Society Personals Highlights From Johnson City Visit
Lyle Bruner spent a day in Johnson City on his first return since moving to Knoxville. The 21 year old, born in Johnson City, is a traveling salesman for a textile firm and is well regarded by childhood friends. Various locals are mentioned visiting for the holidays and several names and places noted, including trips by Walter H. Brown and messages to Santa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lyle Bruner
Johnson City
Knoxville
Lyle
Watauga Avenue
Xuille
Comet
Robi. Cook
Dante
Miss Dietrick
Miss Shriner
Carrie Cook
6Th Avenue
Baltimore
Billie” Thomas
M. Lyon
Walter H. Brown
Greenevil
W. EB. F. Milburn
Johnsons City
Greeneville
Christmas Snow Men Ice Cream Figures Menu Idea
A Christmas menu item describes making snowman ice cream figures with vanilla scoops, grated coconut, chocolate cream for heads, candy arms, cloves for features, and optional candied cherries or citron for noses or buttons. The note encourages festive creativity and sharing with absent friends and well wishing.
Christmas Decorations and Festive Home Decor Tips
A crowded notice urges using holly or mistletoe if available, with sprays over pictures and wreaths in windows. It suggests red ribbons, candles, a gilt Christmas star, and a bell, to transform homes and churches into festive settings during the season. It also includes a child’s appeal to Santa and a doll request from Mary Greer, a four year old.
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Santa Claus
Mary Greer
Dolly
Christmas Luncheon With Old Fashioned Hearth and Holly
Readable text describes a hostess hosting an eight guest luncheon in an old fashioned house. Highlights include saving a yule log, holly decorations, wreaths at each chair, place cards, and a menu with grapefruit bouillon oysters turkey and plum pudding. Also references singing Cayden's Silent Night and a list of carols by Schumann-Heinks and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cayden
Schumann-Heinks
Bethlehem
Wenceslas
Orent
Christmas and Santa in a Soldier’s Memory
A festive poem blends Christmas praise with wartime longing, recalling Bethlehem, angels, and gifts. It contrasts childhood Santa fantasies with a soldier’s distant home, urging temperance and mercy, and ends with handwritten pleas for toys from readers Herman Ashby and Bettie Ashby.
Veterans Bill to Convert Mountain Branch for Confederate Homes
Senator Works of California introduced a bill to convert Mountain Branch N H D V 8 at Johnson City Tennessee into a Confederate veterans home. It also calls for a Washington DC branch and an annual 300000 dollar appropriation to support existing Confederate homes. Former Bristol boy Linn Walker Searles dies at eight after being struck by a car in Birmingham Alabama.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ghay
Washington, D. C
Senator Works
California
Johnson City
Tenn
Bristol
Linn Walker Searles
L. W. Searles
Birmingham
Ala
W. Ledford
Bristol Herald-Courier
Common Kidney Remedy Endorsed by Local Resident
Johnson City readers hear a common error in treating back and rheumatic pains. Mrs. Sallie Campbell of 303 Claiborne St testified that Dean's Kidney Pills relieved her severe back, joint stiffness, dizziness, and nervousness after trying liniments. Price 60 cents, at all dealers. Foster-Milburn Co. Buffalo NY.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnson City
Sallie Campbell
Claiborne St
Jomson City
Whitehouse Drug Co
Dean
Henry Bunn Buys Russell Hotel in Jonesboro
Henry Bunn of Bristol has purchased the Russell hotel in Jonesboro and will take charge January 1. The Russell is the town’s principal hotel in the historic old town, and Mr and Mrs Bunn bring seasoned experience in entertaining to the Jonesboro community.
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Russell
Bristol
Tenn
Henry Bunn
Bunn
Jonesboro
Husband Rescued Despairing Wife With Remedy Cardui
A suffering woman describes years of illness with severe left side pains and near immobility until her husband provided Cardui. She attributes gradual recovery, able to walk two miles, to the tonic's effect, urging others to consult their druggist for Cardui.
Lee McClung Dies in London Hospital After Typhoid Siege
Lee McClung former U S treasurer and Yale official dies in a London hospital after a three month typhoid illness. He served with St Paul and Duluth Railroad, Southern Railway, directed Phoenix Mutual Life Hartford and the Marion Institute. His body to be brought to Knoxville by his brother C M McClung.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lee Wclung
London
Knoxville
Lee McClung
United States
McClung
Yale University
St. Paul & Duluth Railroad Company
The
Southern Railway Company
Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company of
Hartford
Marion, Ala
National Councilman of Boy Scouts of America
American Association For Highway Construction
C. M. McClung
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Dice and Factory Car
Marker and BooneSts
Olnson City Tenn
J. M. Hughes
Cranberry, N
Evalyn
Marie Noel
Normal
Farmville Va
James Hardin
University of Tennessee
Ward Finberg
Vanderbilt
Edward Humphreys
Carson Newman
J. H. Pierce
T. C. Jarnagin
Morristown
Porter Arnol
Myrtle
BV A. Tam
Snow Men
Jordan
Jordan & Jost
St Lenox Avenue
New York City
Plumbing Company Plumbing, Heating and Gas
Eail
Spring Street
Earth
Plains
Santa
Plese
Chrismiss
Herman Ashby
Anna Bell
Crismiss
Helen Lusel Ashoby
Kris Kringle
Christ
Bettie Ashby
Hieses
Hostetter
Ms. Bullock
Husband
Chris
Frank Taylor
J. B. Roithne
Roan Street Jeweler
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