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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1902
Page
2
Johnson City faces a heated dispute over a private citizen franchise and a Brownlow bid for a street railway. The council must ensure fair terms, preserve city interests, and avoid turning the deal into a personal matter while broader political shifts and local editorials voice caution about generosity to the congressman.
The State Committee discussed a double header convention in Nashville to nominate a judicial ticket and gubernatorial and railroad commissioner candidates. The News argues for separate conventions to avoid entanglement, advises holding in late May or early June, and warns against extra travel costs for a spring and summer pair. A related item notes a $26 phonograph using large cylinders with a speed dial feature from the Columbia Phonograph Co. in Baltimore.
Health advice on body weight cites overwork and underdigestion as causes of thinness. It promotes Scott’s Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil as balancing aid, warns against overuse, and invites readers to try a free sample, noting the genuine bottle label and price 50 cents to one dollar from Scott & Bowne.
Nathaniel Worley Jr and Sarah Worley are residents of Washington DC. Publication ordered in Tur Corner Johnson City Tennessee for four consecutive weeks. They must appear before the chancery court by the first Monday in February 1902 to answer the bill or be deemed in default.
Washington January 13 The report by Hon Martin Dodge director of the office of public road inquiries in the agricultural department for 1901 notes unprecedented public interest in road building and substantial actual activity across the country.
The office will assist in building sample roads at Buffalo New York Cumberland Maryland Charlottesville Virginia Jonesboro Tennessee and Tama Iowa from earth to tar macadam. Work is educational not a shift of cost to the federal government. Two or three road machinery outfits may be sent to prepared sites.
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