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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1898
Page
1
A humorous fable shows birds vying for kingship. After boasts from the eagle bee martin and buzzard, a clever duck is crowned king by dawn’s first light, while the original contenders protest and the crowing tale ends with a hoarse drake. The tale blends whimsy with a moral on vanity.
The Escorial palace near Madrid rises 25 miles northwest atop a mountain and dominates the landscape. Begun in 1563 and completed for vast cost, it commemorates Philip II and the St Quentin battle. The immense complex includes a cathedral monastery 600 cells, libraries, hospitals, and a grand church modeled on St Peter's, with a vast altars and arterially arranged halls.
Fragmented text references Texas and the West, a railway agent traveling to Kesasville Tennessee. Mentions about money, information access, and a passenger path with few legible details. No clear events, dates, or names can be confirmed from the readable portion.
A Washington dispatch reports Secretary Long sent a commendation letter to Assistant Naval Constructor Hobson for sinking the collier Merrimac in Santiago de Cuba harbor. The letter notes readiness, resourcefulness, and extraordinary heroism, while a Congressional transfer to the line with lieutenant commander rank is under consideration.
A Philadelphia man credits Electric Bitters with curing a near fatal illness after four weeks of treatment. He suffered yellow skin, sinking eyes, coated tongue, and weakness, and says three doctors gave up. He now praises the remedy and urges others to try it, noting its effects on digestion and liver function.
Edwin Emerson Jr contributes a Porto Rico travel piece for the Review of Reviews, with wartime context as U S troops move there after Bantingo. McKinley war crisis coverage in McClure's Magazine shows official life at White House and departments with wartime scenes. The July Scribner's features Davis on the First Shot and bombardment, plus photographs. Dr A Mona Lessery discusses non alcoholic treatment in Havana relief, Barton and famine, with abstinence emphasized as aiding recovery.
A Michigan man buys 400 acres of timber land in Tennessee only to find six squatter families. He meets their leader Bill Thompson and faces threats, local bias, and attempts to force him from the land with vague promises of rent or sale. The confrontation ends as the buyer opts to sell rather than seize possession and leave.
For the Seventeenth International Christian Endeavor Convention in Nashville July 1804 the Southern Railway will sell round trip tickets from points on its lines to Nashville Tennessee at one fare. Tickets good July 1 to 6 with return by July 1805. return extension possible to August 15 1808. Prominent speakers expected and information available from Southern Railway agents.
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