Stoves Sale This Week Dwindles After Holiday Rush
Limited stock remains as a five day sale continues. Store urges customers to act quickly for best selection on stoves and related heating units before shelves run dry.
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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1902
Page
8
Limited stock remains as a five day sale continues. Store urges customers to act quickly for best selection on stoves and related heating units before shelves run dry.
Practical tips from American Queen on extending garment life and freshness. Air woolens and dark colors, brush and air out of doors, then store in a dark closet for a week or two. Rotate outfits with multiple sets to reduce odors and wear, noting improved wearability and scent.
Lady Henry Somerset, president of the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union, arrived aboard the Minneapolis from London to attend the next WCTU convention and observe American efforts to reclaim inebriates. She notes England's progress and enthusiasm for cross Atlantic methods. The piece also mentions the U.S. president's improving condition following medical updates from Surgeon Generals Rixey and Orrick.
Two Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe freight trains collided head on near Ardmore on Monday. Two engineers from Gainesville, Texas, John Conway and J M Loftus, died. Injured include conductor Thomas Vaughan, bridge foreman A E Harvey, and several others. cause given as misunderstanding of orders. Trains carried wheat and cotton. wreck details and names from Ardmore dispatch.
In St Louis on October 7 a jury in Judge Ryans court convicted Snyder of bribery and sentenced him to five years imprisonment. The first vote reportedly showed guilt and the state’s evidence suggested Snyder was not Missouri resident within the statute. State costs near 3000 dollars, witness mileage and fees added, total nearly 5000 dollars. Also reported. Viceroy of Nanking Liv Kun Yi is dead. In Chicago Carl Moeller, longtime Chicago board of trade member, died at 63 after a paralytic illness.
A Chicago area feature argues that saving waste in factories boosts profits across industries. It details how scraps, remnants, and by products from stockyards, soap makers, dye works, and coal tar distillation create multi‑million dollar margins, supporting competition against lower‑cost imports.
Albert Runge a 37 year old St Charles resident and former Temp's brewery employee vanished after crossing a ferry from St Charles to the Missouri river opposite bank. His hat and coat were found on the boat J. P. Gates. Dr. Bruere says Runge faced nervous trouble and fears for his father's death by consumption. Franklin Becker, Runge friend, had recently died by suicide.
London reports that Gen Corbin Gen Young and John W Gates faced English speed restrictions as police stopped their car twice, once in Windsor and again near Brighton. The vehicle, lent by Sir Thomas Lipton to Mr Fintes, drew the general’s ire as stop watches allegedly outweighed drivers’ claims of not exceeding 12 miles per hour.
A scattered collection reports Nashville planning an opera house, Emile Zola’s funeral in Paris, Venice church steeple concerns, a Colorado sheriff seizing a Pullman car to collect tax, and St Louis robberies and deaths. It notes Henry Hermenz Jr a real estate man dies of apoplexy, a Cleve land county Oklahoma farmer killed by a freight car, a Jasper county Missouri farmer’s fourth alfalfa harvest, Deba predicts coal strike after Forerunner events, Mrs John H Gear dies in Burlington born 1834.
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