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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1903
Page
6
For 20 years we have sold this make of Vehicles and assert it is the best work for the money. All Kauffman Vehicles share high grade materials and proper assembly with careful design and finish. The longer you use one the more you will be convinced. We offer a larger stock of kinds and qualities and promise value, plus our own rubber tires and competitive pricing.
Dr T A Wharton declares church discipline a universal dead letter and urges enforcement or repeal of church laws. He cites lack of discipline across churches, notes difficulties, and calls for a coordinated reform to revive spiritual power. Also reports Prince Victor Dhuleep Singh’s financial troubles and Capt Beale’s duty trip through Tennessee National Guard inspections.
A garbled 19th century notice describes a bicycle mishap and a failed remedy lasting four years before Buckien's Arnica salve cured. The ad touts Woldeidge's Drug Store as the source of the treatment and promotes burn, scald, and pile cures.
Louis Dabney, a well known railroad man and former Columbia resident, was reported critically ill Sunday evening at Petersburg after a stroke of paralysis. For years he worked as an engineer on the N C & St L and L N railroads and lived in Columbia, where he had many friends.
Howard Institute, led by Dunnavant at pitcher, loses 12 to 2 to Ford & Williams of Columbia. Henry Wilburn dominates for PF & W with twelve strikeouts. Hayes and Bratton star on defense for Ford & Williams as both teams mix errors and unearned runs in a high-spirited, youth-filled contest.
Citizens prompted an inspection of Mt Pleasant pike led by Judge Gordon Catlen and the sand commissioners. They found the road from Dukes store to Mt Pleasant inadequate and called for macadamizing. The bridge over Sugar Fork near Richey was deemed unsound and beyond repair.
John C Dexter Lodge Knights of Pythias held a Thursday night meeting at Phintias castle hall. Three candidates were initiated into the first rank. A draft by laws for the new lodge was presented. The Dexter lodge will meet in its lodge room South Columbia over A Shaws store, rooms secured by the lodge.
B F Bass of Fremont North Carolina writes he was severely sick with kidney trouble and relieved after using Kleetie Bitters. He reports improvement and eventual cure, noting neighbors also found relief from rheumatism neuralgia liver and kidney debility after taking the remedy at W P Woldridge's drug store.
Sam Slog a Chinese laundryman from Atlanta has located in Columbia and established a laundry in the basement of the Bethel House, signaling a new business venture in the area.
A fire in a Ripley Tennessee livery stable on the southeast corner of the public square began this morning and quickly engulfed almost the entire south side of the square before control was gained. Only the Ripley bank and a small three story building survived.
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