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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1905
Page
4
The column notes a Memphis saloon massacre and Carmack Taylor race fervor as Tennessee politics intensifies. It argues against subsidies to fairs and rail trusts while praising bold editorial stance and warning against postal censorship and political manipulation. It also critiques railway and canal debates and church light outages amid a tense public mood.
A late spring social in the city center featured Mrs J M Dedman and Mr J Akin hosting a Musical Promenade at the Bside venue. Pink decorations, candle clusters, and an extensive program by Rettiers orchestra and Miss Cornelia Janes drew about 100 guests, with punch, bonbons, and a light menu.
Editor Herald notes a prior Herald item on the consolidation of the Thirty eighth Tennessee Infantry into four regiments. It honors Maury County and the 48th Tennessee for assigning Will Polk as Major, notes his prior rank as sergeant major of the 3rd Tennessee until Sept. 1, 1862, and records his later appointment as adjutant of the 48th Tennessee. Jo Love Calleoka Lenn.
Summarizes a column of town news detailing various incidents and commerce. Seo Young fur shop price cuts, plumbing moves, court house tasks, Hot Springs treatments, repainting, grain engine repairs, horse sales, mail box painting, canvass orders, studio painting, land deals near Nashville, mules sold, Pythian initiation, telegraph poles, elevator belt patent, display windows, church carpet, serenade, new police uniforms, horses sold, grading machinery, land purchases, ice cream cabinet, depot fence completion, and fence construction details.
A Tennessean report confirms Burt Gordon, 17, of Summertown, a former Berry picker helper for Horace Rainey, drowned in Duck River near Columbia after a rope swing. Rescue attempts failed until the body surfaced at 5:30 pm, brought to shore by two colored men, and taken to Wick Hanson’s home in Maevadonia.
A brief classified style notice appears to resemble a job or request for rye straw. Mentions McCLixatan Hannass and Cottam Uo in fragmented form. Readable fragments imply procurement or instruction but lack clear details or contacts.
McKennon, Anderson & Foster advertise late season sale pricing on men’s suits in black navy green and brown plus a range of black dress fabrics linen look finishes and silks. Prices run from 7.90 to 17.90 for suits and 0.10 to 1.00 per yard for fabrics with multiple items on sale Saturday and Monday at the specified locations.
A Saturday afternoon cyclone struck the Bushart area three miles southwest of Dresden Tennessee. The path measured about three-fourths mile by twenty five yards, tearing corn and buildings. No human injuries reported. one horse and several cattle died, two mules crippled. Timber blown down, a rail fence destroyed, and green leaves rained over Dresden after the funnel cloud passed. The house of Bates Bills toppled, roofs ripped, and overall damage extensive.
The Equitable Life Assurance Society is accused of paying 5,000 to fourteen men amid broader claims that numerous others received large incomes from the life insurance side without showing accountability.
The Grand Lodge Knights of Pythias met in Knoxville on May 17 and created a Board of Trustees for the widow's and orphans fund. Trustees named from East to West Tennessee include W. T. Kennedy and L. M. Pindell, with M. Cherry Jr. and A. H. Sanders for Middle Tennessee, and Kirk Allen and R. S. McClaren for West Tennessee. The Grand Chancellor and other ex-officio members join the board. Nashville will host the next meeting, with B. J. Dillard and W. A. Owen named Supreme Representatives.
Misa Lizte Hendrix of Lewisburg travels through Columbia en route to Guam for her marriage to Henry Davis a former Tennessean, to be officiated by the island’s overseer. The couple will then proceed to the Philippine Islands with Wm. Cowden, Hendrix’s uncle, accompanying to San Francisco.
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