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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1886
Page
3
Johnson City notices recount local ads and chatter about residents and visitors including Mr. A.J. Barnes, Prof. and Mrs. T. Lusk, Mr. E. A. Vick, and J.P. Crumley. Multiple items cover business tip trips, hardware and plow sales, seed and farming gear, upcoming events, church activities, and public meetings in Johnson City and surrounding Hamblen County.
A local ad offers cheap one dollar and five dollar bills with no clear details. A lost five dollar bill is sought between L H P Lusk and C K Lide with a reward for returning it to either. A temperance meeting is announced at Oak Grove Schoolhouse on the upcoming Sunday at 2 30 PM with Crusaders speakers from nearby areas.
J B Hash has secured the agency for Dr King's New Discovery for Consumption and will sell it with a positive guarantee. A trial bottle is offered free to prove its alleged efficacy for throat lung and chest ailments.
The article notes common childhood illnesses like measles mumps and whooping cough and asserts Mrs Winslow's Vermifuge can expel worms quickly. It emphasizes unavoidable ailments and urges relief from intestinal worms.
A fragmentary notice touts the Grand Union Hotel opposite Grand Central Depot. It promises elegant rooms from 61.00 per plan, elevator service, and restaurant, with convenient access to depots and rail lines. The terse item mentions wages, car hire, and services for travelers, reflecting a period hotel promotion tone.
Non resident defendant Win Hokey is ordered to publish four weeks in Johnson City Corner notifying appearance before the Chancery Court at Jonesboro Court House on the specified May Monday to defend the bill or face default. Clerk A B Bowman sets the matter for process, February 1 1886, W R Yorxo.
Executors announce a March 17 1886 sale of a 76 acre farm in Washington county Tennessee two miles west of Johnson City. The land includes 60 acres cleared with woodland and will be sold in parcels then as a whole. One half price due in one year and the other half in two years with notes and solvent sureties and a lien until paid. A land map will be shown at the Johnson City post office from March 17 onward.
An advertisement touts Scott's Turnin Specie Medicine claiming cures for seminal weakness impotency and other nervous diseases. It offers pamphlets free and products sold by agents from Minneapolis Minnesota with a money back guarantee and a London inventor signature.
A fragmented OCR style notice advertises a free fashion magazine with unclear claims. It mentions a 16 page publication, branding by PASSION MAGAZINE CO, and a PO BOX address. The text is garbled and reads like an ad insert with incomplete phrases and names.
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