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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1902
Page
3
One female bird dog named Jour H was lost or stolen from Bowman Jolson City after leaving home Saturday December 0 102. A liberal reward is offered for information leading to her recovery.
Willow Creek folks prepare for Christmas events with theater at the opera house and a community gathering. Advertisements invite RSVPs, promote art framing, holiday turkeys, and local sales while noting visitors from Lenoir and Bristol and a planned lights campaign on main streets.
From Hot Springs Arkansas came Dr Bol ton for health. A Knoxville Sentinel item praises a new country store opened in Ne Hokinan, reporting £200 net for the First Baptist tives oa See church fundraiser. Summers of Johnson City visits Knoville as head of Summers Barton Parrott hardware firm. He notes rapid city growth, sidewalks, and housing expansion with no vacant homes. Watauga Lighting offers incentives for better night light. Cold Dust flour praised for general use.
Friends receive notice of Ela Tuogor and Henry B. Gilmer marriage in Hahen Texas on Tuesday evening December twenty third at five thirty PM. The item also promotes Frank Davidson comedy The Polka Up Willow Greek at the opera house Friday night December 26 with seats at Gump's. Cargille's Bargain House reports heavy holiday shoppers and a red letter day for the store amid brisk trade and crowding.
Johnson City recorder A Ponder, a leading First district Republican, visits Knoxville on private business. He notes his reelection to a second term and recalls his reputation as a strict fining official. Plans for a Soldiers Home sewer project with engineer Samuel M Gray are outlined, funded by a city bond issue amid a town revival.
First consignment of eighty ordered engines has arrived with future deliveries at one per day. Sixteen engines are being rebuilt at Lonsdale shop in Knoxville, using wrecked locomotives refurbished to near new condition. Increased rolling stock promises to ease shortage and congested yards.
Knoxville Journal Tribune notes Col Arch M. Hugher nominates Hon W P Brownlow for vice presidency. The report remarks no definite result yet and ends with an advertisement for Gold Dust flour.
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