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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1909
Page
3
A Col Sneed monologue advises wives to keep husbands home and content. He argues a cigar at home aids harmony and cautions against turning husbands into angels, urging the daughter to let Bill smoke at home and feel valued. He uses homely humor to stress domestic balance and restraint.
The speaker urges choosing the church as the main company on life’s highway. He argues life moves in two directions and one benefits from fellowship, especially for virtue or vice, urging not to skip church and to avoid solitary Sunday routines.
In St Louis on October 26, Nanette Lillard confessed she laced candy with strychnine bought by her own hand to hurt rival Mrs. Maury Ridley, a widow believed to have won her husband. Ridley was jailed on an attempted murder charge but later released as Lillard revealed the ruse and motive centered on reclaiming her husband.
The quoted passage shows a speaker recalling a confrontation with Bobby who tells of his wife accusing the narrator of poisoning her. The exchange hints at a larger plot or personal conflict surrounding trust and betrayal.
This message links Niagara river dangers to careless boating and warns that backache signals kidney trouble. It promotes Electric Bitters as a remedy with a testimonial from J. R. Blankenship of Belk Tennessee and notes limited stock at GEO. 8, ALCORN'S.
Indianapolis police say four dynamite blasts Sunday night targeting Albert Van Spreckelsen’s projects were part of a planned conspiracy by anti non union foes. No arrests yet. exposure expected. Damaged sites include a mystic shrine temple theater and non union trades offices. Vehicles and horses were destroyed in one blast.
Advertisements misstated the Christman Sons piano representatives. They will be in Columbia through Monday, conducting business all day next Monday at the old Harlan grocery store on the square.
Frederick Gebhardt, a married man using the name Otto Mueller, confessed to killing Anna Luther whose bleached remains were found near Islip after a long pursuit. He described the sequence from meeting in 1907 to shooting in Bay Shore and throwing the revolver from a train, denying motive of money and revealing a desire to return to his first wife and child.
The ashes of Mrs J Addison Hayes, famed as the Daughter of the Confederacy, travel from Colorado Springs to Richmond for interment beside Jefferson Davis and his wife. The urn was escorted by her husband Jefferson Hayes Davis and their children, with cremation in Denver and temporary interment in Colorado Springs. Services will be held at St Paul’s Cathedral in Richmond Friday with public homage, and interment to follow at Hollywood Cemetery.
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