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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1896
Page
3
Jackson markets groceries and flour with low prices while new electric light plans advance in Bristol. Local officials, clergy, and residents travel for events, meals for the poor, and a large birth reported, all amid winter sickness and a booming local economy.
The column lists advertisements and local notices including merchants stocking Christmas items at B. White and Jackson, doctors exchanging pulpits, Mrs. Summers in Jackson, Miss. not expected to live, Johnson City becoming District No. 25, and upcoming sermons by Rev. E. I. Jones. It notes lamp chimneys at B. White’s and other consumer items, plus a Masonic Lodge installation and an oyster supper.
Community donations requested for a town dinner to aid the poor at the opera house by 9 a.m. on the 26th. Pneumonia affects three children of Mr. and Mrs. John Reeves. Beatrice remains unchanged. Johnson City court convenes next Monday with 42 cases on the docket.
Ad for Onurath and Our patterns priced to attract holiday shoppers. Eight pattern options and eighty seven patterns offered with special sale pricing. Affordable dress patterns target gift buyers seeking value this season.
Advertisement notes ladies and misses kid gloves and mittens as a suitable gift item. It lists ladies kid gloves, misses kid gloves, ladies mittens and children's mittens in a period style catalog.
Advertises umbrellas for men and ladies with a range from tie to three dollars each.
Frank Wagoner, suffering from ex ophthalmic goitre, worsened recently and is bedridden with little hope of recovery. Dr. L O Jenkins planned an operation but deemed him too weak. Dr. J W Cox has attended him as he remains largely unchanged though able to take nourishment.
Walter E. Ragsdale of Chattanooga wed Miss Mand A Balston in Brooklyn on December 8 at the bride’s parents home. Ragsdale, known as mine host of the Cloudland hotel on Been Mountain, is celebrated in the piece for his hospitality.
Knoxville residents react to a partial pickup of Holbrook Normal School property, five miles from the city. The school, opened by Prof Josiah Holbrook of Ohio about three years ago, faced conditions that would transfer ownership to Knoxville if seven years of successful operation were completed. With the contract unsettled, the city intends to claim the property valued at about 75000 dollars.
A brief display of holiday handkerchiefs featuring ladies silk handkerchiefs and gentlemen silk handkerchiefs including saree inspired designs. The listing highlights festive patterns and gift suitability.
A vintage ad highlights refined household linens including bleached damask napkins priced at .4.4.4550s and fine damask towels, underscoring linen as the quintessential gift.
The Rockwood Daily Herald lists efforts to incorporate Ducktown and notes Sevierville theft issues. Athens suspends fire ordinance on Christmas day. Greeneville Lutheran revival ongoing. Mt Word post office closed. Bradley county farmers received 40000 dollars for logs in three months. P Dungan chosen president of Elizabethton Telephone Co. Hopewell Springs revival ends. Bristol furnace bought for 55000 by Home Tron Co. Benton escapee Marion Hartness captured in Mineral Bluff Georgia with infected injuries treated by Sutherland's Eagle Eye Salve.
Subscription notice asks readers to sign up for the New York Journal with rates mentioned in an unclear phrase. The fragment hints at a promotional line but provides no concrete figures or terms beyond a general invitation. No dates or names beyond the publication title are readable.
The readable fragments describe a complex timetable with arrivals and departures at multiple locations and times. Mentions include Washington New Orleans service, Pullman to Shreveport, Knoxville, Knoxville and other routes, with numerous clock times interspersed and garbled station references.
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