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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1914
Page
4
Tennessee voters react to fractured legislature as several Republican runaways face nominating reversals while others hold or lose seats. In Unicoi County a man named Robert Fagin died by gunshot in a suspected self-inflicted act linked to domestic distress.
Mr and Mrs J B Wolfe and others from Mizabethton visited Fall Branch relatives. Miss Mary Wolfe returns from Austin Springs. Mrs Otto Bingham and sister in law from Sugar Grove plan New Bethel with relatives. Faw and Miller of Bristol visited Rocky Springs. Families and neighbors from Bristol Deer Lick Johnson City and Fatale are listed with brief visits and returns.
Bristol reports Congressman Sam R. Sells will be unable to canvass the first district before the September 5 primary. He faces no opposition for the straight Republican nomination, while Gen. J. J. Cox looms as a likely Progressive. The Sept. 12 convention will nominate Judge H. T. Campbell J. W. Howard and Capt. John T. Fuller among others.
Dr A P Harrison Velentary surgeon and dentist maintains offices at McClain and Dickinson on Market Street and at City Drug Store. Night telephone numbers listed as New 474 for both locations.
Bristol reports discussion of nominating a Democratic candidate for Congress in Tennessee the first district amid Republican splits. John T. Cox declined to run citing a prior pledge not to seek office this year though Democrats may unite to the party’s advantage. Nashville dispatch notes Gen. Hannah’s recovery from illness as Justice Lansden plans to rejoin the Knox County Supreme Court after a period of rest and restaffing.
Chattanooga August 22 rumor says Jesse M. Littleton plans governor bid though he declines to confirm. He says solicited by Nashville Memphis and Knoxville factions, and that neither Republicans nor Democrats have a candidate. If he enters the race it would back an anti prohibition platform.
Tam L R Love asks voters in Washington Greene and Unicoi counties to re elect him to the Tennessee General Assembly. He notes his past record of duty and advocacy for constituents and asks for continued suffrage in November.
A compact list of major wars and treaties from 1285 to 1913, outlining evolving conflicts and outcomes. It notes independence gains, monarchic shifts, and key peace accords such as Utrecht Paris Aix la Chapelle and Berlin, with references to period revolutions and nation-building events across Europe, the Americas, and the Ottoman sphere.
The late Associate Justice Lurton of the supreme court left his entire estate to his wife Fanny Owen Lurton, naming her sole executrix in a testamentary paper written sixteen years earlier and now presented to the register of wills.
A fragment notes a dis-will filing with no value mentioned. It references a Supreme Court asking that the justice's estate be declared valid. The document is described as a rest document written in a Washington style, with surrounding property notes.
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