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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1911
Page
2
A jumble of quirky notes from The Daily Comet spans aviation plans and costume notes to rail and canal chatter. It cites a 60 mph auto wedding, a Virginian judge on female education funding, and a 3,000,000 penitentiary plan in Atlanta, smoothing into oddball quips about poets, lunatics, and English slang.
A critique of shrinking home sizes over decades, arguing that large houses once offered dignity and room for social life. The author contrasts grand dining rooms and drawing rooms with today’s compact flats, noting crowding, limited work spaces, and a diminished sense of scale that affects character and everyday activity.
A reader muses on why audiences cry at stage portrayals of human sorrow. He notes some tearful viewers, contrasts his own lack of genuine grief with feigned stage tragedy, and questions whether real suffering moves them as much as fiction.
A speaker reflecting on aviation in France and Europe concludes that ordinary citizens will not travel by air. He notes little recent progress in machines and doubts any major development will enable widespread, safe air travel. He recalls passenger planes remain limited to a few light loads, with horsepower constraints making mass transport impractical.
A public campaign seeks a mandatory one day rest each week with no strings. Clergy support a closed Sunday and Emporis Kansas ministers refuse Sunday post deliveries to show the post office should follow public preference. Citizens not working Sundays should not expect mail, urging simple reciprocity.
London story recalls Captain Daniel Jackson nearing 102 as he reflects on wooden ships and fierce storms that tested his command. He shares memories from Archangel to California, his wartime seamanship, a later life as a blindmaker, and the sorrow of his sister Maria’s death during a recent capful of wind. He notes how steamboats altered sailors, remembers his first voyage, buying his ship, and a hard late-life transition to a landbound keepsake.
Germany conducts a lengthy census seeking 65 million people, with an expected 4.5 million gain since 1908. German officials note the U S population surpasses Germany and anticipate future growth rates. Experts project 160 million by 1980 and up to 205 million by 2136 contingent on colonies abroad.
A medical expert explains why many in England keep watches fast a habit seen in rail stations hotels and homes. People fear being late and use fast clocks to feel punctual with several anecdotes from business leaders and a Magnets Time company official noting most users want clocks ahead by minutes.
The Times reports a possible state owned cable between Great Britain and Canada under consideration. The planned route, first surveyed in 1860, would run from Scotland to the Faroe Islands, then to Greenland and Hamilton Inlet, Labrador.
In Poughkeepsie New York Mrs James Connolly found a rolled $800 in bills falling from an old skirt blown by wind. She returned it to neighbor Margaret Maher who had recently suffered a fire loss and had saved $500 before. Maher identified the money and thanked Connolly for honesty.
Frederick G. Johnson of 9 Oxford Street Montclair New Jersey reports a haunted alarm clock by the spirit of his former pet cat. The device allegedly rang at odd hours and jumped hands causing frights and a damaged clock. The clock was moved to the cellar after escalating incidents.
Italian Algerian barbers in Jersey City set a pricing scheme with a 50 cent hourly charge if a customer is shaved later than scheduled. The report notes the organization, described as a cethedals of prism, and references a top schedule of prices agreed upon.
The family grills the fiancé as a social wreck yet agrees she has one redeeming trait. They quip about her money looks and family opinions while the mother defends the match and the father remains silent until a dramatic line hints at a bold plan.
A reader testifies to the cooling healing of Retinol Ointment for a varicose leg ulcer after weeks of use. The sister Mrs. Calrus Ladykirk of Norham on Tweed reports her own substantial, earlier success after 14 months of prior treatment.
Fragmented OCR text listing various patent remedies and ad style phrases, including Castoria endorsements and a dramatic monologue fragment. Mentions of medical tonics, dating phrases, and a stray line about a marriage proposal appear alongside a title fragment HEART AND HEAD indicating a tragedy reference.
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