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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1885
Page
3
Fragmented 1888-era notices show Johnson City ads and local items. Merchants Hunt Lide McNulty Borches announce goods from sugar to coffee. local births, marriages, taxes, and small-town petitions appear alongside vendor lists and notices of repairs and repairs.
A 1885 ad lists weekly tobacco prices in Johnson City with buyers Whitwon Wm Ray and P Johnson, noting values for yellow wrappers and mixed yellows. It includes shipping spares and mentions Electric Bitters as a cure for kidney and liver complaints, praising rapid effects and listing J. B. Hash & Son as sellers.
Auction notice offers 500 acres on the south bank of the Watauga River with a railroad through the property. 800 acres cultivated, 200 in timber, productive, with cottages, barn, riverfront land, orchards, and near Johnson City and Elizabethton. Prices below par, sale on easy terms, land subdivisible for small colonies near railroad access in East Tennessee. Address Editor Tar Comer.
A fragmented market report by Will Harr attempts to summarize weekly conditions but is marred by corrupted lines and unreadable phrases. The readable portion mentions traders, locations, and commodities with unclear details, leaving the overall market picture ambiguous.
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