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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1898
Page
1
A Georgia resident cites Hood's Sarsaparilla and Hood's Pills as curing catarrh head pains sour stomach rheumatism indigestion and dizziness. The signer says improved appetite strength and a grandchild’s health after treatment.
A long critique of a New York Tribune vaccination article argues against vaccination skepticism. The writer cites 1762 Boston smallpox data, rejects inoculation terminology, and explains incubation, yeast metaphor in disease, and the gun quarantine era. A case study in Johnson City shows vaccine success and social backlash.
An advertisement touts Aurytylene Gas offering self owned plants giving four times more light at half the cost for churches stores factories hotels and homes. It claims safety versus kerosene and gas and notes approval by boards of underwriters across the United States and seeks first class agents with catalogue and prices. A separate notice promotes Dr Bell’s Pine Tar Honey as a reliable sore throat and cough remedy sold by modern druggists.
Undertakers call the situation grave while lawyers push for stronger measures and banks accept indemnity. The army, citizens, and professions voice readiness to support or defend, with astronomers and the Signal Service Bureau offering war weather forecasts amid tension.
The item notes spring fever myths and a Peruna testimonial from Crafton Ky. It reports the Queen Regent’s $10,000 hex purchase for Madrid navy benefit and a lung remedy claim from Dr Belu. It covers meteor events, quotes on employment, and a two year old whoaled whooping cough helped by Chamberlain’s remedy. It ends with Johnson City road improvement prizes of 26 dollars and calls for overseer applications before April 19 and prize decisions in October.
The Southern Ry and Hamby line run a daytime and a daylight sleeper service between Nashville and New York via Chattanooga Knoxville and Asheville with elegant Pullman drawing room buffet sleeping cars. First train leaves Nashville at 10 10 p m reaching New York 12 48 p m the other route departs 1 00 p m arriving New York about midnight.
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