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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1900
Page
6
A collage of fragments on kissing, fashion trends, homemade cooking, and poetry themed around love and daily life. Includes advice on kissing, pompadour hair, jumbles recipe, and reflections on intent versus action. Mentions Lippincote’s Magazine and The Pompadour as period sources.
Soil guidance notes describe removing potash from soil and replacing with a fertilizer containing 89 percent potash. It warns a potash deficiency reduces crop yield and offers free books on composition and fertilizer use from German Kali Works, New York.
The piece discusses women's hairstyles favoring longer bangs and curls, deeming short foreheads unflattering. It notes a shift away from vivid colors toward softer browns and taffeta linings. Black velvet ribbons with crystal buckles accent lace waists and boleros as fashionable garniture.
George Alvereon, a colored man, was arrested by Officer Gund after a break into a freight car at the depot. A toll house tip led police to Alvereon near John M. Gray's farm, where he confessed the stolen tobacco was given by Alex Witherspoon. Witherspoon was later arrested and confessed to the break in.
Thomas Gilbreath and John Henry Smith fought over a woman in Mt Pleasant on Sunday morning. Smith suffered deep cuts. Gilbreath was attacked with a bottle causing injury. The incident occurred on Chinch Row. Gilbreath was arrested as Smith’s condition awaited word on his injuries.
Chan cellor Abernathy granted five divorces this week. David Pickard, separated thirteen years, and Mrs. D. McDonald and Mrs. Amanda Armstrong also received divorces. Moments later licenses issued to Steve Anglin of Vernyn and his new wife. Also notes on clothing, wind system consolidation talks, YMCA convention in Chattanooga, and the death of David B. Harned, a longtime Lana community resident and veteran of the Mexican and Civil wars.
The dispatch blends garbled bids about river control and costly possessions, referencing Teotexses river allocations and payments to Spain. It mentions a public garden seed fund and political notices from Pulaski and Bometow amid disjointed war talk and foreign affairs chatter.
Contained in a Philadelphia Press excerpt a man pleads for renewed affection while the woman admits her heart will be controlled for now by a syndicate. The exchange hints at underlying power or influence over her feelings.
New York Journss reports cattle in snowy steppes wear specially made colored spectacles to protect eyes from dazzling sun on glare. A man created cow spectacles now used by over 40,000 head of cattle, as Hon L P Padgett, possible Sixth district congress candidate, spoke at a noon rally.
A garbled miscellany mixes a murder trial report with stray dialect dialogue and pushy political banter. Vague references include Seymour Wauketeh in a U S district court, a spring candidate quip about votes, racist street talk, and Census enumerator chatter.
Felix Bowser, colored, charged with disturbing an educational meeting in Criminal Court. He reportedly submitted his case Saturday afternoon and testified to small sums. Bowser operated a subscription school in the fourteenth district and allegedly interrupted a public school event, taking charge of the room. Other cases include Blate v. Brown Harris for larceny and continued hearings for Jones and Reed on selling liquor without a license.
A fragmented note outlines a newspaper issue with the main article a prayer and local crimes only briefly mentioned. It mentions revival meetings and anti counterfeit efforts as principal textures and notes an article on starving Andra.
Brownlow controlled the committee by a 12 to 7 vote. The State Republican Executive Committee met in Nashville at 10 o clock and called a state convention for April 19 to elect delegates to the National Convention and nominate state officers. A resolution set county conventions to meet by March 17, with the first Monday in April as the date for those not yet held.
The Nashville American recounts Edith Lynn Bears inspired by a New York Herald headline "All Quiet along the Potomac" from 1831 and notes Tennyson’s Charge of the Light Brigade drew from an account of the battle of Balaklava where the phrase Some one had blundered appeared.
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