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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1910
Page
2
The Comet is led by H. Lyle as editor and owner and published weekly on Thursdays. The Johnson City post office lists second class mail status and subscription details.
The article critiques Nashville political disclosures and party infighting among republicans and democrats, alleging self interest and spoils politics. It notes reform setbacks, lists judges and offices gained by allied factions, and mentions the Fenton Marble contract for East Tennessee Normal School with W D Scruggs as a senate chief clerk candidate. ends with support for Scruggs.
Knoxville Sentinel reports towns including Bristol Cleveland Middlesboro Jellico and others push for a four team league. Directors weigh adding Bristol replacing Gadsden with a meeting likely Friday night to decide on a tentative eight town circuit and possible Bristol berth amid strong fan interest.
Weather forecast from Washington says a disturbance over western North Carolina will move northeast with winds turning to high northwest along the south Atlantic coast tonight. Storm warnings are posted from Jacksonville to the Norfolk area.
Terre Haute reports Eugene V. Debs will move to Girard Kansas to edit the Appeal to Reason. Fred D. Warren serves a jail sentence for distributing inflammatory printed matter.
In Wilkesharre Pennsylvania, Albert Gey of Sewyersville was whipped by Magistrate J A Hayden for beating his wife. Gey, frail, showed head and arm bruises and admitted nightly abuse. The magistrate, angry at the brutality, applied the whip twice and warned him to stop striking his wife.
Washington reports the thirteenth census shows Tennessee with a population of 2,184,789, up 164,173 from 1900. The gain reflects a 1.8 percent increase, while the 1890 to 1900 rise was 253,098 or 14.3 percent, with Shelby County leading at 191,439.
The article reports Cook confessing he does not know the pole and expresses resolve to reveal all. He asks readers to judge his sincerity and explains months of isolation and hunger may have skewed his belief he reached the pole. He calls the far north immune to evidence gathered by sight.
Dr Frederick A Cook says he does not know if he reached the north pole. In Hamp ton's opening article he asks if he reached the pole and says he may be mistaken, offering his case as a man rather than a geographical discovery. Editor Benjamin Hampton announces the piece.
Rio Janeiro dispatch reports rising officer discontent within Brazil's army. The unrest spreads to several regiments as a lieutenant who criticized the president at a funeral for murdered officers faces arrest and court martial proceedings.
Judge Kelley in Memphis tied two Memphians who settled a quarrel with a fist and skull fight rather than pistols or knives and released them as brave southern gentlemen. The decision, seen as a wholesome example, may discourage deadly violence and spur public sentiment against pistol use.
Revivals at Munsey Memorial Church led by J B and Burke Culpepper attract growing crowds. Burke Culpepper delivered a strong sermon on The Way of the Transgressor is Haed and J B Culpepper promises a great treat tonight. A Sunday 3 PM special sermon for men is planned with a hoped attendance of at least one thousand. Children’s services progress as citizens attend widely. E W Hughes visits from Piney Flats and Edith Barton returns from Chattanooga trip.
Police charged and clubbed a crowd of about two hundred garment workers and sympathizers who tried to block non union staff from International Tailoring Co shops at Jackson Boulevard and Canal Street. Three leaders, two of them women, were arrested as the mob dispersed.
Three men are lost when the tug General of the Great Lakes Dock company sinks after colliding with the steamer Athabasca near Lime Island in St Mary's Passage during a snow storm. The tug tried to aid the steamer Pollack, aground at Martin's Reef at the time.
Columbus November 30. The annual report by Colonel W A Taylor state commissioner of soldiers claims shows 1274 claims filed in the year and 951 granted. Granted amounts total 169285 dollars. The department handles veteran claims for pensions with no charge to claimants.
Limestone village, sixteen miles west of Johnson City, reports large deposits of roofing slate and cement rock found by Cal Thomas Gillespie. Investigations by T. J. Thackston, M. Jordon, and Prof. Evans deem it the finest slate in Ambrian with nearby water power suitable for development.
A large group of Independent democratic members elect of the legislature gather in Nashville for a conference this afternoon. The purpose of the meeting is not disclosed for publication.
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