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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1901
Page
3
A cluttered page fragment lists money loan offers, household goods for rent and sale, tax notices, and social updates. It mentions Gold Dust flour at Jackson's, gasoline deals from Galliher & Co, a seven room rental, a modern Watanga street dwelling, tax collection for 1900, and upcoming weddings and births. Also includes medical ads and local anecdotes about notable hogs and a weather related item from the Banking and Trust Company.
Notice to consumers lists water route due and lists January fifteenth as a deadline. A brief courier note from Houston mentions Aravos Warn Co. B.D. Houston at Bluff City due to his mother's illness. The message ends with an assertion about Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic ingredients and a pay policy.
A 1901 New Year message thanks customers for past trade and promises better service and goods. The note seeks mutual improvement, admits mistakes from 1900 to be forgotten, and pledges to make the store a main attraction in 1901.
As clocks struck midnight on December 31 1900 funeral bells tolled for the old year and century. The varying tones gave way to jubilee bells marking the birth of a new year and a new century in many cities and towns.
To our Friends and customers we sincerely hope that new resolutions and better intentions may take full possession of your hearts and ours, and that 1901 may prove the happiest and the best year of all our lives.
The store announces reductions on dress patterns and all-wool dress goods with former prices and new discounts. Embroideries, laces, ribbons, calicoes, and other odds and ends are offered at lowered rates. Millinery and shoes also feature marked-down items and broker lots for ladies and misses.
The notice asserts that all reductions are real and guaranteed in the same terms as described, emphasizing reliability and truthfulness of the representation to customers.
Mrs. Forbes died at the home of the Forbes family in Elizabethton Tennessee after noon Tuesday from consumption. She came to Johnson City from Unicoi county to visit her husband’s parents. The remains were taken to Calhoun for interment Wednesday.
The B Hive invites readers to visit in January amid rising chatter over a proposed bridge vote. A motion to choose a site was postponed to April as representatives from both points grew cautious. Also noted are local resignations, a preacher appointment, and business precincts including Bee Hive’s new “pit” platform for rapid bargain drafting.
January Cut Price Sale is now on as stock is heavy in several departments. Prices are reduced to clear inventory and move surplus goods.
A local shop announces closing out several fine dress patterns at reduced prices. $6.50 patterns marked to 5.00 and $5.00 patterns to 4.00 with many other piece goods offered at exceptionally low sale prices.
In this department we offer one lot of outing 10c quality at 9c. Par sian's flannel reduced from 1c to 12c. New lot of standard prints Justin. Special prices on flanneletts. Carpet Department features 125 cent Ingrain carpets at 20c, 30c at 25c, 40c at 35c, 65c Brussels at 57c. Special prices on all mattings.
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