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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1905
Page
3
A fragment advertisement offers first class table boarders and nicely furnished rooms in a convenient city location. Mentions Mus. GO and a contact at 117 Walnut Street with casual notes on nearby business areas.
A jumble of notices and local notices from Johnston City and Washington County Tennessee, plus travel tickets and ads. It lists an August 1906 municipal bond vote for a high school, election officials, and multiple short social and business items including visits, sales at Barton Nichols Hardware, and local announcements.
The Watauga Electric Co has ordered a water tube 250 horsepower boiler of the latest design and is unloading it at the plant. The new boiler will provide ample power for all purposes and avoid a total shutdown in case of accident to the existing boiler.
Mrs Lucinda Byrd died after weeks of illness at 8 o clock Monday night July 10 at the home of her son A W Byrd. She lived over seventy years and was fondly regarded by many. Burial followed near her old home on the Chucky River Tuesday afternoon.
The August Delmester features practical advice on cooperative house keeping at the seashore by Isabel Gordon Curtis with detailed facts and figures. Also in hot weather are Cold Tidbits for Hot Days seasonable recipes and summer fashions and reading, making an unusually interesting issue.
Henry Davis aged 21, a popular drummer and former district manager for the American Snuff Co., died at his sister Mrs. R. B. Robinson’s London home after a brief illness. His parents and a brother had died in the past six months. friends recall his big heart and wide circle. An unrelated ad on savings and a remedy for colic appears in the same column.
T A Gillepsie and Judge J Kirkpatrick discovered extensive slate on the John Voril farm in Cash Hollow. The shallow seam, long known to Mr Ford, can be mined easily for roofing slate and will be developed with immediate work by hired crews.
Every Hour of the Day company Patton Drag Co. of Jonson City advertises Hindipo a kidney cure and nerve tonic. They offer a positive guarantee with a full refund if it does not help, saying trials cost nothing and all customers may try it.
R L Benner, a leading Johnson City merchant and stockholder in the Una ka National Bank, died on his Knoxville front porch after supper from a hiccough illness. He moved to Knoxville two years ago from Johnson City where he had strong local ties and a large circle of friends. He leaves wife and four children Edna Lyle William Hagen and Vernon.
A fragment from a page credits an artiste linked to Rival Lines and references the Chat tanooge Times in a note about attribution. The readable text is sparse and unclear on full details or dates.
Blaine Denton died after a log rolled on him while helping on the saw mill yard about four miles from Garber. He succumbed to the injuries shortly after the accident occurred on Tuesday at Camp.
Charlie Weaver married Miss Sarah Rogers last Sunday in Blountville. Rev. N B Sherfey officiated. Rogers is a Stuart Virginia native who has stayed with her aunt Mrs. B C Kirkpatrick. Weaver is the son of J D Weaver and an Ian Johnson City boy with a bright future. They plan to reside in Johnson City.
The Harris Mfg. Co is rebuilding its plant in this city with a two story concrete block factory. A machine for block production has been purchased and installation is underway. Completion is targeted within 60 days as the new facility promises high quality and reduced insurance costs.
Ruth Dewey of Agnewville Virginia was critically ill with cholera infantum. Her father says a single bottle of Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy brought rapid improvement. she recovered after taking part of a bottle. The medicine is sold by H C Miller. Chicago mayor Dunne to present plan to city council today to own 245 miles of street railway lines.
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