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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1895
Page
1
Nashville letter describes Tennessee statehood centennial as sweeping and transformative. It notes rising investment, real estate activity, and interest from buyers and visitors, with speculation shifting to enterprise gains. It mentions public parks, penal reform, and local political figures, while highlighting racial tensions and lynching debates.
A Beay aville store advertises Dr King’s New Discovery as life saving after a La Grippe scare. The testimonial from Mr G Caillouette claims early improvement after the first dose and after three bottles regained health. Free trial offered at McFarland & Co.'s Drug Store.
A fragmented verse from Ann Arbor Michigan recounts a father’s shift in authority as his baby boy grows. The speaker laments a changing dynamic with a child who now commands affection and daily life, learning from the son while giving up control.
An advertisement claims Electric Bitters cures all forms of headache and habitual constipation by toning the bowels. It urges afflicted readers to try a bottle, stating large bottles cost fifty cents at Molar land and Co.
While J TE Woodward W Tucker and D J N Hrwin examined a pistol in Tucker’s store a discharged weapon shot Hrwin in the thigh. The pistol a new Safety Smith Winson broke. Tucker removed it to avoid further danger before the blast. Local report credits Mr Hrwin with the injury.
A fragment notes careful personal preparation by the proprietor in making Hood’s Sarsaparilla. The brief item highlights diligence in details and product preparation for the medicine.
The Bristol News notes Captain Bell retires from the vestibule run between Bristol and Chattanooga. Capt Henry Titsworth takes charge, praised as capable and courteous. Titsworth known for firm yet velvet handling, popular with the public. Bell leaves many friends behind, and Pop Jacoby may relocate to Knoxville to catch glimpses of the captain.
Bee Hive for shoes, Bucklen's Arnica Salve. The best salve in the world for cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum fever sores, tetter, chaps, hands, chilblains, corns and all skin eruptions. Cures piles or no pay. 25 cents per box. Sold by McFarland & Co. Yuoy carriages at wholesale prices. Catalogs showing sixty three new styles free. American Furniture Agency, Galena, Kansas.
American Furniture Agency offers factory direct shipments from Chicago with six cents postage for a large catalog. Special baby carriage catalog with sixty three new styles mailed free. Includes locations in Brambles, Galena, and Kansas.
A column traces the lineage of mothers meetings from early New England roots to today’s WCTU, highlighting pioneers in Braintree Massachusetts and Oberlin, with focus on prayer, child nurture, and daily discipline. It notes the central aim of training children in faith and virtue through sustained prayer and study.
The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette lists fashionDonts urging restraint in dress and grooming. It cautions against overbold styling, sacrificing fit for fashion, and ostentation. It warns against flashy hats, cheap imitations, and neglecting quality for quantity while stressing that dress should suit the wearer and occasion.
Roanoke Virginia based Virginia College for young ladies led by Dr W A Harris sits on a ten acre campus with mountain scenery. The school offers ample study including European and American teachers and counts 190 students from twenty states. Descriptive catalogue requests to W A Harris D D Roanoke Virginia.
BeeHive Drug Store advertises travel guidance for routes across the West, touting the Great McKengle Route with facilities for families and a single change of care from Atlanta to Memphis Chicago. It lists agents in Chattanooga Tennessee and promotes Ramon’s Nerve and Bone Oil for rheumatism and sores alongside Dr. Price’s Cream Baking Powder.
The article outlines summer wear trends including twined titled grass fabrics, lace mantles with batistes, silk mouses with narrow trims, and elbow sleeves using long lace for daytime wear. It details skirts in varying colors and fabrics, the Queen Anna sleeve as a key evening model, and pale silk tafteta walats with Dresden patterning and hairline color stripes.
Watauga,Mt dohwon and Miss Donnie Cameron of Elizabethton visited relatives and friends last Thursday. Charins Care and wife and Prof. Richard Garner the African explorer were here last week visiting family. Others include Cr. Taylor of Morristown, Misses Massengill from Piney Woods, Lewis E. Jarrell from Ohio, J. Bean of Atlanta and A. D. Little of Rome selling carloads to RW. Smalling. Rev. M. D. Mitchell preached. carpenters worked on Dr J. W. Wallace’s house and the tannery building roof was updated. An advertisement for Compound Oxygen Treatment promises cures for asthma and other ailments and offers free consultation from Dre. Starkey & Palen in Philadelphia. Also notes on a nursery company seeking spring stock and wholesale sales in Winchester, Tennessee.
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