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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1901
Page
3
McCain news reports a thriving growth in lumber and mining activity. It notes a touring mill, new arrivals, moving households, and local merchants expanding their routes. Health concerns are mentioned with several residents ill, while community worship and social visits shape the town’s weekly rhythm.
Batry Hunt reports widespread sickness in and around Rally Hill with multiple residents afflicted including Mrs Tom Chunn and Mrs Nan Scott while Mr Walter Moore recovers from pneumonia though his left leg remains severely swollen. A baby girl arrives at Will Chonn’s home as Jim McNeelie’s barn burns, stock saved but hay mower and harness lost. Evie Logan and Daisie Williams visit from Williamson County as farmers begin field work and women prepare home gardens.
Dr Kines New Life Pill advertised as a health booster with sugar coated globules claimed to convert weakness into strength and drain into mental power. Advertisement notes price and local seller W P Waldridge in Danks Mint with various local notices about illnesses and events and a fire incident involving Mrs Sam Nestart and Walter Nesbitt.
Last Thursday night a death mourns Medeke Martin and family as Mrs. Plora M. Martin dies at age 30 after living a Christian life. Services were led by Ly Hider Will and burial at the old Bugeh graveyard. Also notes of visitors, church songs, and several residents visiting kin in Spring Hill, Columbia, Neapolis, and Carter's Creek with sympathy offered to Mrs J Nichola's family.
Snow Creek reports from Feb 4 note Bro Rusban at Santa Fe, local grippe troubles, Bunt Cook returning from Texas and preferring Tennessee, Jim Berry and Joe Jones moving to Kentucky. Bertha Walker to start school March at Pigg Schoolhouse, and several visits among families in Timmon, Turkey Creek, Fly, and nearby farms. Alex McKennon improving, Beasle Pigg very ill. Verena Ler continues on Page Seven.
A lyrical broadside praising Carrie Nation and her hatchet tactics opposes the alcohol’s grip, laments the law’s reach, and imagines a future where women’s ballots and strikes end Prohibition’s harms. It calls for joint action by mothers and wives to unseat the liquor influence.
Local items from Mt Pleasant Tenn dated Feb 25 recount social events including weddings engagements and visits by Miss Eleanor Gregory and Miss Catey Barrett. The column notes illnesses such as pneumonia la grippe and ill health among townsfolk, upcoming church services by Rev Ira Landreth and Rev W A Cleveland, Mardi Gras in New Orleans attended by Master J Rodgers Hollingsworth, and planned moves and travel including D Cowper and Mrs H Hill family relocations.
Nora Woodruff, confined in Davidson county jail since November 23, 1508, was moved to the penitentiary to serve a life sentence for murdering her minor stepchild. The prisoner has shown strain from three months in jail and changes in appearance.
Citizens of Port Royal met at the Silk Farm two miles from town to discuss building a new turnpike from Spring Hill to Bethesda. A survey was adopted with $672 000 valued among attendees.
A Pan-Handle letter from Amarillo, Texas, notes a 4 chapel erected by Methodists, a large dedication crowd, and funds raised for a new church. It recounts travel through Maury County and Vernon, reflects on community growth, and reports a year of poor members funding a $1,000 preacher salary and $1,800 for the church, with 42 conversions at an altar.
In Ban Francisco Feb. J Holland third officer of the Rio de Janeiro survived the wreck after aiding passengers into lifeboats. He and Capt Ward moved to the starboard side as the boat went under the sea, Holland being swept under but grabbing a life preserver to rise and was rescued by an Italian fisherman.
A sharp social quip contrasts bachelor wisdom with a woman's view on money and emotion. A man earns forgiveness if he persuades her to believe he can move her to tears, a line from a New York reader seeking insight into romance.
A fragmented ad touts arnica salve as a cure for ailments caused by a ball hitting G. B. in Mawes Michigan. The text is garbled and includes unusual spellings and typos, mentioning ulcers and a two year recovery claim, typical of late vintage patent medicine notices. The source text is unclear and partially unreadable.
Washington reports the United States tops global export rankings for the calendar year. Total domestic merchandise exports reached 145 million dollars, surpassing the United Kingdom at about 1.41 billion and Germany at 1.05 billion.
At Lac Robert B. High School Lynnville celebration featured patriotic exercises and an oratorical contest with two debating society members participating. 8. Smith received a gold medal from Rev. R. E. Brown after the Board of Trust re erected the new building in appreciation of his services.
Citizens met to organize a roller mill company to be built at Ewell's Station. An 80 barrel mill is planned with stock largely sold, prices set at 50 per share in three installments of 35 percent each. W B Parman of Franklin to be miller and Walter A Bailey to serve as president. completion aimed for the new wheat crop.
Care Tows Feb 23 reports Col Plumer engaged Gen De Wet near Disevontein on the Orange River, capturing a gun and arm, taking fifty prisoners. De Wet and a handful of followers reportedly escaped to the opposite bank by boat. A Hoer source at Zeerust claims Gen Delarey has been captured.
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