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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1901
Page
7
Pure unfermented grape juice offered at Alcorn's in bottles and at the soda fountain. Available as Grape Milk Grape Phosphate Grape Sherbet Grape Soda or Grape Ice. Also sold as a take home bottle. A pour of one part juice to three or four parts ice water creates a pleasant drink.
Obituary for Mr. Geo Fergaer en aged citizen who died May 1 after a service at home. Community notes praise Clyde Gray who died May 6, with a memorial from Theta School and Phi lomathian Society. Local events include Children's Day planning, marriages, harvest prospects, farm news, church meetings, and visiting relatives.
Special to the Herald Mt Pleasant May 16 Miss Fannie Hayes returns home from Franklin and West Harpeth Mr Wiley Harrisle builds a frame dwelling on North Main Street Miss Anni Hill returns to Spring Hill from Mt Pleasant Mrs Frieming near Porters church is critically ill and not expected to live
Obituary notes the death of James W. Jones on May 1 at his Anderson Beach home after a lengthy illness with consumption. He was 30, raised in Goshen, lived at Water Valley, and leaves a wife, three children, parents, siblings, and many friends. Funeral at Goshen Methodist Church with Rev. Henderson and Gray, burial at Water Valley cemetery.
On Wednesday in Bates court Mary Webster colored faced a charge of using profane language prompted by Ollie Hw colored. She accused Harrin of attempting to hoodoo her home by scattering powder. she would not walk on any place Harris had spattered the pizen. Judge Hayes dismissed the case.
Special to the Herald from Mumpondsville Kentucky reports the Hart County Deposit Bank building was dynamited at 2 o'clock in the morning. The structure was badly damaged and the vault broken open, with several thousand dollars stolen. The robbers fled the scene.
Tennessee board report reveals inmate counts across state and federal facilities, with ages, nativity, education, and previous occupations. Data show 1,744 prisoners statewide, 1,505 state convicts, and 230 federal inmates, plus detailed occupation patterns and literacy levels among the prisoners.
Nathan Caruthers, a black man condemned for murder in Memphis, attempted to kill himself in the jail in Jackson with suspenders, a rope, and a bed-post. He was found by the sheriff near death.
A large land auction led by Mr. A Harris realized strong prices across 58 lots near the Bigbyville Pike and Columbia Avenue. Purchasers included Dr. J. G. Williamson, Mrs. N. B. Sheppard, W. F. Embry, and others, with prices ranging from 12 to 170 per lot. The event highlighted Harris’s claim that advertising drives profits.
Mrs. McKinley’s condition is described as serious by attending physicians Drs. Riney and Hirschfelder with another doctor consulted. If she survives, she may not leave San Francisco by next Monday, affecting the presidential party stay. Secretary Cortelyou offered no new information beyond the ten o’clock bulletin. The president’s Northwestern trip is abandoned as a result.
A fragment from a religious column warns that worldly wealth harms spiritual leadership and asks whether preaching is hampered by clerical concerns over money. The piece argues that true riches come when hearts seek virtue over material gain.
On the Cumberland Mountains at 2,200 feet above sea level Monteagle offers a cool summer resort opening July through August. The 1901 season promises expanded programs with summer schools and a School of Expression, plus lectures and entertainments. Reduced travel rates and accommodations are advertised.
A decree summons a June sale of two parcels in Marshall and Maury counties. The first tract lies in the Tenth district Marshall County, with bounds described from H Martin heirs line to Tarpley road, totaling about acres. The second tract in the Tenth district Marshall and Twenty-fifth district Maury County totals about acres, bounded by Joel Shire and L Secrest lines. Sale on credit with notes and default conditions stated. Sale date June 2 at the Court House door in Columbia Tennessee.
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