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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1898
Page
2
Fragmentary notes discuss smallpox danger in Johnson City, a quarantine claim, and competitive advertising. It critiques McKinley on Spain, bankruptcy bills, labor hours constitutional talk, and a Mason speech criticizing Spanish diplomacy with harsh language about Spaniards.
The article quotes an extract from a private letter by Captain Theodora I Allen of the Tth Ohio Cavalry Wilsons Cavalry Corps dated February 8 1868 or 1808, noting fond memories of the war era and requesting payment for a bacon supply while urging readers to recall the old unpleasantness. It also mentions Judge C H Lyle of Johnson City Tenn and a Cincinnati Ohio publication The Comer.
A veteran recalls the Swiss landscape of East Tenn and towns like Tousaboro Bristol and Morrietown. He shares wartime travel, a prisoner moment, a lucky bacon anecdote near Jonesboro, and a plea to uncover a bacon curing secret for a profitable enterprise.
Twenty Years Provf. Tutt's Liver Pills claim to keep the bowels in natural motion and cleanse the system of impurities. They are advertised as an absolute cure for sick headache dyspepsia sour stomach constipation and related ailments in a brief promotional note.
The Knoxville Tribune reports that a bidder on the Morristown and Cumberland Gap railroad paused bidding after news from Maine unsettled stock markets. Danish Dr Arnaud, visiting Copenhagen, foresees electric roads as a cheaper mineral route, while offering aid to build an electric line from Marion North Carolina toward Johnson City with rights of way and convict labor. He notes the Three C's line near Johnson City carries minerals and high returns.
An OCR yielded ad-like copy touts Chamberlain's Eye and Skin Ointment for itching and skin diseases and lists Dr. Coily's Condition Powders as tonic and vermifuge for horses. It claims cures for various ailments and mentions prices in cents per box or package.
Nettin Willis and family travel from Central America to Veracruz to board for Europe. They reach Norway in winter, settle eight years, then return home. A storm on the voyage, memories of snow, and a bald product pitch for Shaker Digestive Cordial conclude the tale with medical advertisements.
A Brevard North Carolina resident and pastor recalls personal and family relief from rheumatism and chronic sore eyes after using Africana. He endorses the medicine as a safe cure for blood diseases in children and urges parents to try it for afflicted offspring.
I, I E Reeves trustee, will sell at public outcry on March 30 1898 at the Johnson City court house a described block of Johnson City real estate including several numbered lots in Proctor and Henry additions, nine acres conveyed by Fern and Brigs, two adjoining tracts in East Carnegie, one acre tracts from Fisher and Redman, and two houses on Bowman Street to satisfy debts secured by the trust deed. The sale is on a six and twelve month credit with terms stated in the deed and more particular description available in the record.
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