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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1888
Page
3
A broad collage of names and places from Knoxville to Bristol appears with shop ads and social notes. References to Kirkpatrick & Co hardware, Jobe’s livery, C K Lide Co, Hash & Wine millinery, Seaver builders, and Patton family health, plus Elizabethton and Newport mentions. Also notes on officials, schools, and a city visit by Prof Frank M Smith amid varied local business pitches.
A jumble of society: dances, weddings and visitors join business notices. Mentions John T. Williams returning to Colorado and a Whitesburg marriage. Local ads invite calls to Campbell Crockett & Martin, Bristol daily paper plans, and a long note on the Three O’s rail project with McDowell county financiers touring East.
A person placed a coupling pin in a switch frog near the tank last Friday night to wreck No 2. Dempsey, the section boss, discovered the obstruction shortly before the train’s due time. A citizen meeting in Jobe's Hall Monday night urged business support to push the town forward. another gathering is planned for Saturday at 6:80 P.M. Reeves attended the Chattanooga convention to seek cheap excursion rates southbound. Brush Creek straightening efforts will be reported at Saturday's meeting. The supreme court ruled Sunday closing barbering on Sundays unconstitutional due to multiple subjects in the bill. H C Yost of Blountville, a buggy and wagon maker, visited the city and may relocate his factory to Johnson City, potentially employing about twenty workers.
A mistyped late 19th century notice claims a countrywide rise in illness linked to impure blood from excess bile, urging liver health and pure blood. It touts Obert’s Blood and Liver Pills as vegetable and suitable for those not yet afflicted, promising restored health through a tonic remedy.
Fire at F A Stratton planing mill yesterday damaged machinery starter. Not all equipment arrived. will be placed in position quickly. Mentioned Chattanooga as a cheap lumber market with nine large planing mills, noting Johnson City’s natural advantages.
The Charlotte Chronicle notes a revised chain of routes from Lancaster across the Cotawba river to Yorkville and Blick's through Rutherfordton in North Carolina, continuing toward Ashland Kentucky. It mentions rough distances around forty five miles and new lines like the Three C's in running order, with references to Charleston and the mountains as factors in the coaching and staging.
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