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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1908
Page
4
A fragment from the Louisville Courier-Journal shows playful banter about poets lovers and a football player. Dialogues reference a father’s approval and quirky humor with lines about tricks and a lawnmower.
Round trip winter tickets at low rates to Florida Cuba Georgia Carolinas Alabama Mississippi and Texas available daily through April 20 1908 with year round service to western and southwestern resorts. Clergy permits valid over Southern Railway and other lines south of the Ohio and east of the Mississippi issued from Atlanta Georgia application through Joseph Richerdean chairman and available via Southern Railway agents.
D Hill offers ready to cut timber on abort notice including 2500 feet beat yellow loount and cooler posts any size, pickets railings and 50000 feet framing lumber red white and oak plus pine, up to shot in length. Also flooring ceiling siding and finishing lumber from OConnesronpexo e Sonora.
An old advertisement extols Dean's Kidney Pills as a cure for kidney troubles, claiming relief for backache and urinary issues. It features a Johnson City resident testimonial, price, and dealer details, urging readers to remember the brand and buy only Dean's.
Stanley French, a Village by the Sea resident, found a roll of $9,500 on a Belmont Park bound train and returned it to owner Henry McDaniel, a horse trainer, after a long night of bad luck and a promise to do right. He received a $1,000 reward and faced hard times ahead.
Two young women from Lock Haven and Williamsport endured a terror night in Hyner area forests after encountering a fierce black bear during a hunting trip. Rescuers found them Sunday morning, guiding them back to Hyner camp via the railroad.
In Philadelphia court Nineteen fourteen era scene shows Josephine Darmska a 14 year old girl kissing Judge Von Moschzisker after receiving five months in jail for manslaughter in the death of her newborn. The girl pressed to kiss the judge and court officers intervened. The piece notes Mrs Ogden Goelet seeks a million dollar five year lease for Ochre Court Newport RI equating to about 1100 a day. Pallbearers Union No 1 forms in Alexandria Virginia with a charity ball planned to aid bereaved families.
Miss Johnson, once a Salvation Army worker in Armourdale, built and moved into a one room house at 2848 North Eighth Street. She financed the ground, raised funds by canning, washing, and factory work, and completed interior and exterior work herself with a hired four dollar a day carpenter aiding only at the window frames.
John Hepler, superintendent of Charles Evans' cemetery, died at 78. A renowned local figure, he was famed as one of the world’s top button collectors with a 80 000 item, duplicates free, catalogued collection begun over 40 years ago. The buttons range from shirts and trousers to military pieces from many nations. Hepler knew histories behind many pieces and collected royalty buttons among them.
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