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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1891
Page
2
The issue blends editorials on commerce and land sales with a family inheritance dispute. It urges fair land prices to attract manufacturers to Johnson City, discusses wartime losses, and recounts a long running property dispute where George B. McClellan seeks a $60,000 estate.
The Nebraska Commissioner of Labor and Industrial Statistics studied Sarpy county farm mortgages and found 40,015 of 141,109 acres mortgaged. Sixty percent of debt funds land and improvements, 20 percent for business investments, 15 percent remaining unaccounted. Bad crops and misfortune caused little debt. Farmers borrow to expand, not out of necessity, and farming here is profitable and promising.
A sensational Circuit Court suit filed today names George B. McClvhan a prosperous county planter who left wife and infant son to join the rebellion. He entrusted the boy to a younger brother who claimed youth for conscription but had been a man for years. The narrative notes tense family estrangement beginning after the war.
Wheat harvest near in southern Tennessee next week. Rutherford area strawberry production to expand next year. Viola musician W C Gardenhire in Dayton owns an 1742 violin of uncertain Stradivarius origin. Ducktown copper region sees many prospectors and active mines. Immigrant intake to New York reached 400000 in 1890.London Paris telephone in operation. Waterproof boiled tolerant paper invented. Silver pig bristle penwiper commercial novelty. Pambutano replaces quinine as a shrub root extract. Hydrazoic acid discovered for metals dissolution and strong odor. An electric train at 125 mph would need 7000 feet to stop.
In Knoxville circuit court George R. Eager wins a 384000 judgment against the Knoxville Southern for back payments. Heavy rains devastate the wheat crop. In Kansas Torexa President Polk of the national farmers alliance orders mass meetings in September to boost the new peoples party, with district and county gatherings planned to rally support.
A fire at Campbell & Co. cotton mill in Manayunk caused damage and water loss estimated at 250000 dollars. Weavers Crenshaw & Co. occupied part of the mill and faced 75000 dollars in losses. Total insurance coverage reported at 281500 dollars.
The author writes from a dining car on May 5 about the busy life behind the scenes. He explains that dining car work involves managing cooks, waiters, and supplies, and keeping strict stock. He reflects on his earlier assumption that the job required only a pleasant smile.
A travel writer recounts dining car routines and cash handling aboard a fast train, detailing checks, stock lists, and the odorous ice cream memories of Delmonico and a Texas town. He jokes about Drexel Morgan and Co. and a Texan jailed by bankers after a mistaken Kansas City claim.
In spring 1882 near York’s ranch on the Gila river Knox, with wife and child, faced a Apache volley and held them off with a Winchester. He died defending his party. forty-two attackers and seven killed, with his body spared by the Indians as a tribute. The tale also recalls Charlie the parrot who mimicked his mistress and her daughter.
A quirky tale follows Jack Slocum a beardless youth who seeks romance through a druggist. arsenic rumored as a shortcut to marriage ends with a magical transformation. A second item muses on the Earth’s vast journeys spinning on its axis orbiting the sun and the traveler’s minute stroll becoming astronomical.
The New York Sun notes French professional schools for girls admit only 13 to 18 year olds, teach trades such as sewing and millinery, do not house students, cap enrollment under 200, and include Elise Lemonnier schools and a Victor Cousin section open to women with evening classes and simple entry.
A journal entry recalls Mabel describing a vivid sensation after striking her elbow on a bed carving. She sighs “Oh mam I’ve strucked my arm just where it makes stars in my fingers,” presenting a personal reaction to pain and dreamlike imagery.
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