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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1896
Page
3
Local notes mention various ads and happenings in Bristol Morristown and nearby towns. References include Tuckson's and Jackson's coffee brands, Chase & Sanborn's products, the Dyer Journal entering its third year, and a proposed enlarged newspaper. Reports cover travel increases, illicit distilleries, and advertising value.
Local Bristol items report Democratic voters urged to hold district meetings next Saturday to elect delegates for the county convention in Jonesboro, with the state convention to follow. Also notes a wedding trip, a teacher Mrs Hassle Brown’s death, water arrears notices, and flood damage across East Tennessee and Virginia. The piece includes church convention promotions and a medicinal advertisement.
The Johnson City board of mayor and aldermen held an organizational session voting for officers and approving committees. Republicans solidly backed caucus nominees. A May chief of police election was postponed. A retrenchment resolution proposed cutting salaries, including mayor to 100 and aldermen to 500, with further cuts to officials and education staff.
Spring chickens sell for 35 and 40 cents each and a 60 egg incubator is advertised for 86 cents. The Ladies Aid Society of the M E Church South announces an auction in the Opera House Friday evening with a silk quilt prize and a spelling contest led by Miss Mary Carr and Mr DE H Lyle. Refreshments will be offered for a small sum.
The Bee Hive crowd roared as Chattanooga claimed top honors in a fierce display of plowing skill. Competitors from nearby towns watched while the team demonstrated speed, precision, and teamwork that set a new standard for the event.
Fragmentary OCR text discusses a cooker product, a dinner suggestion, and a request to send for a descriptive circuit. It mentions Mrs. Cy Hr. Liyle of Johnson City with a No. 3 Cooker and a general call to subscribe for Tx Comer. No coherent news item or outcome is identifiable.
Records show the Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Society to be held at Pres byterian General Abril and Taursday at 1:30 P M with Devotional exercises led by President Florence Stephenson of Asheville NC. Delegates report, committee work, and musical solos mark the session with notices from Yokohama, Siam, and China sections.
Wm H Wheeler a prominent Attars New York contractor long smoker feared a sharp throat illness. He used Dr Hale's Household Ointment, applied inside his throat several times daily, and after a few weeks the throat improved greatly. He praised the remedy as a wonderful cure and recommended its use.
Study law at home with systematic courses and experienced teachers. Excellent legal education at a nominal cost. Send stamp for catalogue and pamphlet of public official endorsements. Chicago Correspondence School of Law 720-722 Dearborn Street, Chicago Ill.
By mortgage with power of sale from Thomas Gurst and Julia Garat to United States Savings Loan and Building Company, sale set for April 15, 18__, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm at the Jonesboro courthouse door. Property: lot of land in Johnson City on Maple Street, described as lots 117 and 119 in the Johnson City Real Estate Company's addition, with specified boundary lines and a 151 foot frontage to Maple Street. Debt to be paid in full. sale for cash. case listed in Washington County Tennessee records.
A contest offers cash prizes for forming the most words from the letters in MO Xox Sheps GROW using letters no more times than shown. Submit a numbered list of words, include name, address, and six two cent stamps, with seed catalog details and prize rules.
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