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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1888
Page
2
In 1888 Republican pledges to reform tariffs are questioned as a Senate debate hints at possible moves on the Supreme Court. Reports from Dubuque and local editors discuss tariff reform, Blaine versus Cleveland politics, and party divisions while local commendations and legal news unfold.
A mix of editorials and local items covers free trade remarks by a British merchant and Blaine, a county line survey between Greene and Washington counties, a governor’s social day, school principal appointments at Johnson City, new rail line work near Shelby, and local deaths, forgery cases, and a counterfeiting caper at Cranberry Iron & Coal Co. with a worker jailed after a trunk search revealing counterfeit checks and instruments.
Mr A Gibson improving at Horace, log traffic aids Reedy Creek loggers. Lumber trades lively near 8. A & C RR. Capt David Sevier builds a new barn. Prof Buchanan returns to Glade Spring and resumes a prosperous school at Hawkins County. Howell Henderson starts wagon shop at Peltier. Guinn builds woodwork. Prof Sproles runs a fine Church Hill school. J W Nelman’s Reedy Creek school out. he contemplates Texas trip. Measles rage. J F King heads to Louisville to clerk. UT submits revised enrollment. 25 new students arrive. second term starts Jan 18. Journal notes UT’s path to prosperity as uprisings of activity lift attendance.
A promotional notice for Dr. Joan H. Dye’s book claiming painless childbirth, remedies for morning sickness and swollen limbs, and guidance for pregnancy. Includes sales pitch to send two cents for details and testimonials from Frank Thomas & Co., publishers in Baltimore.
A clash outside a grocery owned by A. John near the State Line left Thomas Whitehead mortally wounded in the side and hip after rocks axes and pistols were used. Whitehead died Friday night as Dr. Lane noted the fatal wound. The assailants fled toward Will Winters’ residence after the shooting. The piece also promotes the Piedmont House in Johnson City Tennessee as a renovated, leading East Tennessee hotel.
A newspaper column recounts a tale of a gentleman guiding a stubborn animal as a boy and a cow approach. Dialogue includes exhortations to turn the cow and brief local chatter about shoes, tobacco, and a joke about calendar years near 1999 and 2000.
A fragmented early notice mixes a humorous dialogue about introductions and a sudden sales pitch. It includes a cousin’s impediment in speech, a cautionary tale about misrecognition, and then a long advertisement for Ziegler Brothers offerings such as clothing, hats, shoes, and bedding with low prices. The piece closes with a warning against competing sales.
The county court convened on Monday naming J.W. Cromley chair man and R.M. K. Deakins vice chair man. Also elected were J K Albert and others as commissioners on settlements and several as notaries public. A slate of admissioners to districts and a post office list of remaining letters is given, with a request that advertisers be noted. Special GA R post meeting urged. medical ads and testimonials conclude the page.
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