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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1886
Page
3
A long mixed list of local notices, advertisements, and personal items from Johnson City Tennessee. Includes subscription reminders, editorial notes, business promotions, social tidbits, and notices about local people, trips, illness, and community events.
A persuasive notice claims Dr King's New Discovery for consumption cures consumptives and throat and lung ailments. It asserts thousands have found permanent relief and offers free trial bottles at J B Hash's Drug Store with a large bottle priced at $1.00.
A ragged ad dense with claims pitches Hart's Blood and Liver Pills as a cure for headache upset stomach heartburn loss of appetite fatigue and other ailments. The excerpt lists remedies for worms and vermifuge products and mentions weddings deaths temperance lectures and local notices from Johnson City and nearby towns with various dates and names.
Ri Brevena visits from your city. A. T. Deaver buys out partner at Dixser McCall. J A February and W G Archer acquire W D Biddle stock to run as February Archer. Skating Club carnival at rink Friday night the 6th. Carrie Earnest visits Texas to see brother Frank. Tax district election returns high tax board: Kirkpatrick, February, Smith elected. Old board’s school tax proposal opposed and defeated 8 to 1.
A fragmentary 1886 letter notices a revival led by "You No" in Tae Comer with 95 conversions across ages from nine to seventy five. It mentions a meeting of influential men to plan a modern high wheat building, and notes the imminent death of Jas. B. Green after eight months of suffering. Wm. Henry marries Miss Davison. a Knoxville Journal correspondent asks for regional fruit crop damage reports due to severe cold, noting peach buds killed and advising farmers to hold dried fruit for next year.
The Johnson City Tennessee post office lists ten letters and postal cards awaiting call. Names include Adama, Alice Hinch Akers, Johnson, Brown, Miss Mary, Nansey Laws, Robt Ladback, W A Smith, Nellie Fralin, Henry Smith, and others. Notices warn unclaimed items will be sent to Washington Dead Letter Office after a set period. Separate notes report Spurgeon returning to work, Ex President Arthur described as hypochondriac, Mendrike friends rally to defeat Bynum, Blaine contemplating a new historical work, and rumors of Parnell being assassinated amid New York Boston chatter.
Ailing Cara to Tadies in America found relief through a simple remedy given by a Russian nurse, restoring health permanently. Free instructions to make the medicine at home are offered by Clara B. Wight of Eagle Street, with a mailed reply for those seeking a cure. Also advertised is the Grand Union Hotel near Grand Central Depot offering European plan rooms at lower rates and improved services.
The notice advertises Buckien's Aruba Batyo a skin remedy with guarantees of cure for various afflictions at 25 cents per box, sold by J B Hash. An attachment suit in Washington County Tennessee seeks defense by defendants, non residents, with writ to be issued if no appearance by May 1, 1886, published in Turk Corner Johnson City for four weeks.
An affidavit shows the defendant owes the plaintiff 116 dollars and 13 cents for a note and related claims. The defendant has fled Washington county, making service impossible. An attachment on 67 percent acres along Sinking Creek, in the 8th district, was issued. Publication ordered in The Cosmet for four weeks to summon Jacob H. Francis to appear on March 6 for defense, or the case will proceed. Proceedings dated January 6, 1886.
A magnetized watch may lose or gain time irregularly. Magnetic and electric influences affect fine watches, undermining watchmakers. Giles Brothers Co publishes a pamphlet on magnetism in watches and a shielding device for anti magnetic protection. They offer free descriptive circulars and a fashion magazine with subscriptions and agent opportunities.
Advertisement for Scott's Emulsion Specific Medicine claiming cures for nervous diseases and impotence. Mentions free trial, mail order pricing, and sender details with signature by inventor Dn 28, Booth London. Includes multiple misspelled names and unclear endorsements.
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