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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1900
Page
2
The note promises a broad stock of goods in Columbia with cash discounts and low prices. It pledges good judgment and generous savings, claiming special low prices on heavy overcoats and coats, jackets, and capes, to attract county and town shoppers.
The notice lists several candidates authorized to announce runs for sheriff and congress in Maury County and the Seventh Congressional District. It also includes various illness and local health updates for residents, and a government fuel procurement notice from Columbia Arsenal, Tennessee dated March 1, 1900.
A traveling party mirrors a sketching class as they drift along a country road. They spot a fence bursting with stalks bearing globe shapes, green hats shading to gray and purple. A gardener explains the plants are onions gone to seed, prompting playful remarks about art and nature.
British forces under Lord Roberts report success at Ladysmith with Dundonald leading Natal regiments. Dispatches cite ongoing advance northward after a victory on Majuba anniversary. Roberts confirms surrender of three thousand under Oronte and Wiltis forces, now prisoners at camp Roa- ers.
Over the county updates announce Mrs Pattie Jennings visiting Mt Pleasant and congratulate local families on new babies Wallace Brown Johns Long and others welcomed additions. Ads promote Barry Rose Red Triumph Potatoes at W M Davis and Ww wool orders for market. A partial rescue story recalls Herbert Graves narrowly escaping injury from a cow horn incident. Miss Ledbetter advertises a rental at 28 Twelfth Street Columbia. Bruce Amis of McCains improves after a tree limb accident. Small town notices include a lodging offer and a tinting establishment opening on North Main Street.
Rev Sam Jones starts a meeting in Nashville on March 4 Ash Wednesday marking Lent. St Peters Episcopal Church held 1 am services and daily Lent services follow at related churches with altered hours Fridays 7 30 pm. South Columbia Methodist discusses lesson topics led by F H Wood, KR Griggs and John D Padgett with reflections, plus second round quarterly meetings listed at Sugar Creek Mt Zion Mooresville Taylors and South Columbia areas. George Blount, a local Black resident, was crushed to death Saturday at Mt Pleasant by a runaway crusher, with remains to be interred Sunday.
A sequence of deaths hits Campbell's Station and Corona deaths from pneumonia and illness. Gertie Gracey and Birdie Kerr among the deceased. Mrs Jordan Green, Andrew Phillips, Mrs Will Lovell, Mrs Logan Swope and Eugene Cochran also noted. Funeral services held in Rose Hill Cemetery and local churches. Families relocate from California to the county. victims ranged from young adults to elderly.
A fragmented list of discounted clothing and household items from an annex store. Items include Crest shirts, night shirts, sweaters, fleece undergarments, children's wear, sleeping garments, overgaiters, rubber soles, gores, legging sets, capes and mackintoshes, lap robes, shoe dressing, boards, games, lamp fixtures, oil cans, curtain poles, and assorted hardware with shockingly low prices listed in uncertain OCR phrasing.
Proprietor F Swansburg Layants Tennessee certifies the Milwaukee Binder is the ideal farm machine. The record lists numerous hard-to-read stock transfers and land lots in Mt Pleasant and nearby districts with varied sums and parcels. Multiple persons including J D Barrow and W H Watson appear with property and stock assignments across several districts.
OCR fragment lists various farm commodities and supplies including wool ginseng oats wheat corn hay clover stock peas and flour with references to wagon loads and containers suggesting a wartime or market ledger note. Names and some terms are garbled but indicate a shipment description and typical rural trade items.
Jim Umble, a white boy about fifteen, was arrested Wednesday by Officer Goad for breaking into G. K. Howser’s store on North Garden Street Tuesday night. He entered by breaking a window and took tobacco, fruit, meat, and other items. He was taken before a magistrate and bound over to the Criminal Court. Umble has prior arrests but was released for youth. An earlier incident involved breaking a gin at W. J. Guest & Co’s meat shop on South Main Street. Buggies and car loads of new styles were advertised by Sattesfield & Dolson.
Special to The Mason Nashville February 24 Chief E B M Carrot of the Nashville fire department was thrown from his buggy in the early hours. His skull was fractured by the fall and he is considered in dangerous condition.
Madison County reports by experts probing County Trustee J Hant reveal a $15000 shortage in county books with more findings expected. The investigation centers on misaccounting and related charges tied to Hunt formerly a State Comptroller candidate who previously denied wrongdoing.
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