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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1888
Page
2
The Comet reports Speaker Carlisle's improving condition and the McEwen trial at Jackson resulted in an acquittal. Governor Taylor will address the Jackson Public Library Association on the 27th inst.
Rail line work advances in Kentucky and Tennessee with Captains Lomaden and Johnson, a survey of grading in the Breaks, and plans for subgrade crossings near Bristol and Rutherfordton. Yard reports, weather delays, and forthcoming tracklaying crews frame a busy rail season. public notices note political shifts and local developments including hotel plans and water works funding.
The Johnson City tobacco house becomes partnership driven by Mesere Harravnd Reeder, expanding a 50 by 150 foot warehouse for buying selling and auction. Wm Hart and newly joined Reedier garner praise. local sales draw NC growers with prices near 22.09. The note also highlights Chritzman of Gettysburg PA running a jewelers and taxidermy shop in Johnson City since 1887 with a blue palace store and access to Elgin Waltham Springfield makers. The piece ends with a proverb about this year 1888 resembling three big girls and a dude roaming the town.
A Kentucky baby named for President Cleveland received his photograph and a five dollar bill from the president. The piece notes various political chatter, mention of Grandma Garfield and local editorials on Governor picks and a Democratic convention in Wallington with Washington’s birthday reflections.
The document describes a civil attachment filed by G. Lite against Bryant and others in Washington County Tennessee. It notes debt of sixty three dollars and fifty cents, property seizure, and a required appearance by the defendants at noon on February 16, 1888 before Justice T. H. Lusk in Johnson City.
A mid article notices a pledge urging kindness and industrious conduct for all, then moves to advertisements for a new book by Rov e B Cleveland published in St. Louis, with claims of strong reader interest. Companion, Painless Childbirth by Dr Jusia A Dye is promoted as a medical guide endorsed by physicians, offering to ease pregnancy pains and related issues.
Public sale of W H A Jones's interest in the Dover tract in the 4th civil district, Washington County Tenn. The 45 acre property, life estate of Nancy Jones, is levied to satisfy a Thane Saylor judgment in Taave Sinylot vs W H Jones, to be held at the Jonesboro court house on the Sunday of March 1888.
Listings for BAYLESS and Lacey law services in Johnson City Washington and Union counties plus Elizabethton and Bristol dental practices. Attorneys H Carr Hare Berry Rhea advertise collections and court access. dentists Sam W Rhea and W P Hamilton & Son offer pain-free extractions and remodeled offices with sample rooms.
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