Chuckey Valley News Highlights Local Life and School News
The Chuckey Valley area buzzes with harvest notes, crowds at Conkling for an ice cream event, and plans for Conkling High School. Teachers are elected for the forthcoming term, with DeVault as principal, Chase as first assistant, Ruble and Cloyd filling other posts, and ongoing talk of returning Miss Hes ver Paine. Enrollment at the country school reached about 145 last year, one of the county’s largest. The Comets popularity contest draws attention from Telford Garber and Washington College, while summer crowds gather at local resorts and events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knoxville
Jonesboro
Telford
Johnson City
Will McGee
Man
Beast
Conkling Hatunday
Conkling High School
R. M. DeVault
Deane Chase
Washington County
Conklinkelike
Doan's Kidney Pills End Kidney Trouble Says Man
H C Beasley of 108 Myrtle Ave. Tennessee describes years of back pain, profuse and scanty kidney secretions, headaches, and nervous spells. After two weeks on Doan's Kidney Pills from Grey-Sprawl Drug Co. he claims all symptoms disappeared. Sold by Foster-Milburn Co. Buffalo New York. Remember the name Doan's.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. C. Beasley
Myrtl Ave
Tenn
Dean
Grey-Sprawl Drug Co
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
New York
United States
Doan
Strurk
Kiet Mise
W. Bends
Coal City
Ala
Dr. I King
Gst Co Miller's
London
Raising of European Armies Conscription in Practice Across Nations
A discussion of compulsory military service in Europe outlines varied conscription systems. It notes selective drafting, age eligibility, exemptions for dependents and disabilities, and long service paths across regular, reserve, and territorial forces. Evidence of malingering and evasion, including doctor complicity, is cited with modern fraud cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pearson’s
Regular Army
Army Reserve
Territorial Army
Territorial Reserve
Cologne
Wartime conscription deceptions and brutal European practices
The excerpt describes conscription avoidance across Europe with German, French, and Spanish examples. It notes doctors studying feigned deafness in the French army, cruel practices in eastern Europe to keep youths exempt, and a Spanish witness oath ritual. It ends by mentioning a spider web of unusual length.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Europa
Spain
Political talk and military notes from a Kansas outpost
A fragment from a WWI era column blends political banter with camp life. It mocks war department proposals, mentions Roosevelt, Bristow, and Uncle Joe, and recalls social scenes in barracks. It lists soldiers by unit, notes a barbershop departure, and ends with a medical plug for Chamberlain's Dysentery remedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Department
Peddy
Congress
Joe
Bristow
Tomn
Sioux Chief Two Face Battle Memoir Connects to Connor
A soldier recalls the Two Face raid on a Santa Fe trail settlement, a siege near Fort Laramie, and the capture of a white woman and child. General Connor orders search and a court martial, with Two Face hanged and two Indians sent back to the guard house.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sixteenth
Kansas Cavalry
Rio Grande
Maximillian
Council Grove
Kan
The
Grove
Fort Kearny
Fort Riley
Salt Creek
Tue
Nebraska
Robert Bayles
National Tribune
Hastings
Neb
Two Face
Fort Laramie
Gen. Connor
Two-Face
Connor
Face
Approaching Marriage of Sullins Dosser and Mary Hodge
Knoxville readers learn of the upcoming wedding of Sullins Dosser of Morristown and Mary Hodge also of Morristown. The couple plan a simple ceremony and will travel to Asheville and points east after the vows. Dosser is the son of Mr and Mrs Frank Dosser. his maternal grandfather is Rev Dr David C Sulling of Cleveland. River maintenance news notes the government operates 30 steamboats and spends 500000 annually to keep rivers navigable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knoxville
Sullins Dosser
Morristown
Mies
Mary Hodge
Dosser
Mik Hodge
Asheville
Points East
Dleet
Frank Dosser
David C. Sulling
Cleveland
Journal
Prisune
Do not forget Chamberlains Colera and Diarrhoea Remedy
Advice warns travelers to take Chamberlains Colera and Diarrhoea Remedy before summer trips due to water and climate changes. It notes the remedy cannot be obtained on trains or steamers and urges buying from dealers in advance.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Chuckey Valley News
Comets
Garber
Washington College
Tulelney del Torano
Breeden
Salisbury
North Carolina
Rowan County
Rusty
Hot Springs
Ark
Breedew Medicine CO
Chattanooga
Sunny Brook
Brook
Jefferson Go
Heller Bros
State Street
Bristol
Va.Tenn
Kome
Ivery
Tommy Burns
Sam Weller
Lavenworth
Wmn
Benson
North Gate
William
Chicago
Williams
Janes Price
Pallid Denlern
Tennessee
Nashville
A. P. Cooper
Knoxville, Tenn
Theo. A. Rousseau
Chandler, Dist
Pass
Agt
Bnoxville, Tenn
Reklstern
Knox Collis Kennels
Rivera
Sparger Mills Co
Drizee
Harry W. Cease
M.D. Pridter
Jn Harrow
Main St
Carter Aduition Johnson
C. J. Broyles
M. D. Provtice Link
Liseawes of the
Murrow Building
Hot Millers
Howlden
King Street
Tipham
W. J. Matthews, M.D
Tunriclan
Avrgron
Ey Mtewhede
Feile Mitton
Mali
Sanity
George J. Sells
Ant Suaron
Bulle
Omoe
Nueht
Wm. Silver
Husson
Johnnon City
Tenneson
E. N. Moore
Artouinyvard Connartion
Law ‘Dmive
Koomp
AL Wawa National Bank
Fonhwon City
Ponness
Johnson & Miller Arrouxnrs At Law Omiite
Johnson Cry
Tonngswoh
E. J. Vaught
Arromsey
Souiniton
Burrin Building
Engest, House & Co
Saljettet
Beain Se
Bissey
J. R. Gardner
Artonwry
Laws
Armbruyt-Stith
Mee
Murrow
Klock
Tobakon
C. Williams Arrowsey
Law
Ann Somierrow
Onaxcenr
Ohaxon City
Tennansee
Cox & Sells
W. C. Pierce
Juvrice
Tix Pracravy
Novant
Southern Railway
Johnsos City
Hamsckals & Dyer
Main
Huffaro Streets
Hyder
Ariimptor Hove
Nat Hyder
Boone & Sharpe Inrubance
Pica
Lite
Accident
Odin
Fiz
Whesl
Pideliape
Tismm
Pheas 129
Tory
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!