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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1900
Page
3
Our County Correspondents deliver scattered items from Water Porst to Nashville. Updates include illness recovery, social visits, school plans, and travel mentions. An herbal cure advertisement and local notices follow, with reports of weather, visits, and community events amid routine health claims.
An advertisement extols Buecklen’s Arnica Salve as the best in the world for burns, scalds, and bruises. It claims quick pain relief and healing for old sores, fever sores, ulcers, boils, felons, corns, and skin eruptions. Sold by Waldridge & Irvine druggists with a money back guarantee.
Sunsysion reports a Sunday sermon by Rev. M. J. Gabard with visitors including Mr. and Mrs. Knox Kennedy and Miss Cornelian Binford. Local social notes mention travels, recoveries from illness, deaths, and family bereavements, plus a sales pitch for Dr King’s New Life Pills with testimony of relief and health benefits.
A fragmentary missive mentions missing columns and a March timing, with unresolved references to Bewsy columns and ascertainable context. The text hints at a columnist absent from regular duties and signals planned March updates or notes.
March 6 issue notes residents Wilco residents William McClair Joan White and John S Brown in touch. Rev Seay held service at Blanton's Chapel. Mrs Gor Parke visiting Lasea area returns home. Weather slows farmers. poultry business ad hints at partnership. Local printers ink and a bachelor seeks marriage amid the chatter.
An ad proclaims Rheumatium cured in a day by Myatic Care with fast action on rheumatism and neuralgia. It claims immediate disappearance of the disease after the first dose and lists a price of 7. cents. Sold by A. R. Bains druggist in Columbia, novsam.
An antiquated sale blurb advertises a March shoe clearance with mixed male and female sizes. It lists Men’s, Ladies, and Misses footwear, prices noted with heavy discounts including heavy tap sole, Neary tap, and Drew Kid models, all reduced from marked prices to low sale amounts.
The Board of Mayor and Aldermen met in regular session Thursday night. Theo Green resigned as city work home keeper and Will Holman was elected to replace him. An election filled the vacancy on the Board of Education caused by W T Naff’s resignation, with Dr W M Biddle chosen for the position. The board adjourned after routine business.
Fashion notes describe popular summer wear details including Valenciennes lace trims, striped ribbons, and sheer tulle effects. Persian foulards and embroidered butiste offer color and texture, while lighter undergarments and chemises gain traction for Easter wear. White petticoats and black and white striped silk slide into dressy wardrobes.
A buggy carrying W. F. Scott and three children overturned Saturday afternoon on Morgan’s Mill pike. Scott’s daughter Mary suffered a badly fractured arm and friends hope her injured limb heals promptly.
The Knoxville Sentinel comments that if three thousand Boers can hold back fifty thousand British for a week amid the Miley gate fire, how long would British defeat take against a Boer army of sixty thousand. The Boers are still the lesser sufferers in the logic of the piece.
The Maury County Teachers Association met in regular session at the Public School on Saturday March 4 with President J M Fiercefeld presiding. An executive committee was appointed including Mrs Wilkes J G Wright and Mrs Beecher along with Prof Dodsooke to review new textbooks. The program featured Prof Fleming address a model class in language a recitation by Mrs Carrie Romick Baldwin and arithmetic instruction by Mr Williams. Attendance urged for the next meeting April 7 as arrangements proceed for a teachers institute this summer.
A Harper's Bazaar style feature details spring shirtwaists in mercerized cotton and sheer lawn. Designs emphasize short waists with drummed backs, narrow bias bands, and elaborate tucks, embroidery insertion, and ribbons. Linen collars and weather belts complement outfits.
A growing sentiment favors establishing whipping posts for minor offenses in DC. Supporters argue it would curb crime and reduce prison costs as jails fill. Maryland's 1882 law is cited as effective, especially for wife beating, which is common in Washington.
A locomotive escaped from the Bennington and Rutland railroad roundhouse in Rutland, Wisconsin, and sped nine miles down the main line before being captured. The helper jumped clear as the engine menaced the car crew, some leapt off at Cold River, a crash followed by flying debris, yet the engine remained unharmed and continued toward Wall-Jogford as another locomotive pursued. The fugitive kept to a freight schedule with a clear track ahead despite the danger.
Mrs Jas Caldwell nearly recovers from la grippe. Miss Dovin Collier suffers a vaccinated arm issue. Mrs Lizzie Shirley's son fights fever and pneumonia. Mrs A Cheslar returns from Nashville after attending to her sister Mrs L Barkel- in portal life.
At Mrs Grant’s gathering guests included Manuel de Aeplrox the Mexican ambassador and Laifistoas Hengelmarler Jon Hen gervar the Austrian minister. The event featured remark on artists and old money, with dialogue about a non buyer who did not view the speaker’s pictures.
Honolulu readers receive an unpublished 14 year old wreck narrative told by Capt Walker of the City of Columbia. The Wander ing Minstrel was wrecked near Sand Islands in 1848, crews saved, one survivor Jorgenson later confessed murder of the captain and mate amid driftwood crosses marking graves. A second note reports on a copper tempering claim by Charles Pletcher with Frank Rockefeller backing, promising steellike copper skin on steel plates for lake steamers.
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