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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1913
Page
12
Market reports show weak demand for eggs amid scarce supplies and heavy receipts in chickens. Prices for butter, lard, flour, grain, and various farm products are quoted by several dealers and mills, with notable highs and lows across meats, seeds, hides, and copper.
York June 19 A tall idee man of military asks for ship Santiadlo from Glasgow. Janet Gardner of Graham Morhy Scotland is to wed Capt. P. L. Smith US Army at Fort Thomas Kentucky. Gardner, daughter of a Glasgow merchant, was active on stage with a stock company before meeting Smith. The couple reportedly planned marriage after his return from duty.
The piece reports skeptical reaction to Andrew Carnegie's Vanderbilt University donation, with Bishop W A Candler calling it a ploy to control university property and to influence denominational policy, amid broader debate over Carnegie's conditions and the medical school plan.
June 17 Nashville. A group of prisoners plotted a tunnel escape through steel doors and concrete walls. A false step exposed the scheme and ringleaders Bruce Cliff Charlie Burch and John Green are in chains. Dick Lawrence Grundy Moore and John Edwards also held for aiding the escape attempt.
Washington June 19 Former President Taft and incumbent and retired senators and representatives appear in documentary evidence of the Overman lobby investigating committee. Sugar lobby agents were shown in daily contact with government officials and to have planned actions to trap Taft into partisan lobbies. The committee admitted letters to the record and prepared to broaden inquiry to the railroad lobby with union Pacific head Lovett cited as press-ganged to hire influential lawyers.
Government thermometer at Ashwood captured a record 8 degrees on Wednesday afternoon making it the warmest day of the year.
The front of the Maury National Bank is being scraped and painted, with completion expected to present a more attractive exterior. Inside frescoes work may be redone after the exterior is finished.
In Dallas a detainee slashed his throat with a razor while in a patrol wagon. Spectators saw blood stream from the vehicle and he died before hospital arrival. The prisoner, said to be M. P. Byron of Muskogee Oklahoma, was arrested after a telegram from Muskogee's prosecuting attorney alleged he fled there over a $1000 embezzlement charge.
Washington June 14 President Wilson selects Mrs I Borden Harriman to join the industrial commission to study disputes between employers and employees. Harriman led the National Women's Wilson and Marshall Democratic League during the recent campaign.
Revenue Agent Knox Booth reports a moonshining raid in Slay county near the Kentucky boundary. Millard and Dillard Nevins were arrested after a man tried to shoot officers. their bonds were set at 250 and 3000 dollars respectively. The woman involved fled but a warrant has been issued for her.
A quirky local plea describes widespread fly traps in Columbia. It argues for more traps to reduce nuisance and promote public health, framing it as a campaign against the fly with lighthearted wordplay.
Final conferences on President Wilsons currency reform bill set the stage for its introduction in Congress this week and the public message to follow. The plan retires all 2 percent government bonds over twenty years replacing them with 38 percent bonds tied to a regional reserve system under government supervision.
The Greek Pageant drew large crowds at the Nashville opera house on Monday afternoon. Senators and congressmen offered pleas of personal discomfort as the victorious administration supporters presented their views. The event, held as part of a broader cultural pageant, drew attendees for a second time and received high compliments despite near weather changes.
In Cornersville, near Lewisburg, thieves broke into the Charles Welch store last night and stole 32 dollars in postal funds and about 100 dollars worth of jewelry including rings and watches. No stamps were taken and no clue or motive is known.
Mrs Mollie Scott of Culeloka was taken to Nashville this morning for a surgical operation. She is accompanied by her brothers Hunt and Will Dugger.
New York June 14 Dr Freder ich F Friedmann the Berlin physician who claimed a cure for tuberculosis sailed for Germany today His New York institute was closed after the board of health forbade his vaccine The doctor did not say if he would return
June 17 at Dillonvale a mule kicked a wire at Jefferson Coal Company mine. A spark ignited powder, causing an explosion that fatally injures four men and leaves several others seriously hurt.
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