15 intending suicide. Both legs were severed. she is expected to die. She was traveling to Glenwood Springs for health reasons after arriving from the east.
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