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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1914
Page
5
A sale advertises substantial reductions on parasols and children's dresses. Parasols listed at 1.50, 1.20, 2.00 and half price elsewhere. Children’s dresses in gingham and white show multiple price cuts from 25 cents to 68 cents and up to 1.50. The note promises high quality at low prices.
One of the big items of this store features a first class shoe department with shoes for every family member. A special sale offers W. L. Douglas low-cut men’s shoes at 1.50 to 2.75, including regular 3.00 and 3.50 styles, advertised as values you cannot miss.
A string of society items recounts summer school enrollments at Knoxville and Caruarhia University, visits by Misses Barton and Baxter, and weddings in East Tennessee. Among arrivals are Miss Mary Wyatt Gilbraith and Miss Mary Hardin from Pauliin-Bernd events, with updates on local residents like Miss Currie Loumne McCorile and Mrs. William Gavin Scott.
Miss Carrie Cooke from Dante, Virginia will entertain a house party at her Sixth Avenue home in Carnegie from Friday to Monday. Guests include Misses Mary Deitrick Rhoda Kiess Ina Shriner and Carrie Cooke Fred Pope BR Sparkes Howard Duff and R P Cooke.
The Court of Civil Appeals, led by Judge Higgins, affirmed a decree in the Eterohi Furniture Company petition and upheld the lower court in the soda fountain value suit by John J. McGindson and U H Lyle, with Higgins dissenting on recovery amounts. Busy Workers Club met with Ruth Moore on Watauga Avenue for a morning of sewing, prizes awarded to Miss Belle Lyle, and chatter among the members.
Johnson City mourns Walter Houston Henderson once a local resident who died in New York after pneumonia at the Waldorf Astoria. He was about 47, survived by sisters A M Spencer and Jace Casas and brother F H Henderson. Funeral in Johnson City at Oak HM Cemetery. Rev. Gilbert Grags led service.
Judge Sam Williams seeks support to finish the term on the supreme bench arguing for a nonpartisan eight year judiciary. The piece notes party tensions with Gov. Hooper and Judge Taylor's death, and cites Democratic support for Judge Robert Burrow while criticizing partisan entanglements in the 1910s Tennessee judiciary.
A Prairie Farmer readership propounds a simple turkey feeding contrivance. A small V shaped trough is elevated on supports so turkeys can reach the feed while chickens cannot. A board above the trough blocks access and prevents overfeeding by other fowl.
A colloquial tale from San Francisco Chronicle hints at marital friction. Harry Walker recounts a friend’s complaint that his wife’s harsh scrutiny after an evening with the boys shows a distant, corrective eye.
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