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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1901
Page
8
Local ad lists barbed wire smooth wire wire shorts poultry netting and square mesh field fence. Also features double shovel plows chill plows and garden tools including disk harrows. Promotes Hamilton and Corn Duke smoothing harrows with unusually low prices.
A local promotion invites customers to start in time and purchase a Philadelphia lawn mower from the seller. The ad emphasizes keeping grass neat in homes and yards through a featured product sale.
A catastrophic blaze in Jacksonville spread from a small factory caused by a defective wire, burning for hours and destroying 130 blocks. Loss estimates range up to 15 million dollars with 10,000 to 15,000 residents displaced and major buildings including the city hall, county records, hotels, churches, and schools wiped out. Militia and police reinforced the burned district as rescue and aid efforts began. authorities warned of potential lawlessness while fire crews fought through a southwest gale and used dynamite to raze threatened structures.
On the night of 31, authorities offered shelter for refugees in Mort Hor raneas St Augustine. Judgeonville received the offer and St Augustine pledged to shelter others. Sheriff Vince gathered 83 prisoners and deputies and marched them to Livers vile then to Glencoe near St Augustine.
An early 1900s advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure with a one hundred dollar reward claim and endorsements from F. J. Cheney and partners. It asserts internal action through the bloodstream and mucous membranes, notes price per bottle, and lists wholesale druggists and related products.
Washington Miss 7 The Commissioner of Internal Revenue ruled tobacco stamps will change on a date. New stamps worth 100 will be issued with a 20 percent discount for packing and materials. Stamps cannot be redeemed to base manufacturers. dealers must affix stamps to packages to obtain any discount.
Joseph Colling of Seattle, appointed administrator for Frederick Hutchinson's estate, finds control of about 200,000 in mine sacks and securities after opening Hutchinson's safe vault in Philadelphia. The fortune is to pass to Herbert T Hutchinson of Philadelphia, a deaf beneficiary, and two sisters in England.
An elderly man questions whether townsfolk care about his happiness. A grocer replies with blunt, comic banter about motives and a quip about selling wagon grease. The brief dialogue ends with a humorous jab as the man pockets clothespins and cranberries.
In Bellefonte Pennsylvania a man named Jdessen King shot his bride of two months, then killed himself after a marital quarrel. Mrs. King survived but is not expected to recover. The event follows a tense marriage as the couple argued during their short time together.
A fragment from a Chicago Record Herald item presents a stage dialogue where one speaker jokes that in marriage the wife will trail ten feet behind as a standard pecking order. The exchange hints at domestic dynamics and enduring affection.
In a dramatic exchange the pirate chief orders the band to arm themselves and prepare for a fierce action. The dialogue hints at a planned confrontation and a bold, chaotic response as the crew rallies under threat.
A reader notes that Marjorie, the rector’s wife, is seen as worldly yet capable of helping. She contemplates Easter weddings in his congregation, reflecting on social expectations amid a debate about influence and propriety in church life.
A street vendor hawks fruit while a Black man asks for 2 cents orange for his sick child. The vendor refuses, keeps 5 cents, and berates the man with moral hints about paradise. An exchange ends with the line I forgot to put a stamp.
Fragmentary OCR item recounts a young boy in a city encounter with a school gymnastic display and a confused exchange about a crime figure. Dialogue shows a misunderstanding of terms as a mother clarifies contrasts between a criminal and a counterfeiter.
An old ad promotes Cas carets Candy Cathartic tablets stamped CC claiming to repair digestion liver and bowels while you rest. The copy emphasizes night use and lists druggist availability at 10 cents per tablet.
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