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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1885
Page
3
The week brings subscription reminders for The Comet with calls at Jonesboro to collect balances and signups for new subscribers. Local items include deaths, marriages, visits, fairs, business ads, political mentions, and community notices from Johnson City to Bristol, with brief reports on residents, sales, and area happenings.
JA Mant offers a reward for evidence leading to conviction of person or persons stealing lumber from his lumber yard over the past few weeks. Report any information to assist authorities and recover property.
The Philadelphia Times notes a summer lull in Washington as the President begins a fishing trip to the Adirondack wilderness. Cabinet officers will be away for the rest of the season, clerks reflect on past duties, and a temporary calm settles over the capital while politicians recuperate for the upcoming campaign. A breath is drawn as administration aides anticipate a return to activity once Congress reconvenes.
AW and Alone & Bro advertise top market prices for large eating chickens seeking local poultry suppliers. The notice urges farmers to bring birds for payment at peak rates offered by the buyers.
A dramatic broadside notes Dy. King's New Discovery for Consumption as a proven remedy with thousands cured and invites trials at B. Hash's Drug Store. Alongside, a series of disaster reports recount a fatal wagon crash near Jefferson, a wild west railway boast, and a fatal Ellis County barrel explosion that killed two daughters and left the parents near death.
An advertising mix touts Shilohs Cough and Consump with cures for consumption and related symptoms. J B Jones sells Shilohs Vitalizer for constipation loss of appetite dizziness and Drapeyna symptoms. A Hampton Ga case praises B B B blood poison remedy curing ulcers pains kidney issues and restoring health. Also promotes Shilohs Cure for cough and sleepless nights with sale by J B Jones.
August 7 report from Wasnendox notes the president amended civil service rules to exempt from examination those in substantial medical professions and formally exclude medical examiners from the list of exempted workers. August 11 article from Ale Forks describes President Cleveland and Dr. Ward passing through en route to the Adirondacks, greeted by H. D. Graves at the depot and hosted at his home before a stage trip to Prospect House for a few weeks.
Rev W R Coovert and 8 Arnold plan to establish a claim in New York to Harlem Commons and Riverside Park including Grant's tomb area. The case traces a 17th century patent through Waldron, Williams, Van Zandt to Luke Coovert, with potential $460 billion split among ten heirs if proven. Legal action hinges on a nine nine year lease about to expire and contingent fee arrangements with attorneys and Benjamin F Butler guaranteeing victory.
The notice lists Bucklen's Arnica Salve hailed as the best for cuts sores ulcers and more with a money back guarantee and 25 cent price via J B Hash It also promotes Shilohs Cure for croup whooping cough and bronchitis and Shilohs Vitalizer for dyspepsia and liver complaint sold by J B Jones
San Francisco reports a serious clash between outgoing and incoming U S sub-treasury leaders over the vault cash count. Brooks favors weight tally while Spanding demands individual piece counts. With $3,000,000 in the vaults, recounting could take six to eight months.
Mr Geo V Willing of Manchester Michigan writes that his wife nearly helpless for five years improved dramatically after using two bottles of Electric Bitters. He claims the remedy cures and hundreds of testimonials support its powers. Also mentions Shilohs Catarrh Remedy and Porous Plaster with local availability and prices.
A public notice of land sale under alias execution dated May 14, 1685, in Ward County Tennessee. The property, described as north and south boundaries by W J Gilmer and Tringan Inna, with previous owners Donnie Humpror and Wumer Levied, is to be sold to the highest bidder on July 25 at the circuit court Bakers, Dep. Rherlf, this July 21, 1855.
Fragmentary OCR yields a garbled note with names and places unclear. It mentions Die chirkenny Aen ver Tey ne and references Docks and Floor Meal in distorted form. No coherent event or outcome is discernible from the readable text.
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