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Newspaper

Comet

Location

Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America

Date

Mar 14, 1912

Page

3

Repela Attack of Death and Dr King’s Discovery

Five years ago two doctors told Stillman Green he had two years to live from consumption. He began using Dr King’s New Discovery and now works, believing the throat and lung cure saved his life. Local notes report visitors, business, and social visits across Bristol, Johnson City, and nearby towns, with arrivals from Milligan, Erwin, Elk Park, and Morristown.

Stillman Green Malachite Col Dr. King Hcim H.C. Ler's

New Duplex Phonograph Enables Continuous Opera in Paris

A new duplex phonograph in Paris allows hours of uninterrupted performance. The device produced the Carmen opera using about sixty records, enabling a full playback without breaks.

Paris

City Transfer Co Heavy Hauling Service Ad

City Transfer Co offers heavy and light hauling with careful handling at reasonable prices. Trunks called for and delivered within half a mile of the station for 25 and 35 cents. Phone 196 for prompt service.

Deafness Cure Claimed Only By Constitutional Remedies

An advertisement asserts deafness cannot be cured by local applications. It blames inflammation of the Eustachian tube and mucous linings, promising Hall's Catarrh Cure as the solution. The firm J Casey & Co of Toledo offers a $100 reward for a deafness case not cured.

Hall J. Casey & Co Toledo

Railways Admit Big Wage Increases Despite Fewer Employees

The Interstate Commerce Commission reports show 1911 wage costs for railways over 500 miles rose sharply, totaling 1,0627,240 with a 41,868,822 higher wage bill than 1910 and 69,297,078 above 1909. Even as payrolls shrank by 81,037, total compensation grew by 49,076,216, widening the gap with earnings and reducing net railway revenues by about 40,989,589.

Interstate Commerce Commission Bureau of Railway Economics

Presbytery of Holston to Meet in Erwin Church

The presbytery of Holston will meet in the Bewin Presbyterian church at Erwin Unicoi county Tennessee on Wednesday April 17 1912 at 730 PM MO S Hakin Stated Clerk.

Holston Bewin Presbyterian Church Erwin Unicoi County Teen

E Spencer Blackburn Dies Suddenlly in Elizabethton Tenn

Elizabethton Tennessee records the death of E Spencer Blackburn formerly a North Carolina eighth district congressman. He died last night from a heart attack brought on by a severe cold and threatened pneumonia. Burial is planned in Byrne North Carolina and his wife and two children are in Washington. He had practiced law in Wisebethton about a year.

Elizabethton Tenn Spencer Blackburn North Carolina Byone N. C

Mrs E H Willis Dies At Boone's Creek Home

Mrs. E. H. Willis, 25, died at her Boone's Creek residence Saturday. A Baptist church member, she is survived by her husband and two young children. Funeral services were held Sunday at 9:30 a.m. at the family home, with interment at Indian Springs in Sullivan county.

EH. Willis Boone's Creek

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