Businessmen Observe Four Hour Afternoon Holiday During Fair
Columbia business houses including grocery, dry goods and hardware will close daily from 1 to 5 PM during the Fair, except Saturday for most. Banks signaled agreement to close these hours. hardware dealers allow no Saturday exception. Signatories include Etlett Harlan & Dodson Mitchell Ashley Hardware J P Street Co Frank G Cook Leach Hill Turner Johnson Miles Cook Harlan Evans H G Hill Co Anderson Foster Adkinson Brothers Maury National Bank Farmers Merchants Bar Phoenix National Bank.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia
Etlett, Harlan & Dodson
Mitchell-Ashley Hardware Company
8. A. Satterfield & Co
J. P. Street & Co
Frank G. Cook
Leach & Hill
Turner & Johnson
Miles Cook
Harlan & Evans
W. G. Harlan
H. E. Ritter
Chaffin Bros
H G. Hill & Co
Anderson& Foster
Adkisson Brothers
T. N. Figners
J.rosenthal
Maury National Bank
Farmers & Merchants Bar
Phoenix National Bank
The Gambler’s Day Is Done Decline of Public Gambling
The Philadelphia North American argues gambling once revered by all classes has faded under law and public sentiment. Richard Canfield’s Saratoga estate sells. states ban racing and betting, reducing private and public gambling to relics. The piece notes historic bets, social shifts, and the rise of moral enforcement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooke
White
Boman
America
Saratoga
New York
Richard Canfield
Chicago
St. Louis
Tennessee
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Philadelphia
North American
Court records from Mt Pleasant and Columbia
The report notes Johnny Chichole, labeled colored, was fined ten dollars and jailed after a Monday hearing in Mt Pleasant. Deputies Goad and Harmon raided a negro gambling den on Mace donia Sunday, seizing six bone rollers and charging costs. An unrelated ad promotes Dean's Reguleta as a mild laxative.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnny Chichole
Mt. Pleasant
Columbia
Goad
Turnkey Harmon
Macedonia
Ex-President Cleveland In Serious Health Haze
New York report Sept 17 states ex President Cleveland is gravely ill with Bright's disease and gout, with intestinal trouble complicating his condition. The illness has reached the lower limbs and worsened in recent days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Cleveland
Bright
London journalistic school for young women opens at Fleet Street
A new journalistic school for young women begins in Fleet Street London, connected with an actual publishing office issuing three magazines. Patronized by literary women including John Strange Winter and Mrs. O Connor, the program covers reporting editing make up and layout, with classes in shorthand French and secretarial duties. Thirty guineas covers the full course with extras for advertising writing shorthand and French.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fleet Street
London
Journalistic
John Strange Winter
Henry Reeves
P. O'Connor
Craige
Miss Cartwright
Nashville City Democratic committee names nominees
At a meeting of the City Democratic committee of Nashville yesterday the candidates receiving the highest number of votes in the primary of last week were declared the party nominees. There were no contests. The new committee organized by the election of former Representative Joby J. Straub as Chairman and Charles Polak as Secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City Democratic Committee of
Nashville
Joby J. Straub
Charles Polak
Two Nashville liquor cases heard on privilege tax bases
Two cases against liquor dealers arguing for one privilege tax per connected pair of barrooms were heard before County Court Clerk P A Shelton. Womack Bros and Bass faced evidence of dual buildings with separate entrances on Broadway and Second Avenue housing separate bars. Revenue Agent James Jetton argued the linked establishments operate as two barrooms under one license, while defendants claimed each site is a single business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nashville
Toan
P. A. Shelton
Clere
Womack Bros
W. F Bass
A. D. Pitagerald
Broadway
Second Avenue
Bass
Barthell
Syu
Price of Life in London Murder Plot Teased in Sketch
A London Sketch piece recalls ten pound notes buying a life in the capital and a dramatist proposing an elaborate scheme to remove a financier for 48 hours. The plan involved a lady, a yacht, and a crew, with the villain to be dumped overboard if questioned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom
London
Thames
Villians
Dentistry 2000 Years Old
Archaeologists note ancient dentistry in Rome and Teano. A skeleton of a woman yielded a gold mount with six teeth and flapped rims to steady loose teeth. The find supports the view that gold artificial teeth were used in antiquity and that dentists favored animal bovine teeth for hardness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Italy
Teano
London Globe
Dr Thomas Electric Oil Relief Claims Fast Pains
An OCR fragment touts Dr Thomas Electric Oil as stopping earache in two minutes and toothache burn or scald pain in five minutes. It claims relief for hoarseness muscle ache sore throat in hours, presenting a period style therapeutic boast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas
Paul the Apostle’s steadfast Christian life and gospel
Paul set a fearless example of living for truth and duty in a world of danger. He endured beatings and persecution, yet chose continued service over retreat, urging believers to follow Christ as guide, physician, and source of grace for all people.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Paul
China
Paul
Christ
Lord Shaftesbury
Jesus
God
Purge Impure Blood with Burdock Blood Hitters tonic
An advertisement proclaims many skin eruptions and ailments stem from impure blood and promotes Burdock Blood Hitters as a cleansing tonic. It claims the product clears the skin, improves vision, and sharpens thinking.
Interesting Homecomers Visit from North Texas
Mr. A J Goad and two sons Clarence and Tommy of Pruitton Ala visit Deputy Sheriff W J Goad and family among Home Comers. Dr J Martin of Dallas Texas, back home after 22 years, says towns and farms have improved though land still holds a familiar pull. A C and R B Neeley of Olney Texas, long residents of Glendale, praise good crops this year despite fewer rains, noting hills look like mountains in nostalgia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. J. Goad
Clarence
Tommy
Pruitton
Ala
W. J. Goad
Mr. Goad
Alabama
Dr. J. Martin
Dallas
Texas
Dr. Martin
Spring Hill
Drs. W. B
J. R. Martin
Columbia
A. C
R. B. Neeley
Olney
Glendale
A. C. Neeley
A. G. Neeley
Only County All White in the South, Dickinson County
A Richmond telegram reports Dickinson County Kansas as the only county in the South without a single Negro resident. The clerk cites Emery B. Chase of Dickenson County as confirming the lack of Black residents in the district, part of the Southwest region where race is not a political issue. Subscribe for the Herald.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Dickinson County
Clintwood
Emery B. Chase
Southwent
Dickinson
Fragmentary legal notice from 1907 Tennessee case in Columbia
Partial OCR of a legal notice concerns a court appearance and sentencing terms. It mentions the state of Tennessee, a case heard in Columbia, with a date in October 1907. The document lists Master A. X. Akin as clerk and EB Rayborn as solicitor for the county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wales
Tennesser
Columbia
A. X. Akin
Ang EB. Rayborn
Sol
Notice to non-residents in Greenlaw case at Columbia
The Clerk and Master lists W B Greenlaw and co defendants as non residents of Tennessee. They are ordered to appear within three weeks of the next Chancery Court term in Columbia to answer or demur to the bill, or it will be confessed against them. A copy of the order to run four weeks in the Columbia Herald.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia Herald
Akin
C. P. Hatcher
Ward Dawson
War Dawson
Wm. A. Long
Mamie Dawney Brett
Brett
Eugene Barrow
Thomas Barrow
Bettie Dawson
Will Dawson
Cora Eldridge
Rooney Jones
Mary Jones
Bessie Jones
Tennessee
Chancery Court
Columbia
A. N. Akin
Figuers, Solr
Non-Resident Notice for Columbia Chancery Court 1907
Clerk and Master at Columbia Tennessee issues non resident notice for War Dawson and others in a partition suit. Defendants must appear within the first three days of the next October term 1907 or have bill confessed. Publication ordered in the Columbia Herald for four weeks. A N Akin Clerk and Master. figures solicitor for complainant.
Non-Resident Notice in Tennessee Suit Against Hunter Brothers Milling
Affidavit shows Hunter Brothers Milling Co violated Tennessee pure food laws. An attachment was levied since the defendant resides out of state. Publication required for four consecutive weeks. Defendant must appear October 12, 1907, at the office of J P R H Guest in Columbia Tennessee to answer or risk a default.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hunter Brothers Milling Co
Pee R.A. Guest
J. of P
Hunter Brothers Milling
Tennessee
Columbia Herald
R. H. Guest
J. P
Columbia
P. Paice Owen
Soothing Dean's Ointment Praised by Columbia Resident
Miss Josie Brooks of Columbia reports relief from facial itching and irritation after using Doan's Ointment. She overheated and found the ointment calmed the rash, purchased locally from Adams & Martin's drug store, with Foster Milburn Co. as U.S. agents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean
Ody
Pean
Columbia
Josie Brooks
Highth
Buich
Alwys
Adams & Martin
Doan
Foster-Milburn Co
New York
U. States
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Cherohai Ephesus
The
Herald
Columbia Tenn
Tae Davis Grigsby
J. D. Benderman
John Thompson
State of Tennesse
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