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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1887
Page
3
A flood of shop notices from JW Minter & Bro and Kirkpatrick & Co promote cheap hats, doors, blinds, hardware and dry goods. Local builders, doctors, and officials move about town with ads for medicines, brick mills, cement, and new enterprises. Frequent references to Prohibition debates, hotel rooms, and upcoming church dedications mingle with population moves and a call for a new cemetery site.
Public sale notices issued by Washington County Circuit and Chancery Courts in 1887. Auctions at Jonesboro Court House in August 1887 include property of John Jones and T M Wells with multiple judgments, homestead rights, and condemned parcels. Non-resident Carolina Boring summoned by publication in the Johnson City Commercium.
Public sale announced under a court order in Washington County Tennessee to satisfy a judgment against William Gibson. The sale, by Geo W. Wriere Sheriff, will be held at the Jonesboro courthouse on August 13 1887 within legal hours for cash. Property is a tract in the 11th Civil District bordered by Isaac Jackson Amoi by Am broise Gibson and Gen Erwin to satisfy $63.00 and $5.40 costs.
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