County Election Notices and Campaign Updates Highlight Local Contests
Readers learn of the Jones Chain Drive Mower contest with countywide voting in Washington Carter and Unicoi, alongside a May 3 cutoff. Reports cover army bill debates in Congress, a Soldiers' Home measure for Johnson City, and local theater confusion. Also listed are school board election details with numerous district judges clerks and polling sites.
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Tm Comet
Washington
Carter
Unicoi County
Box Bagan
W. W. DeVault
St. John
H. B. Houston
Anderson
Bob Bowman
W. P. Brownlow
Senate Committee On Military Affairs
Senate
Soldiers
Johnson City
Letter Opposing McKinley urges Bryan for liberty
Captain Patrick O Perrell of Washington, an abolitionist and Civil War veteran, denounces McKinley and imperialism. He urges Republicans to back William J Bryan in the next campaign to preserve liberty and oppose imperial tyranny as voiced in the Commercial Appeal edition.
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Patrick O'Perrell
Washington
Hoar T
Jefferson
Lincoln
William McKinley
Rome
T Lo
McKinley
Republican Party
William J. Bryan
Republicana
Bryan
Liberty
Watauga Notes from Watauga Tenn April 1900
Local notes report visits and arrivals from Green Town Kentucky to Austin Springs Tennessee. Several residents move or travel including William Lyons and wife to Whitesburg and T J Lipton returning to Washington College. A Jersey heifer was killed, church services were held, and construction projects progress at Dr Wallace home and Watauga Valley Lumber Co facility.
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Watauga
Tenn
Ray
George McDonald
Greentown
William Lyons
Whitesburg
Mr. Lyons
Southern Railway
Misa Ethel Reese
Elizabethton
Roy, Bowie
Los Angeles
Cal
Odd Mellows
James Worley
The
Firma of Gump, Mathes & Co
T. J. Lipton
Washington College
John Crow
Austin Springs
Geo. A. Reeve
A. K. Lacy
Wallace
Piney Mata
Henry and
Thomas Hendrick
Robert Earhart
Bristol
Strayed or Stolen Bay Horse Reward Offered
A large bay horse about 17 hands high eight years old with a short mane and fox tail is missing. A five dollar reward is offered for its return to Jolnaon City Tennessee. Davin Previar.
Devil would run the paper like a tyrant says ex governor
Ex governor John P. St. John imagines how the devil would edit a newspaper, outlining a scathing, satirical portrait of a hypothetical Batavia Majesty. He predicts a religious tone, clashes over liberty and slavery, tariffs on the poor, and support for brutal imperial actions, with the paper backing war and opposing self government abroad.
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Atchison Champion
John P St. John
Batavia
Sultan Wut
Sulu
Tts
Columas
Milwaukee
South Africa
United States
Porto Risans
Klondike Jointiste
Mekhin- Joy
Bryan
Mark Hanna
Joux P. Se
Jou
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Ovil Lye
Publisiad
Chiago
Miles
Corbin
West Point
Jones
Arkansas
James Kimery
Henley
Howard Waddell
Sam’ Bhiolda
Broyles
John Chase
W. EB. Broyles
Mack Wagner
A. D. More
James Campbell
Robt
Ford
A.burly
T. A. Radford
J.C. Berry
W. A. Garber
EB. Wilson
BR. N
Henry Crouch
Wm. Braswell
J. B.C. Towir
Sam Ponder
FP. Campbell
Will ST. Swadley
I. N
Humphreys
W. A. Reeves
J.D. Thomas
J. A. Prichett
W. B. Bowman
Dr. Clark
J. A. Worley
Will Carter
and Galloway
D. Hale
Hale
C. Hartman
B.D. Brabson
R. A. Ferguson
W. Je Keys
E. Shipley
J. C. More
T. B. Clepper
H. A. Green
James Williams
Joe Miller
J. F
Laws
Qst
Wm. Harris
James A. West
James Smith
H. P. Cloyd
Northington
Alin Squibb
2Nd
W. H. Cox
J. W.J. Keener
Joseph Morrell
Jos, Carter
John Chinoweth
Jas
B Macafaan
B. Bence
Chas, Williams
J. M. Nave
T. A. R. Reming
A. M. Propat
Seif Mel Uracken
T. Bowman
Tohn Sanders
Alex Bayless
J Gold
B. Armentrout
A. 2. Green
Sun District
Oak Dell
Lamar
Greenwood
Ith
Barnes
Princeton
Seminary
Campbell
Limestone
Cherokee Seminary
Woodland
Conkling
Arnold
Law Court House
W. Murray
Jonesboro
Marcel
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County Election Commissioners
Manila
Willie
Coster
Maury Democrat
Hemory
Coreaes Exuie
Jolnaon City, Tenn
Davin Previar
Armonia
Andrels
Palin Haanoahow
Miles’ Patn Pitts
Moyol
Highwland
Nake
Hritien War Office
Suto
Pretoria
Main Street
Boring and Trumley & Lyle
Emil Rahm
Home Bakery Co
CS. G. Witchell
Tatan
Offles
Austin Sirings
Mra
J. R. Englebert
Pro
Johson City
Watanga River
Venn
Market Street
J. S. Galliher & CO
United States of America
J. B. Cox
Jam B. Cox
Prebie SpLow
Wousewonk Tive
A. K. Fainbank Company
Chteney
el Lave
New York
Nao
Providence
Cghtin
Duffy's
the Gry
Poole
Rochester
Jd? Beoss
Chattanooga
T. P. A. Livery Stable
W. G. Knapp
Thos. Turner
Cherry St
Empire Lumber and Mig Co
Buffalo St
D. J. Hickman
W. P. Cooper
Treas
F. M. Burton
Roseville, Ohio
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