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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1885
Page
3
Johnson City items recount a church and lodge activities, marriages, funerals, and social events. Mentioned are Masons, local editors, residents like Tom Swingle, Rev N G Taylor, Mason Char, and attendees in sales hall dinners. Also notes on school reopenings, market ads, and small town gossip across January 1885.
Poem celebrating Christmas playful hunting imagery with references to boys shooting game, bells ringing, jollity, and a carrier boy needing tips. Ends with Angus Comer's Carrier Boy.
The Toledo Blade promotes its national weekly paper with large circulation claims and cheap subscriptions. It advertises Nasby Letters and engravings, urging readers to request a specimen copy and include friends’ addresses for mailing.
An 1880s style local newspaper fragment sold advertising and notices. It lists remedies, shops, and services, mentions Johnson City Tennessee, Reynolds Georgia, and multiple patent medicines, with references to B B B and Dr King’s New Discovery. The text reads like a rural county newspaper page packed with notices and ads.
500 acres on the south bank of the Watauga river with railroad through it lies between Johnson City seven miles west and Elizabethton three miles east. 800 acres under cultivation about 200 in timber nearly all tillable productive of grasses grains fruits tobacco and vegetables. Indifferent cottages multiple houses a large barn 100 by 66 feet cabins and tenant homes two log tobacco barns three fourths mile of river front. Apple and peach orchard. 200 more acres adjoining No 1 on the west with river front. Large two story dwelling, new unfinished, fine spring setting. Railroad station within 250 yards. Sale to pay debts. Land may be divided for gulf purchasers if they take all. Ideal for a small colony or summer homes, in a retired but accessible valley in East Tennessee. Title perfect. Address.
Editor touts Electric Bitters as the best blood purifier and liver regulator for many ailments. Claims quick, guaranteed relief with a money back promise. Sold at fifty cents a bottle by J B Hua & Co.
A trial bottle of Dr King s New Discovery for consumption cough and colds is available at J B Waal Son. The ad claims relief for asthma bronchitis hoarseness and severe throat and lung afflictions with regular size at 1 00.
Fragmented OCR text lists a market report titled Market Report Corrected Weekly by Will Harr. It mentions seed, Timothy feed, and various garbled phrases about poultry and produce pricing. No clear events or names beyond Will Harr. appear in readable form.
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