Cabana Mixture and assorted goods ad in old Carolina paper
Tobacco brands Cabana Mixture and West Hour ad tone offer smokable blends, teas, and coal products. References to Jackson's, Tellico, Ping Mountain Coal, and local delivery with cash on delivery. Postings include for sale slabs of wool, traveling salesman line, and a manufacturer recruitment note from Covington Kentucky.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tyomine & Co
Tellico
Ping Mountain
Gilead Bude
Joseph Powell
Abingdon
Virginia
Nice
J. W. Cass
Local column notes missing items and arrivals
A crowded local column records purchases and sales at Jacksons and Tacknons, social visits to Jonesboro and Elk Park, moves to Geneva New York, and notes on soldiers, jockeys and a preacher. Also mentions hostess Mrs Kate Wilson, and business updates from Cargille Novelty and Art, Wilder Stratton illness, and Prof Humphreys moving to Morristown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paylor Biart
Cargille Novelty and Art Store
Wilder Stratton
F. A. Stratton
Kate Wilson
Jonesboro
Mike Tiger and Mrs Goo L Smith tale curtailed visit
A garbled note recounts Mike Tiger and Mrs Goo L Smith planning travel from Manila to Canada with a husband joining in, noting expansionist aims and a regret that trade outgrew a small place. It also reports a public railway headlight upgrade, a new granolithic sidewalk contract on Main Street, and a model drug store on Roan Mountain. The piece ends by promoting a song from Greene Music Publishing Co. and a small-town obituary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mike Tiger Las
Goo. L. Smith
Hin Famonadron
Johnson City Club
Manila
Canada
Mike
Herald and Tribune
America
Watauga Telephone Extends Line Toward Roan Mountain
The Watauga Telephone Company will extend its line from Allentown to Roan Mountain this week and then toward Elk Park NC connecting with Bakernville and other NC points. A branch line already serves R L Bruger's store at Forge Mining Co. works near Roan Mountain. Keep Quice and use Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy for pains of the stomach and all unnatural looseness to the bowels. It cures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caniwonxia Fro Syrup Co
Cara Pornia Tia S ¥Ind Co
Roan Mountain Dr
B. Wood
Wood
Forge Mining Company
Watauga Telephone Company
Roan Mountain
Allentown
Elk Park
N. C
Bakernville
North Carolina
R. L. Bruger
Forge Mining Co
Hhrough
Johnson City
Age Limit Blocks Army Commissions for Veterans
The new army reorganization sets a 27 year age limit for officers. The President cannot commission anyone over 27, affecting many former volunteers seeking commissions. Col. J. P. Fyffe and Lieut. Col. D. M. Coffaan are in Washington pursuing commissions under this rule.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Third Tennesees
J. P. Fyffe
D. M. Coffaan
Washington
Tre Coser Invites for Helen Reeves Patterson Nuptials
Judge and Mrs M Patterson request your presence at the marriage of their daughter Helen Reeves to Mr Alvin Craig on Tuesday morning March twenty first eighteen ninety nine at nine oclock at their home Vineland Tennessee. Miss Helen has many friends in this city who will join Tre Comer in congratulations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Humphreys
Johnson City
Morristown
Tue Costwn
Pennsylvania
Wing & Hornicls
Pennsylvania Tanning Company
Tre Coser
M. Patterson
Helen Reeves
Alvin Craig
Vineland
Tennessee
Helen
Tre Comer
Prison Labor and Good Roads Debate Grows
Judge John Gilc bank urged prohibition of products made by convict or prison labor in a Chicago address to the Single Tax Club. He linked good roads and clean streets to prison labor, urging reform and civic focus. News notes report railroad charter consolidation in North Carolina, a standard gauge project from Cranberry to Lincolnton, backed by Seaboard Air Line, with coal ambitions. A severe electrical storm followed by a heavy four inch rainfall caused extensive flood damage across Carter County, washing out farms, fences, and roads. Doo River rose anew with six foot rise in Roan Mountain hotel yard but no loss of life reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Single Tax Club
Chicago
John Gilcbank
E. T. & W. N. G. Railroad Company
Johnson City
General Hoke
North Carolina
E.l&w.n. C
Coser
Cranberry
Lincolnton
N. C
Seaboard Air Line
Seaboard
Ordor
Happy Valley
John
Thomas
Carter County
Roan Mountain
Allentown
Doo
Army bill stalls after 62,000 regulars deemed enough
Washington March 6 indicates no new appointments under the army bill as the President and War Department plan to operate with 62,000 regulars and reject enlistments for 87,000 more. General Corbin doubts new appointments until existing force can be managed, while young applicants and discharged volunteers face return home empty handed. Ross Smith resigns after 33 years with Southern Railway Knoxville division, likely to enter business in Jonesboro. his departure leaves his famed Roas Smith train unnamed locally. Captain Smith’s status is noted by conductor G W Jones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
War Department
Corbin
Volunteera
Ross Smith
Knoxville
The
Southern Railway
Jonesboro
Southern Road
Upper East Tennessee
Roas Smith
Cay Smith
Southern
iLik
Captain Smith
G. W. Jones
Knoxville Division
Journal and Tribune
Comedy at the Opera House in Richmond Va Next Week
The Daily Times praises Lilian Tucker Company for A Hero in Raga at the Academy of Music, with Miss Lilian Tucker and Charles Vaught highlighted. Shows run Monday with seats on sale. 8 PM curtain. Also notes M Dyer Co promoting Carbonic Automat beer system and Sunny South beer at Piedmont House.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daily Times
Richmond
Lilian Tucker
Opera
Mias Lilian Tucker
Chas
O. Vaught
Academy of Music
Hattie
Charles Vaught
Jerry
M. Dyer & Co
Mother Earth
Dumeroud
Hax
Upper East Tennes
Fee
Piedmont House
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California Fig Syrup CO
BAN Thangison
Cal
Jonaten
Motel
Piedwont Ac
Southern Depot
Hirewer's
Dr. Tongley
Nat Tipder
Quitine
Hemine
Chase & Sanborn
Tackson's
Outtolin, Ciestos Mya. Co
Cheatoa, On
Walnut Street
A. M.D. Cuter
Parke
City Grocery Co
Covington
Adtress
Cleveland
Ola
George R. Brown
Sinetrmatl
Olio
Uae
Gquoyn
Jackson
Sckwon
Tingan
Tuckson’s
Ralston Breakfast
Jackson's
Tacknon's
DeLong Ries Hans Retuegnd
W. W. Uaw
Nashville
Louis D. Gomp
Liln
Bessie Lyle
Hawkins
M. F. Powers
Bristol
J. 1
Keith
M. E. Church
Lynn Hahn
Cranberry Inn
P. A. Ponder
Mrs. B. Y. Pendleton
Erwin
E. P. Smith
Geneva
New York
8Th Regiment
Wm. TE. Uptegrave
City
W. P. Reever
Roney Shoe Co
H. W. Lyle
New New York
Warren McMackin
Focal
OG. H. Jennings
Charlie
Chee
U 5. Army
Andy Leonard
Bot and Machine Works
J. G. Stone & Co
Jas. G. Chandler
Lilian Tucker Company
Mr. Chandler
Ben
Wm. B. Chandler
Chamberlain
J. A. Cargille
Elizabethton
East Tenn, & W. N
Ik Park
N.C
Bool
Encycloparka Brittoonia
Ayer
W. Fan
J. B. McKeehan
John W. Boring
Tho National Plow Handle Manufacturers ® Association
Cincinnati
Boring
Comer
Mra
Brune
S. B. White
George E. Williams
George Ed. Willacus
Thi City
Bonthern Railway
Chattanooga Knoxville
Knoxville and Ohio
BR. Scharf
Bristol Paving Company
Main Street
Bown Street
Thos, Delaney
Greene Music Publishing Co
Fifth St
Ohio
Ward & Friberg
Tek
Spring Milliinery
Helen M. Benson
Baltimore
Gertrude Mitchell
Hawkins Bros
R. L. & B. Bruner
N. Y
Broadway
Eagle Building
Cargille’s Novelty and Art Store
Spring Street
Johnson City, Tenn
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