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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1892
Page
4
BACIE student acts as Hook-keeper merchant and trader handling buying selling calculations and legal forms. Courses cover practical book-keeping merchandising finance commercial law and mercantile correspondence with lectures by city officials and lawyers.
The Comet solicits votes to choose a popular district schoolgirl who will receive a year at a Southern female seminary in Florence Alabama starting September 15, 1892. The winner's expenses including tuition and board will be paid, votes published weekly, and a chance at a prize valued near two hundred dollars.
Gov Buchanan pardoned John and Cicero Poe for a 1888 murder in Franklin county with life sentences. Gov Taylor commuted to twenty years. Petition signed by trial jury, prosecuting attorney, jurors and 800 citizens. Also, Frank Pate, ex‑Confederate soldier and former prosecuting attorney at West Point, Mississippi, died by suicide near Clarksville after despondency.
Train and travel offers promote reduced rates for the Confederate Veterans Reunion on April 8 in New Orleans Louisiana. Call Hougkey aynbe at your station or DG Holwarde GJ AQ and G for details.
Swinton Medical Co promotes Swinton’s Pacific for dyspepsia claiming a universal dose and accompanying dietary guidance. The letter touts the remedy as a complete treatment with a medical treatise and dietary directions, offering mail order samples and distribution through pharmacists.
Weather from April 6 reports heavy mud on a Union Pacific express due to clouds and showers. A second cyclone in Kansas and Missouri brings record rainfall flooding streets. At Ogallala cattle drift to the Platte River, many die of exposure. In Nasayiinn a reward of 5000 dollars is offered for arrest and conviction of train robbers on the Georgia Pacific near Irondale Alabama March 10.
Ciicado April 6. The Illinois State building at the World’s Fair Grounds was struck by a small cyclone. The tower and half of memorial hall were wrecked. Loss estimated between 10,000 and 20,000. Two policemen nearby were killed.
An outbreak of smallpox is reported in western Davidson county with 200 cases in Diser City and widespread isolation measures. A gold medal piano contest at Johe's Opera House features Dora Cargille and others tonight. Davidson county court approves 2500 for a free kindergarten program, denying a Davidson world’s fair exhibit.
W H Moore and Miss Matrice Blankenship, both of Jackson, were married in Nasuyinie on April 6. The ceremony carried a hint of romance as society cards had announced a marriage between the bride and a wealthy Bowling Green, Kentucky gentleman.
An advertisement touts direct sales from manufacturers to consumers to avoid retailer profits. It claims three or four middlemen add costs, promising commission direct sales, special drives on hosiery, and bulk pricing with various discount offers for ladies’ hosiery and related goods.
Special inducements offered by railroad companies to attendees of the first annual stockholders meeting from April 13 to 17. Speakers include Hon. Robt P Porter and Senators Carlisle Harris Hansborough among other esteemed guests. A band will play throughout and a diss daily. Come and view the resources and natural advantages of the Watauga Valley.
A garbled notice refers to B. White and J.T. Piers and others connected with a Johnson County matter. It mentions debts, collection actions, and a warning from The Warner with implied legal or financial proceedings. The text is unclear on concrete events.
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