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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1898
Page
3
Notes list numerous local residents and visitors in Jonesboro and surrounding towns. Mentions Dr Stewart, Mrs R Bood, H R Meade, Rev John Heredon, Captain Ike Reeves, Mrs W A Nelson, and others. Mentions Lyle's Grocery, strawberry ice cream festival, hotel expansion at Piedmont, and a public library appeal.
A reader reports wartime hotel closure for winter and a rat infestation. Hat Cheese quickly cleared rats from hotel and intern dorms, with strong recommendation. Postscript mentions Doxes and Plantersme tea as remedies and local sale details.
Standard Oil plans a bulk station on a 100 by 125 foot site, with two large tanks for 15 000 gallons each, serving Bla City Rogersville and lines including EB T and WN OSR and the Ohio River route. W. A. Hunter named manager. Tennessee inspector appointment pending. local samples offered by J H Brolen & Co Chicago for Dr King's New Life Pills.
Hart and Smith showcase exclusive ready to wear styles in complete varieties. The store promotes low prices and asks customers to compare quality and price, listing Ducks and Organdies ten cents, Madras Cloth and F. O. Checks at varied city prices per yard and patterns per bundle.
Our white goods stock includes organ dies Swisses India linens piquas dimities mull s and nainsooks all prices.
Lace curtains from 75e per pair and drapery per yard at 10¢ Japanese fabric 10 with Silkoline 124 per yard and Art Denims 15¢ per yard. Large assortments all new offered.
The Holston Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church at Morristown heard reports of steady progress in membership and contributions. Rev. W C Cochrane of Bristol served as moderator and Rev John K Herndon as clerk. New commissioners to the general assembly were elected and Rev H L Newman was received from Florida’s Ruwane Presbytery to lead Newport and White Pine churches.
An advertisement extols Peruna as a universal remedy for spring illnesses including blood cleansing and nervous debility. It claims wide medical and public endorsement, notes benefits for dyspeptics and chronic catarrh, and offers a free instructional book from the Peruna Drug Manufacturing Company in Columbus, Ohio.
Sew Factory and E F Smith supervise the new operation with Mr Spencer of New York leasing forty by sixty feet in the Poundry and Machine shop moulding department. The Johnson City Veneer Factory will begin machinery installation and aims to set a high national standard for veneer work.
The article praises Johnson City as a lively town with good citizens, strong growth, and Mountaineer opportunities. It notes need for a public building, court office, and auditorium, and highlights Walter Hunter’s honor as a Columbian society declaimer while listing local job ads and a political candidacy in Washington County.
Sheriff J. B. Provenert offers reward for arrest and conviction of the party or parties who set fire to James M. Bacon's barn on the night of April 8 1898. The notice calls for prompt reporting of information leading to indictment and conviction.
Humiliation from catarrh is avoidable with Dr Bell’s Pine Tar Honey a swift safe cure for head cold nose and throat catarrh. Sold by druggists with a money back guarantee if not cured.
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