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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1901
Page
8
An advertisement promotes Hamilton smoothing harrows and a range of farm tools including wire products, poultry netting, square mesh field fence, and plows such as Double Shovel and Oliver Chill Plows. It touts unusually low prices and urges buyers to purchase now.
The piece notes Mayor elect Tom L. Johnson and the municipal ownership platform shaping public discourse in Cleveland. It cites editorials from the Nashville American and Milwaukee Journal on democracy, equal rights, and franchise value. It also links vested interests to street, utility, and monopoly issues and mentions national figures like Lee Merriwether and Rolla Wells, concluding with a local advertisement for Hall's Catarrh Cure.
A humor column sketches light moments and misheard phrases. A doctor note requests aid for ailing wife and a teacher tests understanding of a buttress while a child mispronounces and a couple jokes about in laws and mother.
A local dealer promotes lawn mowing gear with a Philadelphia brand mower offering quick start and yard maintenance. The pitch emphasizes keeping grass neat in homes and yards.
Press opinions critique Texas push to rival the Standard Oil Trust in the oil industry while praising Rockefeller as owner of oil resources. Memoranda note the Standard Oil quarterly dividend of 20 million dollars and the legislature ending in a mess with calls for an investigative standing committee to safeguard reputations.
Ad promotes Cascarets Candy Cathartic as a quick way to obtain health and vitality with claims of a lively liver clean blood and bright eyes. Genuine tablets stamped CCC never sold in bulk available through all druggists for 10 cents.
Black men boating along the Duck River near Ashton's Mill discovered a newborn infant floating in the water. The infant is believed to be white in appearance and there is no information on parentage or origin. The case remains under investigation with no identified relatives.
Lieut Bob Ragsdale tears down the Estes house on Twelfth street recently occupied by T C Brittain and plans two new cottages on the lot. Local real estate development expected to enrich that city area.
A subscriber note requests return of a Werney Hen to the office as copies ran short last week. Dickens Avenue is designated as the new broad street between Holborn and the Strand in London. An organist who died in Sweden served as choirmaster for 72 years at one church, and stars had played the organ there for 90 years.
Three Italian outlaws said to be among a group of brigands arriving in New York and moving toward the west are under strict surveillance in Kansas City. Police Commissioner Murphy warned officials that Italian criminals are arriving by ship and that the United States is being used as a dumping ground for cast-offs from Italian prisons and pauper houses.
East India Competition reports on Bombay cotton sales to major Japanese mills. The Cotton Spinners' union notes 2300 bales bought for shipment. Nippon Yusen Kaisha to carry 100,000 bales at 12 rupees per ton. Manufacturers plan mixing Bombay and American cotton, or using Bombay alone, citing lower Japanese costs.
Hamilton Bermuda reports excitement over the expected arrival of 1700 Boer prisoners. The British government has leased Darrells Island, a large land in the sound near Warwickshire, for one year with a month’s notice option to relinquish. Tucker’s Island was inspected but no settlement set by April 24.
In Minnesota April 50 a report by Prof H L Holley of North Dakota Agricultural College warns flax crops northwest of the state suffer from a persistent parasitic fungus similar to that afflicting wheat. The fungus remains in soil for years and can reappear after periods of wheat-free cropping. Investigations seek soil treatments or seed treatments to combat the disease with formaldehyde and other methods.
April 22 1901 edition quotes the Birmingham Daily News calling the event a great show with praise from readers.
A fragmented agenda lists devotional exercises and talks at Cullooka and Columbia with Rev. T e Hudson P Graham and Hon L P Padgett among speakers. Sessions cover Bible study church work Sunday school methods and officer elections with noon recess and multiple afternoon addresses.
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