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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1897
Page
3
The page lists ads and notices from Jackson's store and Webb Bros offering groceries, meats, flour, and remedies. It notes community items like visits, sickness, a new courthouse charter, and local shipping updates. An editorial pitch promotes Hood's Sarsaparilla and New York Life policies with local agents in Johnson City.
A promotional piece extols advances in medicine and surgery including X rays and Paine's celery compound. It claims cures for neuralgia rheumatism nervous debility and blood diseases attributing success to the sympathetic nervous system and purified blood urging readers to try a bottle and observe results.
An exhibit arrives in Johnson City featuring a whale with a special ear, said to be 400 years old, 55 feet long, and weighing 80,000 pounds. Admission is 10 cents. The car will be sidetracked near the depot and the show lasts all day.
Sam Howell of Vineland had $85 lost and recovered after John Sanders traced the finder who forced him to return it. Also notes include Taylor and Faucette leasing the old Snapp stand to open a premier livery and feed stable next month, and January marriage licenses issued for several couples. Worley Millard narrowly escaped death during a train shift incident with a miraculous save as he stood near a moving car. Read our advertisements.
A stone struck a Ross Smith train window as it left town causing two broken panes with no injuries. No arrests yet. Also notes a political jab about Brownlow’s influence and government appointments. Mrs. Sarah Mongle, 71, widow of Dr. Mongle, died at dawn and will be buried at the family graveyard on Sinking Creek after funeral services by Rev. W. P. Crouch. She leaves four children.
I. A. Fox of Dover Col. plans to move his poultry operation to Johnson City with a five year lease of the Nat Love property near the Southern depot. The United Fanciers Association of Johnson City is organized with a $10,000 capital, led by M. Jackson as president and B. A. Fox as secretary treasurer. About twenty members, including Tate L. Earnest and W. A. Hunter, organize to breed Barred Plymouth Rocks and Brown Leghorns and promote Fox’s poultry in journals. The Mountain View Poultryman will be edited locally to support the group. The notice also memorializes N. B. Campbell, a longtime Odd Fellow and railroad conductor, who died recently and is honored by the lodge.
Purported as the best medicine for restoring vigor, Electric Bitters is advertised as a vegetable tonic. It claims to tone nerve centres in the stomach, stimulate the liver and kidneys, aid digestion and blood purification, and improve appetite. Sold for four dollars per bottle at McFarland & Co.
The document outlines a foreclosure style notice stating that the purchaser must provide notes with approved personal security and interest from a date in January. It indicates a lien on full goods for purchase money until fully paid and references a printer's mark and names, with minimal legible context.
A 19th century advertisement offers one hundred dollars reward for a cure Hall's Catarrh Cure cannot cure. It features endorsements from J Cheney and firms Wreav Turax and Walking Kiawan Manyix Toledo wholesale druggists, claiming internal treatment not blood driven and testimonials available.
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