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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1910
Page
3
Abingdon poet and preacher Sleepy Tom Clark is critically ill at the home of J. Rob inson in Carter county. Dr Dan Trigg attends him as fears grow that the condition may prove fatal, though Clark says he has a premonition he will not die.
The new parish room at St John’s Episcopal was opened with about 200 attendees. The facility seats 400, includes a well equipped kitchen, and was celebrated with races, a potato spoon crowning, banjo music by Mr Beeson, and a reading by W J Johnson. Ladies served lunch and polive.
A house servant reveals a child grew ill while the mistress was out and nearly drank medicine from a cupboard. The bottle found by a maid labeled Skid Reviver raises questions about proper remedies and supervision.
The Globe advertises a 20 percent discount on its complete shoe line and invites readers to send The Comet to friends while promoting various local businesses including Warren & Co real estate and Soyoncy Furniture stored at the T. E. Hurst warehouse.
A discussion on dress time from ancient to modern eras. It contrasts Cleopatra’s swift arrival with women today delaying fashion to please partners. Debates whether one hour is the proper preparation time and who is best qualified to judge the ritual of dressing.
Lawler reports Tennessee county committees have passed resolutions urging Governor Patterson to seek the party nomination. He says widespread Democratic backing supports another run and likely nomination and election if he accepts the race.
Judge Campbell, nominated for circuit judgeship by the Brownlow faction, says the race centers on candidate fitness not fuel or ward politics. He notes eight years on the bench and expresses confidence in voters knowing his record, adding he may speak rarely and not favor formal stump speeches.
Feb. 12 Jonesboro reports rising interest in a street car line to Johnson City and the likely site of the Geo. d L. Carter addition for both an auto track and a macadam road to connect the towns. Farmers attending court week discuss fair association revival and hog shortages with high hog prices noted. The column also includes a comic panel snippet.
The Bristol Herald Courier on January 19 printed verses about the Bristol Telephone Company device. The humorous lines lampooned daily calls and the role of the phone in town life, reflecting early 20th century humor about telecommunication.
A busy man complains of faulty service at the Bristol Telephone exchange. He races the crank and bell, curses the line, and hears a soft female voice ask for the number. He insists no call came, and the exchange directs him to the East Telephone Company for metal line service.
A 1910 Lynchburg commission merchants notice lists strong demand and daily fluctuating prices for pork, bacon, beans, apples, potatoes, fowls, and assorted dry goods. It urges ship shipments, cool handling, and bundled items like dried fruits, walnuts, and butter, with detailed price ranges and packing notes for various commodities.
The Commercial Appeal recalls Lincoln and Lee as two remarkable Americans honored by the people. It notes Lincoln’s leadership in ending the rebellion and Lee’s aristocratic conduct, praising their kindness and patriotism. The piece reflects on the evolving view of both men across the North and South.
Koasati Indians in Louisiana still use a six foot cane blowgun with eight inch darts wrapped in thistle down to hunt birds and small game. The tribe also weaves moss into blankets from moss yarn spun on frames, once common as bedding. The article notes rare handmade pottery vessels, a Cypress knee drum, beaded shoulders, baskets, and coin- hammered ornaments by silversmiths.
The University of Vienna with a 500000 kronen anonymous gift builds a Radium Institute under the Vienna Academy of Sciences. Sir William Ramsay receives a gramme of radium to continue experiments. A gramme stores energy equal to one horsepower for 15 days, yet it releases energy only gradually over about 30000 years.
A Nassau street tailor trending upward to Fifth Avenue adopts Roman numerals on his cards, newspapers, and ads. The stylistic shift draws surprise from peers, with comments about Vth and VIIth avenues potentially spreading to other streets as businesses adopt the numerals in addresses.
A magazine editor quotes William Bayard Hale as caustic about a banking Christmas game like hide and seek. The tale reflects Hale’s wit at a bankers banquet and includes anecdotes of metropolitan life and a country cousin's view of city drinking and jokes about duties and prices.
Boston reports a new serum by Dr. Timothy Leary from Tul’s medical school allegedly halting a fatal leptomeningitis linked pneumonia. A critically ill patient received ten times the usual dose with injections every five hours. a week later the man sits up in bed and is expected to recover.
Fragmentary legal note from Chienge Fel. 14 references attorney Seth Crewe and a dispute over paying a fee for pronouncing a single word during a proceeding. The readable text is sparse and lacks clear dates or outcomes.
The report describes John Smith consulting Crewe and confirming a deathbed marriage legal. Smith married Miss Barah Patterson and died two hours later, with Mrs. Smith later bearing a legal heir to $100,000 left by Bath. Crews seeks $115,000 of Unis for fees.
M H York has been promoted from ticket agent at the Union station of the Southern Norfolk and Western and Virginia and Southwestern to traveler passenger agent for the Louisville and Nashville railway with Knoxville headquarters. He succeeds J Q Ator who resigns to take a similar post with Northern Pacific. Friends praise his rise but note his departure from Bristol.
A new weekly newspaper titled the Bristol Independent appeared Saturday in Bristol Tennessee. Rumors say it may compete in future elections, with editor J. Smith listed and editor Shete Senator Sella mentioned in relation to upcoming congressional tests against Congressman Brownlow.
Two Civil War veterans Lie Re Ricketts aged 77 and W P L Prieg aged 47 were buried side by side in Nie Hioun cemetery after dying on the same day. Both served in the Fifth Tennessee. their enlistment, discharge, and burial coincided on the same date.
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