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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1911
Page
8
Grace Bedell, a New York girl, wrote to Abraham Lincoln suggesting whiskers to suit his face. Lincoln replied with a letter and later, on campaign, he thanked her by embracing the girl and saying he grew whiskers for her. The tale blends myth and fact from 1860s political life.
Watauga Tennessee notes march reports funerals travel and visits at Highland cemetery Elizabethton Piney Flats Chattaga Nashville and Knoxville lodge meetings and relatives’ goings. Mentions Buford Lorimer J H Woodby Huntsman Bros and Elkanah Shell family illness and local shuffles. Also a legal business ad for Hulls Catarrh Cure promising one hundred dollars per case cured.
Squire Robert J. Orr of Belfast, a leading Marshall County resident, has just begun his ninety ninth year. He remains mentally agile and physically strong, with hopeful prospects of reaching a full century. The notice references Dr Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin and a sample offer from the Pepdin Sytto Cos, urging readers to try the remedy.
Nashville march 10 governor hooper after a personal investigation of the mental condition of powers gentry of monroe county now in davidson county jail under sentence to hang next monday has announced that the sentence would be commuted to life imprisonment gentry is an imbecile it was found he could not tell who his lawyer was or anything about the trial
Washington reports Knoxville may become the headquarters of the National Conservation Commission which plans to spend 11 million dollars to acquire forest reserves near the Appalachian White Mountains. Representative Austin Kux urges the move to Chairman Secretary of War Dickinson and others. no decision soon.
A fragmentary note on Ieland's apple output references a claim of high production. A child answered a question about identity with a swift reply implying a personal connection to a father or guardian, illustrating a whimsical or unscripted moment amid the report.
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