This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 8 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1897
Page
4
A wide range of items including finance shifts with a gold reserve around 198 million, legislative sessions across states, a rail incident in Tampa, and political moves in North Dakota and Chicago. Notable disasters and crimes include shipwrecks near Brest and South Norwalk, a New Orleans steamboat fire, and a Quebec tragedy. Reports cover floods, yellow fever in Rio, Bombay exodus, and Rhodes in Capetown.
Dyspepsia is an illness of digestive organs with varied signals such as short breath, rapid pulse, dizziness, cold hands, and nervous forebodings. Dr Deane's Dyspepsia Pills claim to remove these signals after each meal. Kingston New York.
The Game Department of the East Tennessee Poultry Show in Johnson City lists premiums for prizes and merchandise. Winners or sponsors include M. I. Gump Crown Flour Mike McGinley W. H. Leach Tart & Smith K. L. & B. Braoner Cox Ward & Friberg Biddle Ellaworth and others with cash, goods, subscriptions, or merchandise valued up to 1.00 and beyond.
A promotional note touts an 18 pages a week weekly paper with 166 yearly issues, claiming size frequency freshness reliability and broad subscriber reach in all states. It lists Conan Doyle Jerome K. Jerome Stanley Weyman Mary Wilkins Anthony Hope and others as contributors and offers a one year price of 150 for two papers, with a regular price of 2.00.
The Sun declares allegiance to popular rights and honest motive, opposing political machines and monopolies. It emphasizes independence and sound principles, endorsing good laws and government while offering subscriptions by mail at fifty cents a month or six dollars a year.
The Baltimore Weekly Sun promotes itself as a practical agricultural journal with full worldwide news, reports from agricultural experiment stations, farmers clubs, and veterinary and poultry sections. It offers market reports, puzzles, and poems for city and country readers at one dollar a year, with free mail in the United States Canada and Mexico.
Scribner's Magazine highlights a red letter year with new works by Richard Harding Davis and Helen Watterson Moody. It notes Gibson illustrations of London and featured articles on retailing hotels banks and manufacturing, plus undergraduate life at Yale and Harvard.
Chancery Court in Johnson City Tennessee orders four week notice to creditors of First National Bank of Johnson City. John I Cox receiver seeks court approval to accept J M Buck offer to compromise two judgments totaling 6273.04 against Minneapolis Improvement Company and Thos L Rorser. Public notice requires creditors to appear Feb 1 1897 rule day to show cause. December 22 1896 W F Youss clerk. C W Honor B C M.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.