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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1915
Page
4
The Comet by T. H. Lyle and T. L. Anderson with John A. Everett as editors and publishers.
Published every Thursday and entered at the Johnson City Tennessee post office as second class matter.
A local column lauds Johnson City as a growing town ready to adopt city ways. It urges better traffic regulation and public behavior, notes rising prosperity in East Tennessee, and encourages readers to support a weekly paper that reflects progress and values local advertising.
St Douglass travels with the Southern Highway on a business mission to Elizabethton Mor day.
An advertisement in Johnson City touts Dean's Kidney Pills as a remedy for kidney related pain. It lists widespread availability and urges readers to try the product, claiming consistent relief.
The narrative recounts a dinner in Macon for Jeff Davis’s capture era, detailing meals and hospitality. It chronicles a wartime train departure, an hour of informal talk with Gen Wilgen about Lee, Bragg, Grant, Johnston, Beauregard, and others, and emphasizes his nuanced views on generals and Lincoln. He praises some leaders while criticizing Johnston and Beauregard, notes Grant’s skill, and expresses mixed expectations of McClellan and others, ending with reflections on Lincoln and Andrew Johnson.
The document recounts the births of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis in Kentucky and outlines their divergent life paths. It notes Davis’s rise to Confederate leadership and Lincoln’s Union presidency, touching on pivotal Civil War events, imprisonments, and postwar reflections. It also lists pension data and mentions contemporary views on the Confederate flag.
Judge S D McReynolds ruled the cemetery trustees without right to appoint successors and named Coldwell Frazier and the City of Chattanooga as guardians. The decree allows Confederate soldiers wives to be buried there, settling long standing questions about wartime ashes and burial rights.
The 4th Kentucky was organized at Camp Dick Robinson on October 9, 1861. It served two enlistments and mustered out August 17, 1865. Commanded initially by Col Speed and Col Fry, later led by Brig. Gen. Crockett, then Col John T. Croxton, and finally Col Robert M. Kelly. Belonged to Brannan's Division, 14th Corps, with 11 killed in action and 330 dying of disease.
Daniel Rankin, a Taunton veteran, long believed a rifle shot from his own weapon killed Stonewall Jackson at Chancellorsville. He maintained this belief with men from his company who were on picket duty at the time.
A reflective aphorism warns against human self centeredness and arrogance. The remark emphasizes that thinking oneself the focal point of all existence leads to widespread error and misjudgment. It frames humility as a corrective to inflated self view.
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