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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1903
Page
6
Advert reads like a budget sales pitch, touting cash discounts on vehicles and finish quality. It urges buyers to compare Geo Delker and White Elephant vehicles with rivals at equal price, claiming cash discounts for ready sales and customer followings.
We invite you to trade for stock of any kind and bring in your old buggy. We will pay a good price for it on a new one. This offer covers a wide range of stock and promises fair value for used equipment.
A burned witching at Wilmington Del is linked to a father’s open letter urging calm and nonviolence. The New York World notes unusual features, including proximity to Paradelphia and New York, a white majority, and a sermon with blood stained leaves. Also mentions a tonic praised for stomach relief and a Denver baseball triple play by Gaston, with Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tone advertised.
OCR note lists discontinued post offices through July 31 with routing updates. Sawduet Valley mails go to R. KR. Columbus Watch and Parks Station redirect to Re R. Glendale to Rmbin.
A long praising note on Birmingham News Fifteenth Anniversary Edition highlighting its influence in Jefferson county and the South, and praising Rafas N. Rhodes as Birmingham’s leading citizen and potential U.S. senator. Also a short anecdote about Mrs. M. L. Bobbitt’s recovery from consumption using Dr King’s New Discovery. The ad closes with a drugstore offer for bottles and trial bottles.
A joint meeting of education and city committees with Boys' Training School stockholders decided to sell the Andrews school building for 7500 dollars.
An old advertisement touts Bucklen's Arnica Salve as a universal cure for pain from cuts wounds burns sprains and sore joints. It also claims relief for piles and feet issues and offers the product at 25 from W P Woldridge Drugstore.
The Ther a were easy and Columbia routed the Nashville Tigers Thoretay by a five to four score. The game featured strong hitting from Columbia as they secured the win in a high scoring affair.
Nashville Banner reports the $100,600 Sloan Trawick Tobacco Company will open September 1 as a wholesale tobacco firm serving Nashville District and parts of Kentucky Tennessee and Alabama. Arch Trewies and J A Sloan lead, with Sloan returning as Secretary Treasurer. Columbia firm J A Sloan Co. unaffected.
An old physician reports a vegetable remedy for consumption and lung ailments, claiming radical relief for nervous debility. He offers free instructions by mail in multiple languages, requesting the paper name. addressed to W. A. Noyes, 347 Powers Block, Chester, N.Y. Columbia defeated the Nashville Tigers 7 to 2 with Collins pitching effectively.
The body of Pope Leo lies in a marble sarcophagus in St Peter's awaiting final burial in the Church of St. John. Rumors of decomposition were denied as false. Members of the College of Cardinals plan to enter their cells next Friday evening with the conclave beginning the next day to elect a successor.
New York dispatch to the Chicago Tribune tells of John Crowley a year old who mourned his bachelor uncle after the father’s death. He wept for nearly three days, refused to eat or sleep, and died in his mother’s arms amid convulsive grief following the funeral. The report notes a strong bond between boy and uncle and details his persistent crying after learning of the uncle’s death.
Capt. Beale of the United States Arsenal is ordered to inspect militia companies at Johnson City Sparta the Alexander Guards in Nashville and Troops B in Tullahoma. These units have been organized and mustered since the last inspection.
Mrs J W Lockridge of 48 West Ith Street shares a testimonial about relief from kidney and bladder troubles after trying Beers Pills and Dean's Kidney Pills. The letter claims significant back pain and nocturnal distress improved after use.
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