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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1895
Page
4
A long promotional piece discusses Compound Oxygen as a base enriched with oxygen, magnetized and combined for transport. It touts cures for catarrh consumption asthma and other ailments, cites 60 000 cases, and names Starkey Palen as practitioners with offices in Philadelphia and San Francisco.
A probate era courtroom anecdote shows a sharp cross examination where an attorney questions a witness who swore to a killing. The judge prompts the attorney to present impeachment evidence, highlighting the absence of a bullet’s flight or a fired trigger. The piece closes with an unrelated medical advertisement and local crop notes.
The sheriff announces an April 10 1895 sale at the Johnson City opera house to pay a judgment against W P Cooper Linville for 24 dollars 35 cents plus costs. The real estate includes a house and lot on Graveyard Hill adjoining the cemetery in Washington County Tennessee. The sale is to satisfy the debt and mortgage. payment in cash before sale may stop the sale. Also includes an ad for Bacco Cure tobacco habit treatment claiming a guaranteed cure with three boxes and a refund option.
A Nashville notice highlights Dr Matthew Henry Kalhook native of Norfolk and renowned in Southern medicine. It cites his worldwide travels, notable Neuralgia therapy, and extensive works including a major 25 volume treatise on the Monetive principle of Get SEMINUM. The piece recalls his Hot Springs, Arkansas cures and high reputation among physicians.
The editor invites teachers countywide to submit educational pieces on geology agriculture mathematics science of teaching and school interests. Contributors should mail works to Johnson City before Saturday publication. Readers are asked to share this appeal with local educators to advance knowledge.
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