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Newspaper

Comet

Location

Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America

Date

Jul 20, 1893

Page

2

Jersey cow to become popular as future dairy mainstay

Paive Relay argues the Jersey cow, once seen as ornamental, becomes a top family and dairy partner in northern climates. He cites a heifer yielding four to ten quarts daily, high butter quality, and easy churn, outlining winter butter as a path to year round profitability and national butter exports.

Jersey Jerseys Channel Islands France Little Jersey Sam Slick

Pension Rolls Not Dropping Pensioners Yet

Commissioner Lochren says the Pension Bureau will not drop names merely because proof is inefficient. If the Board of Revision finds an improper grant, the recipient receives sixty days to submit further proof. Removals will be limited until September when the workload rises, as the revision process only recently went into full operation.

Commissioner of Pensions Lochren Pension Bureau Board of Revision

To the World's Pair Pullman Sleeper Bristol to Chicago

The 8 A and L N railroads run a vestibuled sleeper from Bristol leaving daily at 3 25 p m and arriving Louisville 6 55 a m with a quick connection to Monon route in the South's finest union passenger station, Chicago bound. Tickets and sleeping car space available at the 8 A C depot, telephone 29.

Louisville Bristol Monon Union Chicago Telepone

Summer Diet In Summer Dietics And Health Observations

A Cincinnati Tribune note by F. Oswald discusses summer dietary faults and heat linked illnesses. It argues excess heat producing foods worsen summer distress and suggests cooling beverages and restraint from animal foods as remedies to reduce cholera morbus dysentery and digestive complaints.

F. Oswald Cincinati Tribune

Secretary Carlisle Allows Foreign Exhibits After Exposition

Secretary Carlisle decides foreign exhibitors may sell their displays after the exposition, upsetting fair managers who counted on revenue from exhibit sales commissions.

Carlisle

Hood's Sarsaparilla Claim on Blood Disease Cures

Advertisement extols Hood's Sarsaparilla as unrivaled for curing scrofula skin eruptions and various blood diseases. The copy emphasizes extraordinary results and specific ailments to persuade readers to try the remedy.

Hood

Adulterous Cohabitation Rule for Widows Pensioners

From the Bureau of Pensions Washington a ruling states that open and notorious adulterous cohabitation by a widow pensioner includes both present and prospective pensioners and claims under the July 14 1892 and June 27 1890 acts will be rejected if such cohabitation occurs after August 7 1892. Illegitimacy and birth out of wedlock are cited as proof of such cohabitation signed by Commissioner Wm Lochren.

Bureau of Pensions Wrehington D.C Wm. Lochren

Back to the Fold follows 1891 act across insurers

Foreign insurers comply with the 1891 act as Fidelity and Casualty of New York Insurance of North America of Philadelphia and Hartford of Hartford Conn. join. Other corporations filing Monday include Jobe Building and Sonar Association of Louisville Revere Rubber Company of Boston and Climax Baking Powder Company of Emporium Tenn.

Fidelity and Casualty New York The Insurance of North America Philadelphia Hartford Hartford, Conn Jobe Building and Sonar Association Louisville Revere Rubber Company Boston Climax Baking Powder Company Emporium, Tenn

Insurance Rates Seen Rise In Tennessee August

Advance price increases likely among insurers in Tennessee with about a twenty five percent rise anticipated around August first. The Scottish Union and National of Edinburgh and the Springfield Fire and Marine have withdrawn from Tennessee. About nineteen companies remain active in the state.

Tennessee Scottish Union National of Edinburgh Springfield Mass

Catarrh Remedy Claim Promises Cure and Cash Prize

A dated advertisement urges readers to abandon caustic salves and rely on Dr Sage's Catarrh Remedy for a permanent cure. It claims mild cleansing effects relieve catarrh, headaches, and head colds, and offers $500 to prove the claim or provide proof of cure through a stated agreement.

Bain

Cosmopolitan Magazine and Comet Offer

The Great Illustrated Monthlies have sold for four dollars yearly and The Cosmopolitan with 1536 pages and 1200 illustrations could be bought for three dollars. Now a volume with 128 pages and 120 illustrations is offered for 12.5 cents, with The Cosmopolitan Magazine and The Comet together for two dollars per year.

Cosmopolitan

French Girlhood Reflections on Parental Control and Marriage

Excerpt from North American Review July piece by Marquise de San Carlos argues parental swaddling constrains French youth. Mothers push early marriage, while prospective husbands must seek parental permission or risk violence from protective brothers.

France Marquise de San Carlos North American Review

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