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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1900
Page
6
A collage of poem fragments on love and fate alongside fashion notes on foulards, tea gowns, and lace mantillas. The piece blends literary reflections with period style guidance, citing Goethe and Holmes as authorities on sentiment and dress.
A widow speaks on love’s stages and the torment of jealousy, noting how devotion distorts judgment and elevates small tokens to priceless value. She reflects on true friendship, fragile secrets, and the endurance of shared confidences amid memory and time.
The piece surveys summer dress trends for adults emphasizing cool airy gowns with minimal weight and warmth. It highlights printed patterns, modest tucking, frecbu and scarf effects on bodices, open neck house gowns, and a lace neck with unlined collars. It discusses a deep square yoke and scarf combos as preferred ideas for young women and mentions fichu draping to create shoulder lines.
Passengers in Middle and West Tennessee are urged to use Southern Railway for eastbound travel. The Nashville to Washington train leaves at 9:00 p.m. arriving 6:42 a.m., with connections to Baltimore Philadelphia and New York and a Pallman sleeping car Nashville to New York. A second Nashville departure at 3:30 p.m. connects at Chattanooga with service to Salisbury and New York, featuring Pullman sleeping car and day coaches.
A spoof piece mocks political candidates with archaic language showing a boastful fool. It threads a satirical lament through a quack remedy ad promising swift relief for bladder and kidney issues, ending with dubious product names and misspelled locales.
Dr. T. Koehibes of Tolkie Japan, visiting Nashville, says Maury County phosphate rock greatly surpasses Japanese ore in purity. He notes Tennessee samples reach 60 percent versus Japan’s 3 to 1 percent and predicts strong sales if priced reasonably.
A reader notes how newspaper ads reveal national character, citing Italian, French, German, English and American papers. She highlights types of products, travel pitches, beauty aids, and patents, then shifts to a Britain Herald report on global ship losses, showing Britain's low loss rate and per-country percentages.
The Farmers' Review debates a black seedless grape beyond California climate limits. The note cites consumer demand for a no seed grape to avoid appendicitis fears and boost market value, predicting high prices for such a fruit if developed.
An elderly Irish woman died recently bequeathing 27000 pounds to fund a church construction. Her will requested her body be cremated and ashes mixed into the mortar used for building the sanctuary. The unusual bequest sparked questions about the plan.
King Humbert of Italy, famed for his smoking, faced asthma and declining health from overindulgence. Doctors advised abstinence, but the king vowed to quit smoking, and his health subsequently improved after he limited tobacco use.
The report lists flour prices across varieties and grades, wheat and corn quotes, and live stock bids. Hogs range from 5.30 to 5.60, cattle from 3.85 to 5.25, sheep 2.50 to 4.25, and calves around 16.00. milk cows priced up to 50. The market notes steady to barely steady movement with receipts of hogs and sheep and a few cars of cattle.
Enormous prices were paid at a Charing Cross bazaar for orchids and buttonholes, with some items costing £5 or $25. The report recalls a prior anecdote of an elderly gentleman in a similar scene whopaid and then requested a clean cup after a tea service, muttering about “games” and a guinea.
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