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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1899
Page
1
Russell Sage, famed American financier, is depicted pursuing wealth while sharing maxims for a balanced life. The list advises temperance, plain food, recognizing opportunities, avoiding despair, and keeping cool to outwit adversaries, presented with antiquated phrasing from the Saturday Evening Post.
A New York World feature portrays Capt. Oberlin H. Carter once found guilty of defrauding the United States of 1.9 million dollars. Despite a court martial sentence, no action has been taken, while he enjoys club life as a celebrated “good fellow” in Manhattan.
At Williams Grove Pennsylvanians hear Miss Eroma Brewer read a strange fragment praising kitchen tricks for husbands framed as cooking advice. The item shifts to ads for Dr King’s New Life Pills and Tutt’s Liver Pills, then to a yacht scandal involving a government contractor and a misnamed Texas tale, ending with patent medicine pitches.
The wife of George Hatchett, color ed, Brownsville Pa, gave birth Tuesday morning to seven children. Four boys are alive and healthy while three others died shortly after birth. The father, a coal miner, hurried home to witness the extraordinary scene as doctors Lilly Shoemaker and Worrell reported the births amid thick crowds and notable excitement.
A lengthy promotion touts Western North Carolina as the Sapphire country with Fairfield and Sapphire Lakes, lofty cliffs, and a dry healthful climate. It extols Asheville as a year round resort near the France and Swannanoa rivers, highlighting Vanderbilt’s estate and the region’s sanatorium appeal.
The Southern Railway promotes summer resorts across Ashville North Carolina Hot Springs North Carolina Hale Springs Tennessee Roan Mountain Tennessee and mountain and seashore destinations in Western North Carolina Lookout Mountain Monte Sano and many others. A folder Summer Homes and Resorts catalogs nearly one thousand hotels and boarding houses with rates and rail fares. Contact Assistant General Passenger Agent A Deusooter at Southern Railway for a copy. The mountain climate at Hot Springs offers cool summers with year round hotels and illustrated literature for travelers seeking reduced excursion tickets via local agents or W A Turk General Passenger Agent.
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