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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1895
Page
3
A promotional note extols a universal medicine as pleasant and refreshing. It claims broad favor among users and describes it as the greatest medical remedy for all conditions and both genders across ages. The language emphasizes its superior efficacy and wide appeal.
A garbled Christmas shopping scene shows druggist pills for indigestion, bakery and grocer notices, gallery promotions, and holiday greetings. Local figures like John Summers, J A Keys & Co, and W H Nelson appear as visiting or active in town. Reverend Preston departs to Greeneville, with strong church attendance and best wishes from the Presbyterian congregation.
A Monday event in Johnson City showcases Mrs Mel Young, famed singer, alongside Mr Gurney of Cleveland, Ohio, in a city choir performance at the Presbyterian church. The piece highlights Young's renown and the choir's anticipated treat, urging patrons to attend for a high quality musical display.
An eclectic mix of city ads for oysters coalwood and baking powder, a Sunday night robbery at a department store with items stolen from passengers on a train, plus consumer testimonials and a condensed drugstore product promotion.
A period advertorial list touts Peruna as a cure for catarrh and systemic diseases with testimonials from Mrs. Mary Alexander of Pipe City Indiana. It includes praise for Dr Hale's Household Ointment and Ayer's Sarsaparilla and promotes free literature from The Peruna Drug Manufacturing Company, Columbus Ohio.
Samuel Hunt, appointed general manager and president of the OP and V. company, gains added honors after the sale of the Birmingham, Sheffield and Tennessee River Railway to the Northern Alabama Railway Company. Receivership lifted. Robert D. B. Todd announces dividend payments by Northern Alabama officers.
An old advertisement promotes Cold Dust fow best salve with dubious cures and a refund guarantee, listing ingredients and prices. The text includes a court notice from Johnson City Tennessee, requiring nonresident defendants to appear in chancery court, with dates and procedural instructions for a four week publication.
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