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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1894
Page
1
At 4:45 this morning fire gutted the Gunther residence on 7th street near E W King's. Firemen arrived too late to save the building. only the shell remained. Contents valued with the house at 600 dollars and goods insured for the same. The origin remains unknown as the family was asleep.
Professor A M Greenlee of the University of Tennessee spoke at a Presbyterian church gathering last Thursday night on the novel and its relations to intellectual education. He has a new novel published by S R B Newman & Co Knoxville and gave an engaging talk. Afterward, ladies offered refreshments and the lecture was well received.
The piece defends a Democratic board over the Johnson City school project and bidding ethics, disputes Painter & Galloway contract claims, and attacks a Stauf editor. It recounts a legal case involving Henry marshal and local warrants, with witness Doc Love’s testimony and Commissioner Mathes’s acquittal.
In a lively Johnson City section, local gossip covers politics in Washington County, upcoming campaigns, and marriages. The piece details Thad Cox and Miss Nellie Brownlow’s quiet Tuesday wedding, Frank Sparks’s Bristol nuptials to a Bristol bride, hotel renovations, and community chatter about elections, locals, and social events.
Charles Phillips and Alexander Campbell were arrested on a warrant from an insurance company charging arson at W. Phillips saloon and billiard room on March 6. The suspects deny involvement, claim they learned of the fire only when firemen arrived, and were bound over to court in $2000 bonds. Phillips is a brother of the building owner who ran the business.
Diness Enterprise led by B L Braner offers a free one year subscription to several papers with every $10 purchase. Customers choosing from Tie Conmt the Staff Bristol Courier Jonesboro Herald and Erwin Magnet receive a year of free reading. Also promotes data and corn and hay supplies from M George & Co warehouse on Narrow Gauge railroad Jobo Street.
A short note advises readers to obtain coal from L. O. Cartright & Co. at the old F. M. George stand on Cherry street, promoting the local supply option.
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