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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1896
Page
3
The note lists advertising options with low prices and multiple insertion plans. It mentions teas and wares and hints at sales terms. The fragment shows a雑 assortment of goods and pricing strategies for readers seeking affordable notices.
News items from Johnson City and vicinity list visits by named people from Elizabethton Bristol Knoxville and Chattanooga. Mentions Chase & Sanborn coffee promotions at Jackson's and local merchants Summers Barton Robbins. Socials, church notices, sales, and transportation notes fill the community page with routine life and local commerce.
Hart & Smith firm buys spring and summer stock in the east to supply Johnson City shops. Mr Hart predicts a new era of prosperity and urges patience to await the firm’s spring stock, while local notices follow about taxes, auctions, and community happenings.
Fragmented report includes claims of a French revolution, corrupt hall play by Von Der Ahe, uncertain Macoe death, empire edges, Argentina damage, Armenian tensions, Olney as Democratic nominee, Harter of Ohio at Fontoria, Rockford liabilities, southern negroes protest in Savannah, cremation movement in England, New York cat show, Rev Orlehinger and the Virginia legislature, and Corbett boxing chatter.
Bank report shows resources in a muddled OCR listing with loans, discounts, overdrafts, and deposits. Includes a tax collector notice, a burglary report of flour, and an advertisement for six percent mortgage shares in a magnetic building and loan association in Johnson City Tennessee.
A promotional note announces clothing available at first cost at the Bee Hive. The message highlights affordability and invites shoppers to take advantage of the deal.
A blaze ripped through one dry kiln in the heading factory causing total destruction of the plant. Loss estimated at 2500 with 1700 insured. two accidents occurred among workers during evacuation. Fire partly impeded by a 4 inch water main. origin suspected as spontaneous. A second small fire struck the coal and rod house of T B Strain with $75 loss and no insurance.
Public auction notice dated 1896 details William L McFarland and Maggie A McFarland mortgage.sale of lot 11 in Watauga Land addition Johnson City Tennessee for debt satisfaction. Also includes unrelated items about doctors Dublin and Hall's Catarrh Care offer and medical oath.
In Washington County Circuit Court two cases by Deibl and Blocker & Co. proceed to a public auction at the Jonesboro court home door on March 14, 1896. The land, 72 to 78 acres, lies in the 10th district and is subject to dower rights of Mary J. Beskent, with debts and costs totaling outstanding sums of 18.60 and 36.20 dollars, plus sheriff’s fees.
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