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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1900
Page
7
Building improvements spread through Maury County as new residences rise using Gar caps rior stock. Local contractors note a ready supply of Lumber, Ceiling, Siding, Flooring, Sash, and Doors with attractive prices. Bell phone 267.
The column notes cold weather and new houses under construction in the village. It mentions residents visiting family, schoolgirls writing home, social gatherings, and a church or community event led by Misse Mand Brantley. It also shares local updates on farming, smallpox vaccination concerns, and advertisements for Casearets.
Community updates report visits by residents and relatives, entertained guests, and social events in Williamsport and Promise City Iowa. Mentions upcoming marriages, a death, and a claim about Mystic Cure for rheumatism by ex postmaster T. F. Anthony.
March notes show W H Waggoner visiting grandchildren in Fairview and returning to Nashville. Mrs Sallie Swele and Carrie Alexander visit relatives in Mr Pleasant. Davis family returns to Montville after visit. Ed Voas relocates to DP Dortch. Newt Vaughn fences the Padgett place. Housemoves and church services noted. Dixon to preach next Sunday if weather allows.
Mr A W Denham born 25, aged 22 years died March 15 after a long life of public and business involvement. Married to Mary Vernon in November 1, he joined and served in Pleasant Grove Congregation for years. He leaves a widow and many children, with pallbearers named. Funeral conducted by Hen H Sorfaew and Rev Fon Mitchell at Pleasant View.
Rev P S Mitchell sent an order to the American School Furniture Co for desks for the new school house. He expects arrival soon. Reported frost fears damaged peaches but none were killed.
Fragmented OCR text shows names and events focused on community figures, a meningitis death, and religious reflections. Mentions Miss Mattia Patton and Miss Brooke with teaching roles, local families such as Mr and Mrs Breliah Aki, and a death on March 11 followed by a May Day style benediction. The piece blends schedule items with a funeral gospel tone.
Admiral Dewey urged the navy to sheath ships, citing faster speeds and wartime merits. Secretary Long promised a quick rejoinder as Rear Admiral Michborn defended the practice with foreign comparisons. The House Naval Committee heard testimony on the six ships planned for sheathing and other officials favored preserving the provision.
The doctor argues society must slaughter a half million to improve the race. In Heredity and Human Progress he urges eliminating dependent and criminal classes through due process. He proposes carbonic acid gas as a painless extinction method and calls for thorough examination before any life is taken.
Mastodon bones discovered near Hagerstown Indiana with several large vertebrae and a ten inch across clock inserted in a vertebra. Workmen previously split bones among themselves and many pieces were lost. A farmer preserved a vertebra fragment with a clock. other skeleton parts found nearby. A Barham College skeleton is cited as among the finest.
Revival at Sharpstown Methodist church triggers a religious rally at the basket factory. About 130 young women sing pray and shout causing a work stoppage while the proprietor urges them to rejoice and continue, drawing roughly 200 visitors and extending services into the afternoon.
An assortment of carriages from light whalebone speeders to depots wagons is offered by Satterfield & Dodson, plus improvised book cases featuring a Burns life and a Carnegie gift. Peary’s $30,000 meteorite, held at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, is deemed Lieut Peary’s personal property and nontransferable, valued at about $50,000, with university buyers hoped for.
Reported on a seven day rite among Yakima Indians near Toppenish Washington. Two hundred participants, led by Chief White Swan, underwent grueling tests to elect a new medicine man with severe self torture. Running Coy ote chosen but near death. Other notes include a rescuer’s pending marriage and satirical commentary on theater and school discipline.
A stylized speech fragment has Par ton White addressing listeners as Drwiders and sistahs. He mentions complaints about the length of his "tuhmone" and a reform promising fixed counting before a sequence ending with a salmon reference in a playful, rhythmic style.
Fragmentary dialogue appears to reference a fort and morning activity with unclear context and several garbled names. No clear events or entities beyond scattered terms can be identified.
A Scotch gardener at Washington’s botanical gardens accumulates a Burnsbrary worth thousands. He plans to donate the collection to the Carnegie Library at Pittsburg upon his death. The library holds Burns related literature and varied stories of his life, reflecting the gardener’s admiration.
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