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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1900
Page
3
An advertisement for a remedy claimed to cure a cold rapidly urges readers not to ignore a cold as it can be dangerous. The notice promotes Chase & Sanborn teas and coffees as best, selling exclusively at Jacksons for $9.
City visitors and residents are listed with social calls and errands through the week. Local business leaders Gabe Harris and A. N. Shoun appear, while the Hub offers spring tailor made suits. Easter events, church notices, and property moves are reported alongside a pension bill for Mexican War veterans and a local octogenarian birthday.
Mr J W Van Osten, a cutter and tailor from Columbia, joins Mr W B Crouch in Johnson City to run his workroom and bring his family soon. A wedding is planned next Thursday between Lieut Samuel S Kirkpatrick and Miss Anna M Pandorat of Jonesboro. Revival notes from Athens reach First Presbyterian church with daily services.
A guaranteed cure for piles is offered with PAZO OINTMENT. Druggets authorize refunds if it fails. Cures ordinary cases in six days and worst cases in sixteen. One application provides relief and itching stops instantly. Sold with a positive guarantee in Johnson City Tennessee by local druggists.
The public schools begin preparations for closing around May 24 as the largest graduating class ever, with seventeen seniors named. Dr. Davidson will preach the graduation sermon at the opera house, and Mr. H. H. Dyer will address the claus as alumni representative. Johnson City high school records higher enrollment and attendance than any East Tennessee city.
A series of meetings will begin at the M B E Church followed by a week of prayer and feasting at the First Presbyterian Church. Gov Taylor plans to move to Knoxville with his furniture loaded for shipment. Mrs Taylor and the children have left San Antonio for Knoxville. Maj George T Lee will soon lecture in Johnson City on the Old Virginia Nig ger theme. The date will be announced later.
Nelson Campbell returns from Rome Georgia after two months at the South a military academy preparation. He has been notified by the war department that he passed required exams but the Principal appointee also passed, delaying his admittance to the academy.
In Cannon county a suit seeks to curb Mingle and Brevard from suing the Woodbury Press after an injunction granted by Judge John W. Christress in Nashville. Mingle accuses Barton and allies of blocking distribution of a paper criticizing the primary. Complainants say the action harms property. case moved to the local chancellor. There is intense feeling over the matter.
Seed sweet potato varieties listed or advertised including Kentucky White and Southern Queen with a quantity or grade noted as 0. The fragment suggests a seed catalog or sale notice rather than a full article. No additional context or entities are readable to expand.
Representative Underwood and Brownlow push bills for McMeans and Self with Union University aid. court of appeals may convene in Knoxville in April. Cases heard include Chandler vs. Johnson City and Frances vs. Watauga Lumber. Dentists touts unsafe painless extraction claims amid rebuttal by Dr J R Krxa.
Matthew Hardin, about 23, described as estimable and well liked by both black and white, died instantly when the elevator rope broke at about 80 feet and platform tumbled to the ground with ore. The incident occurred Monday morning at the Carnegie furnace, leaving Hardin mashed nearly pulp. The report also notes library news from Johnson City Public Library including book loans, new purchases, and catalog sales, plus an advertisement for Green's August Flower remedy.
The ceremony joined Henry Collins and Ada Milhorn in marriage days ago. Henry once played the devil in The Commr office, now chief engineer at Uptogrove & Bro veneer factory. Ada is described as a lively, capable young woman who will be a loyal helper to her husband.
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