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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1906
Page
10
Maury Dry Goods announces a seasonal stock reduction across all departments for men women and children. The sale promises deep price cuts to move stock quickly inviting shoppers to visit both stores without delay.
Local store announces heavy reductions across mens youths and boys garments. Inventory includes wash suits and all wool styles at deep discounts. coats, shirts, handkerchiefs, and underwear with prices slashed from 5 to 39 cents per item. Many suits priced well below former values, with ranges from youths to adults and multiple sizes mentioned.
A period advertisement lists wholesale like prices for ladies wool skirts and various fabrics. Skirts priced from 1.48 to 3.50, with former tags of up to 6. Fabrics include lawns, Swiss, organdies, tissues, Mulls, Grenadines, and Sea Island and Cumbric textiles, many at reduced per yard rates, some as low as 6 to 10 cents.
An ad touts extensive discounts on towels and linens. Large cotton towels 20x42 inches at 10 cents each, bleached bath towels at 12 to 19 cents, table linens up to 72 inches wide, pure linen damask at 9 cents, and napkins from $1.19 to $2.50, with sample lines slightly soiled.
Advertises carpets rugs and mattings with wool ingrain patterns for yard wide and full yard sides. Includes prices for quality ingrain, Brussels velvet, Jap and China matting remnants plus lengths up to 20 yards and multiple sizes and prices.
The University of Tennessee Knoxville offers literary, scientific, civil, mechanical, and agricultural studies with departments in Law and various shops. Free scholarships amounting to 215 for Tennessee students fund expenses. enrollment opens September 2. Address Brown Aves for information.
Claiming to relieve indigestion the advertisement markets Burdock Blood Bitters as a national remedy. It asserts strengthening stomach membranes promoting digestive juices flow and blood purification to build the user up.
The Tennessee Fair Association plans a grand Columbia fair with Wild Bill and his Indians as a feature. Prof Kopp and his band will also perform. The event promises record purses and large horse shows, attracting riders from Kentucky and other states, plus a Wild West spectacle by Wild Bill Kennedy and a 90-person troupe.
In Memphis on July 17, Mrs M R Patterson remains seriously ill with little hope of recovery. Gen Patterson remains at her bedside making attendance at campaigns impossible. Democratic campaign opening deferred as invitations to address the public are postponed amid statewide expressions of sympathy.
The July report notes ongoing threshing delays due to labor and rain, with unharvested grain, potatoes not dug, and late plowing. Local events include Children's Day at the Methodist church, burial processions, and a flood of visits, with social notices about residents and relatives across nearby towns. A Wilt West show advertizes dramatic riding and frontier feats.
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