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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1897
Page
1
A dramatic push outlines Dr. Hartman visiting each household to diagnose and treat illnesses at no charge. He invites letters with case details and promises confidential replies plus a free copy of his book on catarrh and winter diseases.
At the State Federation Convention in Memphis Mrs Beard saluted the welcome. Mrs Van Loder Kirkman read a paper on Women’s Part in the Centennial praising women’s plans and progress. The Woman’s Board treasury exceeded $5,000, aiding congresses and expenses for running the women’s building during the centennial.
An assortment of notices and overheard quips fill a patched page. A patent remedy touts quick relief for nervous ills and female complaints, while brief political quips, editorials, and social notes poke at figures like McKinley and Weyler, with local Nashville and Knoxville mentions mixed in.
An ethnologist notes the shrinking Bushmen of South Africa, tracing their origins to early African tribes, their cave art in Drakensberg, six click languages, and a single laborer said to have sparked public interest when his bones were sent to England for display at the South Kensington Museum in Chicago Chronicle.
A compact roundup covers a labor bill in the Iadioun House halted by controversy. Biro in Dallas faces property loss valued at $10 000. Wilson elected President of Washington and Lee University. legal disputes over fees and a Lexington hold up. trials and sentences for abduction. education and railroad policy battles. Kansas arbitration stance. pension and civil service notes. a damage verdict of $400. steel rail pool decline and Carnegie claims. a 101 year old couple death in Tennessee. Mardi Gras travel deals. a medical tonic advert and a hanging incident involving Sheriff Batery’s son.
A scattered page notes a case in Louisville involving Jno Beasley against Chief Justice Snodgrass for injuries and a planned distiller price control in Kentucky. It also mentions a movement to abolish Unicoi County, Nashville speaking engagements by W. J. Bryan, Hood’s Sarsaparilla ads, and a New York Mail and Express investment panel in Johnson City Tennessee promoting a building loan association with secured real estate collateral and guaranteed returns.
In Murphy NC on February 1 1900 residents tracked a wild man reported near the Nanthahala range. Three months earlier J W Campbell of Flats NC disappeared. his son identified the captive as his father. The frenzied man was chained at home for safety as authorities arrange care.
50 lbs. of Coal 50 lbs. of Coal Aday would keep your rooms warm in winter. But that small stove will burn only twenty-five. Hence discomfort and misery. A certain amount of fat, burned daily, would keep your body warm and healthy. But your digestion is bad, and you don't get it from ordinary fat food. Hence you are chilly, you catch cold easily, you have coughs and shivers, while pneumonia, bronchitis, or consumption finds you with no fistive power. Do this. Burn better fuel. Use SCOTT'S EMULSION of Cod-liver Oil, air and digestive power will revive, and soon a warm coating of good flesh will protect the vital organs against the cold and the fag against disease. Two sizes, 50 cts, and $1.00 Book free for the asking. SCOTT & BOWNE, New York.
Birmingham Alabama hosts the Mardi Gras Carnival on March 2 and 4 1907 with Southern Railway offering round trip fares to Birmingham and return. Tickets on sale February 9 16 18 and March 1 for travel on morning trains, with routes within 200 miles of Birmingham. Call local agents for details.
The article notes that crop quality in tobacco varies with grade and emphasizes potash as the key requirement for high yield of finest leaf. It advises using fertilizers containing at least 10 percent actual potash to maximize quality.
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