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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1901
Page
2
Quality fleece pants and vests for ladies in white or unbleached at 25¢ per garment. All wool pants and vests in red white or gray priced at 1.00. Mercerized silk fleece garments at 0c per piece. Union suits for ladies and children range 2.50 to 8.10, in wool or cotton. Childrens ribbed fleece Union Suits at 20 each. Special Children’s Underwear Department promises fitting for any age.
Christian Advocate opines destiny leans on heart rather than intellect, asserting Charsetar shapes even intellectual fate. The remark emphasizes inner character as the key driver of life outcomes and calls for moral resolve.
Miscellaneous items record local notices and brief ads. Mentions lending on mortgages, illnesses, travel, land notes, depot construction, farm equipment for sale, land sales, household items, lost watch, and local personnel movements. Includes small legal fines, medical updates, and requests to buy or sell livestock and grain.
Nashville, Oct 17 Miss Theophile Noonan 11, daughter of Mr and Mrs Martin J Noonan, disappeared Tuesday afternoon. Friends suspect abduction and foul play citing no clues since. Acquaintances stunned by the mysterious disappearance and speak in high terms of the girl.
List of names for letters remaining in office for the week ending October 17, 1901 including Abernathy Johnson Baucom Jacobs Batson Kennedy Beauchamp Kittrell Carlee Lipscomb Daily Moore Daniel Lizan Moffat Dodson Hendrix Watson Hughes Watkins Harlow. Party callers advised letters advertised.
Fragmentary ad offering old papers for sale at Wyatte Cafe. Text mentions sale price per bundle and pickup, with garbled surrounding details.
The Columbia postmaster appointment to replace H. F. Farias near February prompts a lively race. Candidates include John W. Jackson and Dr. W. K. Sheddan with petitions urging Roosevelt to appoint them. Rumors tie L. A. Goslin and Hughes faction to the race as others consider entering.
An advertisement for American Field Fence invites customers to see Sarrentinio and Dovsox for prices. The line promotes contact for purchasing fencing and related materials.
Mary Duncan, a Black woman living in Ragan Row West End, was likely fatally wounded Tuesday night about 9 by a pistol shot through her left side. She told physicians she accidentally shot herself while fooling with a pistol, but police doubt the account. Neighbors heard three shots and one theory states Charley Duncan fired at a jealous man and hit his wife.
Prof. Sherwood of Cincinnati is hired by the Columbia band as instructor for three months. His services are paid by public subscription. The band meets and rehearses three times weekly and is progressing nicely.
On Saturday November 9 at W o’clock at the Columbia Stock Yards, L. P. Padgett offers about forty head of thoroughbred Jerseys for public sale to the highest bidder. Terms include twelve months credit with notes bearing good security and no interest.
Annie Rodgers alias Maud Williams was arrested in Nashville for trying to exchange 500 dollars in notes stolen last July from the Northern Express route at the Fourth National Bank. She was arraigned before Justice Hiram Vaughan and committed to jail in default of 1000 dollars bond. She claimed she came by the money honestly. No details of her past were found.
A local dealer advertises a thirty day sale offering surries and phaetons at cut prices due to overstock. Shoppers are urged to come quickly to secure best selections and discounts from the seller Bee Sarrerreecy and Dovsos.
Nashville Tenn Oct 16 F M Bowling and son J F Bowling were arraigned before United States Commissioner Farrell after Sumner County arrests on counterfeiting charges. Elder Bowling was bound over in 1000 dollars and jailed.
A garbled line lists school supplies including slates tablets pencils ink pen holders pencil boxes crayons paper and other items. The fragment suggests a marketplace or ad style inventory but it is incomplete and unreadable in parts.
Jar rubbers 4¢ dozen canine Wax Jelly Glasses 260 and Bie dozen Grate Varnish 1c to 20c 4 can Metal Polish 10c 140 to 00 a can Furniture Polish 10¢ a bottle Chair Seats 5c 80 Ile each Feather Dusters We to 40 c each Wool Dusters 10c to 24¢ each Nickel plated Stand Lamy with 10 inch shade complete only 1.50 Felt Window Shades all colors only 1c Cloth Window Shades all colors 25c to 49c We are still in the Wall Paper business and can please you in nice patterns from 8c to Lie per bolt Some men extenuate their own sins by the plea of hereditary weakness but they disallow the claim when set up by their own children Sorrow must be made an opportunity of service They who comfort others shall themselves be comforted Unto those who minister to others shall be Father himself minister Selected If a woman is not fit to manage the internal matters of a house she is fit for nothing Good housekeeping lies at the root of all the real ease and satisfaction in existence Harriet Prescott Spofford Marriage Licenses Leslie Renfro to Miss Ada Johnson B C Bailey to Mrs Mary Hightower A Mack Bink to Miss Lucie Howell We sell it Large stock on hand Send your wagon and get what you want Satterfield son If Rather Particular
A Boston Herald cartoon mocks a housewife seeking six logs two feet long five logs one foot long and seven logs for soil piers. The cabinet maker quip and a Senator Sorghum exchange appear, with a Washington Star note on posterity and votes in elections.
A Baltimore scene centers on a witty exchange as a clerk and two men speak of marriage life. One man jokes that the honeymoon is mostly blissful, yet he notes it becomes “DIL” after. The dialogue unfolds in a casual, humorous tone reflecting everyday city life.
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