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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1913
Page
5
Special to The Herald reports the funding board will seek a legislative resolution authorizing short term borrowing and an amendments bill to the funding act. Copies will go to faction leaders. A board member departs for New York to assist if needed legislation permits action.
A historic advertisement claims deafness stems from inflammation of the Eustachian tube and catarrh. It promises cure with Hall's Catarrh Cure, offering $100 for any case not cured, and notes the product sold by druggists at 75 cents.
June 18 Murfreesboro Tennessee Victory an employee of J W Mexander escaped death when driving a tile cutter along a farm. A mule driven machine ran away throwing him forward into the cutter. Pittman rod broke stopping the knife and guards dragged him to safety. He suffered severe flesh wounds but rest is reported easy and not dangerous.
A local advert promotes a carload of Agatite Plaster and a carload of lathes offered by J H Thomas & Co. It touts Agatite Plaster as the best on the market and notes it is 80 conceded by plasterers. The ad invites readers to see prices and visit the company's location at 10 end of day two weeks and two to three days.
Memphis priests condemn rag dancing calling it a sin and underworld activity. They plan to ex communicate members of Catholic churches who participate in dances like the bunny hop and turkey trot, part of a clergy crackdown started Sunday in Memphis.
A Cumberland Telephone Company review by the Columbia Board of Trade finds complaints about insufficient country line capacity to handle rising business. The report commends employees and Manager Fred Latta for courteous service and suggests adding day operators and improving the switchboard to meet demand.
Horace Rainey advertises elite blackberries available to everyone at two dollars and fifty cents per case of six gallons. Contact details illegible. offer appears in a local market notice from a historical newspaper page segment.
A Columbia Board of Trade committee notes that demand for telephone service exceeds capacity on the county lines serving Mt Pleasant Cullooka and Spring Hill. Operators are courteous, but busy lines hinder prompt connections. The group urges management, under Fred Latta, to expand facilities. co operation from the Board of Trade is assured.
Builders advertise their services for home construction and supplies including siding ceiling doors sash frames shingles. The firm promises reliable work and self-promotion notes their capability with assertive claims.
Special to The Herald Nashville June 18 four Vanderbil t University board members oppose accepting the Carnegie donation with conditions. Bishop Hoss announces plans to resist the gift while promoting Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as a household preventive for summer illness.
A. H. Ford, president of the Birmingham Light and Power Company, was arrested in Birmingham on a kidnapping warrant sworn by labor leaders. The arrest affects tomorrow's disorderly conduct and conspiracy hearing in police court, which will be nolled and moved to a jury trial. Ford is accused of aiding a group of his employees to force William Welsh of the Street Railway Employes Union to leave the state.
Reprint notes the famed remedy Chamberlain's Tableta gaining fame for stomach and liver relief. Advertises widespread sale, claiming unmatched efficacy and popular approval among readers.
In London six top militant suffragette leaders and one male ally were found guilty of conspiracy to damage property. Sentences ranged from six to twenty one months with hard labor and orders to keep the peace for a year. most women signaled hunger strikes while Mrs Saunders received fifteen months and Mr Clayton twenty one months.
The couple Waiter Lancaster and Miss Sara Ebart were united in marriage Sunday by Psy. C. G. Ross. The equalization board is in session at the courthouse and all parties with complaints are urged to come forward. Ben Cowley, Tax Assessor.
Geo W Nichols, recently ending his moving picture business in Gallatin and Franklin, returns to Columbia to open a grocery. He rents the former Bauman’s Bakery site next to Martin’s Drug Store, plans a wide stock, a built in refrigerator, and other trade conveniences. Repairs and stock selection are underway with an opening in a few weeks.
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