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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1895
Page
3
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Limited No. 4 offers through Pullman sleepers to Washington and New York with connections to Baltimore and Philadelphia. A second Sleeper runs to Radford, Virginia, with daytime rail for Roanoke Lynchburg Petersburg Norfolk and Richmond. Sleeping car reservations via Melam Travel Office Knoxville and Washington contacts.
An ad-promotional piece touts Compound Oxygen as a life giving gas magnetized and confined for transport and release. It claims 25 years of experience with vast case records and offers proof and relief for ailments like catarrh consumption asthma neuralgia and debility with over 60 000 cases documented.
Jackson's for low prices and fresh goods dominate today notices. Frank Stratton returns from a business trip west. IL. P. Allen visits in the city. Mrs. Harris hosts. J. Latimer travels to Elizabethton. Eclipse Gorn Planter advertised. Ayer's Hair Vigor praised. Gifford Montgomery Noah Wagner Louis Pearson named in obituaries and notices. American Furniture Agency promotes 60 percent off and ships direct from Galona Kansas.
John B. Smith a Wa tauga merchant faced a federal hearing before United States Commissioner Mathes on the charge of mailing material with lewd and obscene language. Bound over to federal court in a $500 bond, the items were addressed to a Johnson City young woman but intercepted by her father and brother. Smith posted bond to appear at the July Knoxville term.
Wm Cure aged sixty eight died Friday morning at 10 35 at his son's residence on Sixth Avenue after almost a year with consumption. He moved to Johnson City in 1887 from Ulster County New York where born and reared. He leaves two sons Orville and John and a daughter Libby married to T M Allen of Roan Mountain. Funeral at John Oure home. burial in Monte Vista Cemetery. Also notes Judge Smith holding chancery term over Three O’s bond case with Johnson City seeking relief from 75000 in bonds. attorneys listed for city and bondholders. Ayer s Sarsaparilla praised for appetite and digestion.
Small farm with a four room house and outbuildings including pantry cellar porch and stable offers are invited in a favorable area north of Johnson City. Local buyers Mas Kare R. Granms advertise favorable terms and a willingness to pay high prices for live hog veal calf and fat cattle during the next ten days by J A Baionr.
An advertisement lists prices for canned goods and fruits such as syrup peaches and California peaches with cents per unit, notes jelly and apple butter prices, and promotes Hencehold furniture catalogs via American Furniture Agency Galena Kansas, claiming factory prices and quality, ending with Hood's Sarsaparilla claim.
Reports of Peabody Day events include student work displays, addresses by Rev. J J Robinelle and others at multiple buildings, public school involvement, and invitations to citizens and visitors to tour schools. Also notes recent local marriages, deaths, and Mobile travel observations from a visitor, with reflections on climate, city life, transportation, and plans.
Information free for travel to the West Northwest or Southwest on business or measure. Reliable rates, routes, and country resources provided. Great Mackenzie Route offers boat facilities for families moving West. One car change from Atlanta to Moraphiv, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Louisville, and Chicago. Joo. L. Edmondson, B0. Pass. Agt., Chattanooga, Tenn. B. Howell, Pass. and Tkt. Agt., Cor Sth and Market Sts., Chattanooga, Tenn. Price's Cream Baking Powder World’s Fair Highest Award.
Local items report visitors and residents in Bristol and Johnson City, including De Rhos Preston and Bam Linmeox, plus a birth notice for Mr and Mrs Patterson. Also includes a testimonial ad for Hall's Catarrh Cure by Toledo firms and a prescription claim with doctor endorsements.
An advertisement touts Bacco-Cure as a scientific, vegetable remedy to cure tobacco habit without willpower, claiming a Berlin physician designed it and promising a permanent cure in three boxes or a money refund with interest. It guarantees nicotine-free results and offers samples via two cent stamps from Eureka Chemical & Manufacturing Chemists in La Crosse Wisconsin.
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