The Comet Weekly Newspaper Notice
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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1894
Page
4
Notion of Removal Moves to Market Street Building
Tue Comer relocates to the How and Wedge building on Market Street with Luan Street noted in the report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
How & Wedge
Market Street
Luan Street
Comer Establishes Downtown Office at Lyle & Co Book Store
The Comer opens a downtown office at Lyle & Co book store beside the post office to handle advertisements orders for job work subscriptions. Patrons may submit copy there for prompt attention and faster service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Comer Haw
Lyle & Co's
Newspaper Offers and Rates for Cash in Advance
An offer lists numerous periodicals available by prepaid cash, including The North American Review The Forum The New Era The America Farmer and Farm News The Home Journal New York World Weekly and New York Herald among others with specified prices and delivery terms. The note appears to be a promotional or catalog of subscriptions with varying prices and formats for a Tuesday order window.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tur Gomrr
Fieri
Tue Comey
The
North American Review
Forum
Jasence
America Farmer and Farm News
Womack
Teunrutts
Courier-Jourist
Johnson City political jabs mix with reform chatter
The column rails at Gov Waite joining Coxey's army and questions municipal control by Republicans. It notes Trantmay’s tough experiment, Tom Rerp’s regret over Crisp for senator, and criticizes aldermen promises. Old Artel Campbell is still revered though out of office, while Hour pushes a weekly paper to spite Gibson. The piece mocks the police and hints at tax office corruption.
Political Myths and the City’s Salary Squabbles
Juper GC. Cuanpter, a lifelong Republican and capable lawyer, was passed over for the city attorney post in favor of a prohibitionist. The mayor, a reformer, seeks to trim police and recorder salaries while defending his own pay, a stark example of politics shaped by entrenched interests. The narrator suggests the judge may have aimed to correct Democratic board shortcomings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Juper GC. Cuanpter
Aja Baba Forty Certificates Pit Digging Legend
Aja Baba, linked to the Forty Certificates, is described as digging four pits. The lines imply he dug deeply for his brother, with phrases hinting at early ritual or symbolic work. The text blends fragmented phrases about a pit, a tower, and guilt or sin.
Gurtin for Chancellor Nomination Urged in 17th Division
A local Advocate urges the Democrats to back Judge Thomas Curtin of Bristol for Chancellor in the 17th Chancery Division. He argues Curtin's judicial mind and experience fit the post, and that his Sullivan County popularity could win Republican votes. The piece notes Curtin’s possible acceptance if nominated and cites regional newspaper goodwill toward The Times.
Lynching of English at Bakersville Stuns Local Folks
A mob of about two hundred seized Holland English from the Bakersville jail early Sunday morning and hanged him to a tree outside town after his wife’s brutal murder near Cranberry. The case ties to a failed divorce, a suspected poisoning plot, and a sister of W. W. Carrell living in Johnson City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bakersville
Holland
English
Sher
Cranberry
Mra. English
Villian
Tea River
Orinberry
Gillian
W. W. Carrell
Johnson City
Rioting Surges as Pennsylvania Coke Strike Grips Region
The coke strike in Uxiontown Pennsylvania escalates with half the plants idle and rioting reported across Fayette and Westmoreland counties. Deputies are sworn in to protect property as foreigners rally to support the strike, signaling potential widespread disorder and a historic flare up in the coke region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania
Uxiontown
Fayette
Westmoreland
Winchester
Mrs Jeannette Gump Dies at 65 in Philadelphia Visit
Mrs Jeannette Gump wife of Mr S A Gump died suddenly at her Fifth Street home at 11 30 last night heart disease blamed Strangulation listed as cause age sixty five she leaves three children A S Gump Mrs N Sera and Miss Helen Gump all of the city Funeral plans not yet made remains to be sent to Philadelphia with husband and son for interment
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gump
Brrtero
Jeannette Gump
S A. Gump
Fifth Street
Deafness Cure Claim by Constitutional Remedies
An advertisement asserts deafness derives from an inflamed Eustachian tube and claims Hall's Catarrh Cure can restore hearing. It promises $100 for any deafness case not cured by the remedy, urging readers to send for free circulars from J. Cheney & Co of Toledo, sold by druggists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Democratic Convention Call for Jonesboro Tennessee
The Democratic party of Washington county calls a meeting at the Jonesboro court house at 1 o clock on April 9 to select delegates to the State judicial convention in Nashville on April 18 1894 to nominate five judges for the supreme court term. District committeemen and county executive committee urged to attend. G W Wituert chairman J H Bown sec Jonesboro March 26 1804. If you want any job work done call on Hodges Belover Watauga Bank Ripans Linhair for a fat sicmaob.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Democratic Party
Washington County
Court House
Jonesboro
State Judicial Convention
Nashville
Suureme Court
Democratic County Executive Committee
Hodges & Bel Over Watauga Bank
Cosmopolitan Magazine notes and Napoleonic manuscript discovery
Literary notes discuss Kingsley and wolves, then Electric Power March reviews convention papers on polyphase currents and canal locomotion. A Cosmopolitan reveal describes Napoleon Bonaparte as the author of a Corsican tale, a manuscript found after a century and sold through Libri to Lord Ashburnham, now titillating American readers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Nichols
Cornell University
Louis Bell
Julius Sachs
Cosmopolitan Magazine
Cosmopolitan
Magneas
Per
Harrison
Blaine
Gladriane
Bismarck
Emperor William
Leo XIII
Aless
Bismarclk
Gladstone
William
Napoleon Bonaparte
America
Frederic Masson
Napoleon
Cardinal Fesch
Lyons
Cardinal Each
Abbe Lyonnet
Libri
Academy
Lord Ashburnham
Ashburnham Castle
The
London
Paris
Special Club Arrangement With Nashville Weekly Banner
Advertisement notes a joint offer with the Nashville Weekly Banner. The Banner, a Wednesday weekly, provides foreign national state and local news plus miscellaneous articles. It positions itself as a nonpartisan information medium and offers the Weekly Banner for one dollar under the special club arrangement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nashville Weekly Banner
South
Week Banner
Also Mentioned on This Page
Down Town
Gov. Waite
Coxey
Corporation
Gov. Tratmay
Tom Rerp
Crisp
Gov
Northen
Mar Mawr
Recorder
Artel Campbell
Tousa. Hour
Congress
Gibson
Angel Police
Jernaalem
Recorder’s Office
Lamb
Book of Life
Aja Baba
Recientes Noticias Y Novededer
Felicitamada
Colva
Ius Cruzer
New Mexico
Tenn
the Times
Times
J. A. White
Citizens Es
Main
Spring
Moersell
New York
Brownlow
Col. Dickinson
Johnson
Broadway
G. W. Wituert
Joux H. Bown
Ripans
Lanhier
Darwin
Charles Kingsley
Kingsley
Reynard
Louisa Robinson
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