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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1886
Page
1
A scattered narrative depicts a harsh life where a boy named Joe endures a drunken father and freezing poverty. The scene shifts to imagined moral warnings about a woman's heart and a distant, moralizing voice condemns careless love and its consequences. The piece contrasts domestic tragedy with social commentary on fortune, marriage rumors, and political notes from Scranton to Washington.
A collage of light news items including tone on summer fashion in Paree New Orleans and St Louis watchwords about fur attire. Commentary on Rev Talmage and girls teasing brothers. A book title “How to be Happy Though Married” and demand for the sequel. Dictionary price rise after “innocuous desuetude.” Sullivan Ryan and Dempsey as Greek statues. Dempsey in recent fight hailed as not strong butter.
Charles Stevens embezzled 21000 from a Chicago coal company fifteen months ago and fled to Canada. He returned with detectives, was indicted, arraigned, pleaded guilty, and sentenced to three years in Joliet. The Senate approved a 500000 bill to fund a Lincoln monument in Washington.
We are now better prepared to do all kinds of plain and artistic job printing. When you want something nice and cheap, come to the Comet office in Range's New Block over the post office. We defy competition in quality of work.
Letters from Sully county and other areas describe early Dakota life in 1886. A farmer recounts acquiring two 160 acre claims near the Missouri River, yields from wheat oats corn and potatoes, a saloonless county, and a harsh but improving climate. Other writers praise Kansas land opportunities, urging rapid action before government land is gone.
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