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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1887
Page
3
A long list of items for sale and upcoming events fills pages: organs, sewing machines, hardware, watches, paints, and medicines. Prohibition rallies, theatre plans, rail developments, and public notices crowd local life with ads from McFarland’s, Lide & Co, Evans & Hurst, and Kirkpatrick & Co, plus a court sale notice for a traction engine and operator in Johnson City.
A Johnson City Tennessee ad promotes Wheeler's Diarrhea Mixture as the safest remedy for flux dysentery cholera and summer complaint of children. It claims the formula has no poisons and acts when taken in time and urges every family to keep a bottle at home. The product is prepared and sold by DL J Wheeler at Heper bottle in Johnson City.
The document recalls Castoria advertising through generations and presents a chancery case against non resident Caraline Boring of Virginia. It notes publication of legal notice in a Johnson City paper for four weeks and a court hearing in Jonesboro on the fourth Monday of November 1887. It records a land sale in Jonesboro tied to a Washington County Circuit Court judgment against John Jones (Col) with sale set for August 13 1887 and sheriff Geo. W. Wuncer.
By order of sale issued from the Circuit Court of Washington County Tennessee at the April term 1887. On Saturday the 1st day of August 1887 the court house door in Jonesboro will host a cash sale to the highest bidder for four acres more or less, in the 7th Civil District, adjoining W.2 White and others, subject to Wells homestead rights and three judgments in favor of J K P Hall for 120.08 each plus costs. Gro. W. Winnert.
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