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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1890
Page
1
Hart Arbrust & co advertise summer dress goods featuring French Plaids Mohair Brilliantine Henrietta Cloth Nun s veiling and a large line of sash ribbons trimming and trimmings. They offer low prices with a range of Sarah pattern stripes and brocade stripes in pale shades.
In this department we present great bargains on ribbons and corsets with a handsome display. Special attention is drawn to the latest importation French Woven Corset sure to win favor.
A display highlights a large assortment of domestic wash fabrics including Satteens Ginghams Lawns Charlies chambray and prints. Special emphasis is placed on Scotch Zephyrs with fast colors and high quality. Prices are listed as popular.
Long verbose notice covers Hart Armburst & Co building details and Tennessee highway debates. It includes House Bills 22 and 28 authorizing Johnson City to issue bonds for stable buildings and for street improvements, with election rules and debt limits. Historical text also lists unrelated notices and ads.
A midwestern newspaper ad touts Shiloh's Catarrh Remedy and Dr. Acker's English Remedies with guarantees, sample offers, nasal injectors, and low prices. It mentions Kirkpatrick Wofford Miller as druggists and references Clarke's Extract of Flax and Clarke's Plax Soap with praise from McParland & Co. druggists.
A portrait feature profiles Commodore DT Wilton born Brooklyn May 11 1840. He rose from Brooklyn Navy Yard apprentice to naval constructor chief of the Bureau of Construction and Repairs, designing ships like the Chicago Boston Atlanta Newark San Francisco Concord Yorktown Bennington Petrel and Maine and authoring Shipbuilding Theoretical and Practical. The piece notes his career and achievements along with partisan political commentary on Iowa and the Democratic party.
Nasaville reports Capt. 8. T. Harris and Capt. Frank Battle, once condemned to death and held as hostages for each other, reconciled in Nashville. They shared a room for a night, spoke of perilous war years, and returned to peacetime life as brothers of a common family. Also notes McMinn county GOP chair, Mrs. Lovel Greeley death, and political moves in Washington and Blair’s stance.
An old advertisement urges a spring regimen to cleanse the blood and body. It touts B B B as a simple vegetable medicine that purports to purify blood, improve skin, and boost energy. Sent from Swift Broadhead Co of Atlanta, Ga.
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