Testimonial Funeral Oration for Senator Robert L. Taylor
Rev. W B Neighbors delivers a funeral oration honoring Senator Robert L Taylor highlighting his deep home ties to Happy Valley and his tender relations with African Americans. The speaker portrays Taylor as a man of rare gifts including friendship, music of the soul, simple speech, charitable heart, and devotion to church and family. He recalls personal anecdotes of kindness, humility, and public service, concluding that Taylor’s life complete and noble, worthy of praise.
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Knoxville Sentinel
W. B. Neighbors
Sullins College
Histol
Robert L. Taylor
Neighbors
Senator Taylor
O Benalor
Ayror Ion Elie Savescrib
Taylor
Rome
Flo
Rastus
Epraham
Rufus
Watauga
Bob
Lord
Darkey
Bob’ Taylor
Darkies
Happy Valley
Arkansas
de Long Rice
Dodge
Bob ‘Taylor
Bob Taylor
Jim
Tfever
Robin's Roost
Sullivan County
House of God
Knoxville
Church Street Church
Hendrix
Jesus
Dickens
Curiosity Shop
Nell
Tennessee
Down's Kidney Pills Promoted In Local Ad
Johnson City resident Mrs. B C Cross testifies that Down's Kidney Pills cured her kidney trouble causing dizziness backache and fatigue. The ad states the pills treat kidney disorders with a 50 cent price and lists Foster Milburn Co as U S agents under the Dean's brand.
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Down
Johnson City
C. Cross
Maio St
Tenn
Whitehouse Drug Co
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
New York
United States
Dean
Editorial Tales From The Comet From 1884 Nashville to Washington
A satirical column recalls a lightning strike on a Nashville brewery chimney cited by the World and mocks Rep stumping by Bob Ingersoll. It notes the Comet family’s trip, bachelor encounters, a monogamy lecture, and a promised reunion, ending with All quiet along the Potomac tonight.
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Nashville
the World
Johnson City
Watauga
Tom Swingles
Potomac
The Strain of Life and Health Remedies
A promotional notice extols health and strength as keys to success. It promotes Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a guaranteed regulator for constipation dyspepsia liver trouble and flatulency and offers a free sample by mail from the Pepsin Syrup Co Monticello Illinois. The product is sold by druggists at a stated price.
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Fife
Dr.Caldwell
Pepsin
Ine
Pepsin Syrup Co
Caldwell Ridge
Monticello
Hil
New Courthouse Planned for Jonesboro Tennessee
At a county court session the highway commission report on the Greene to Sullivan county line project was unanimously endorsed. On Thursday the decision was made to build a new courthouse on the old site with cost not to exceed $50,000, and county warrants to finance the sale will be issued. Boumane Bros. of Knoxville prepared the plans.
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Teanemer
Washington
Jonesboro
Tenn
The
Highway Commission
Greene
Sullivan County
Boumane Bros
Kooxville
Miss Rhea Hunter Wins New York Singing Distinction
Miss Rhea Hunter of Johnson City won a prominent choir position in New York after a singing test among 150 girls. She studies under Frederick K. Martin and plans to perform at the Waldorf Astoria while continuing voice lessons. Her homecoming visit is set for mid month with a return to New York in May.
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Rhea Hunter
R.C. Hunter
Johnson City
Jerome Hanstine
Virginia Intermonte College
New York City
Frederick K. Maretin
Miss Hunter
New York
Waldorf-Astoria
Herald-Courier
Almost A Miracle Cures Dreadful Cough With New Dishes
A Clarendon Texas resident touts Dr King s New Discovery as a sudden cure for a severe cough that worried his family about consumption. He reports the patient became well and gained weight after using the remedy, which is sold by H C Millers with a trial bottle offered free.
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W. B. Holeclaw
Clarendon
Texas
Hi Uch
Dr. King
H. C. Miller's
Sullins College Girls Visit Soldiers' Home
Thirty four Sullins College students from Bristol visited the Soldiers' Home on Saturday. Chaperones included Mrs Veata P Kirkpatrick Miss Harriet Fillinger James Means and Miss Marty Cummings. A special concert a grounds and buildings tour led by Gov John P Smith and a reception at the state normal formed the day’s highlights.
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Bullins College
Bristol
Johnson
City
Veata P. Kirkpatrick
Harriet Fillinger
James ©. Means
Marty Cummings
Soldiers’ Home
John P. Smith
State Normal
Hooper appoints Newell Randers U S senator for Taylor term
Gov Ben W Hooper announces Hon Newell Randers of Chilladoga as United States senator to serve the term of the late Senator Robert L Taylor expiring March 4 1915 Randers is state Republican Committee chairman and is not expected to seek election next January nor to run again as chairman The piece also includes an unrelated medical广告 noting Catarrh Cure claims and a generic testimonial style.
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Nashville
Ben W. Hooper
Newell Bansders
Chilladoga
United States
Robert L. Taylor
Randers
Sanders
Man Found Uninjured Beside Track Near Carnegie Furnace
A man named Henry Shell was found beside the Southern Railway track near Carnegie Furnace. He had been lying by the railroad for three days and was brought to a city physician who pronounced him uninjured. He was en route to Jonesboro and his fare to that destination was paid.
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Carnegie Furnace & Man
Southern Railway
Miller
Henry Shell
Jonesboro
G A R Encampment Set for Johnson City Dates
The twenty ninth G A R department encampment of Tennessee will convene at the National Soldiers Home in Johnson City on May 16 and 17. Department headquarters will be at the Arlington Hotel with the camp fire at Memorial Hall on the evening of May 1. Camp John B Gordon Confederate Veterans of this city invited to participate.
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G. A. R. Department
Tennessee
National Soldiers’ Home
Department
Arlington Hotel
Memorial Hall
John B. Gordon
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