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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1896
Page
3
Community notices on Webb Brow products, local shop offers, and visits by residents. Items mention Chase & Sanborn coffee at various stores, patterns from Butterick, medical and religious events, and local social calls. Public figures, merchants, and families are named with brief town happenings and sale pitches.
Mrs. Branner advertises spring goods at Main Street Hows & Hodge building. Mrs. Geo. R Brown visits Syracuse for a sister’s wedding. Advertisers offer Biddle DeWihaworth flour with Dr Price’s Cream Baking Powder. Three horses killed near Three C’s Station. Kniss advertises Arbuckle’s coffee 20 cents. Electric cars to run Sundays subject to weather. Aunt Eva Miller dies on Main Street from dropsy. Morris Clark of Wellhouse & Son speaks in Johnson City. James A. Martin seeks lumber prices for third child. Hotel Greenwood opens under J. W. Ball. Prof Parsons will give organ recital May 1 with Ms Ernest Young and others. Democrats of Washington County convene May 2 at court house in Jonesboro. Lars Loeb noted lecturing on Laughter at the opera house. Col. John T. King dies at Watanga. Lynching of a negro at Cranberry for arson and attempted rape. mob threatens further violence. Dr Hale’s Household Ointment advertised for families.
An advertisement extols a pill named Delleve Lt for kidney trouble and nervous weakness, claiming it provides permanent relief after trials. The notice urges readers to buy by mail and lists a Georgia and Tennessee travel fare promotion tied to a Confederate veterans reunion in Richmond, with train routes and dates across the South.
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