Tennessee news items from Greene County era
Greene County levies eighty cents tax. Newport mill ships regularly. George Rutherford of Riceville elopes with brother’s wife Doodle Deberry. Hoss Hembree jailed awaiting Kingston murder trial. Large corn plantings in Washington County. Erwin Presbyterians form Sunday School. R C Pearson to start Bristol revival May 9. Charles Alexander of Gallatin dies in garden. Baptists favor Bristol for Southern Association 1808. Morristown Ice Factory started. Jonesboro stage and blind factory plus electric plant planned. Two calves sold at Morristown. largest weighs 1087 pounds. Prison board seeks engine for Brushy Mountain plant. Kintakahashi returns from north with plan for Y M C A building. bricks burned. New England visitors to Bristol. aim to relocate south. Reward offered for untreatable catarrh by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. Colonel Jesse E Peyton dies. famed as father of centennials. Senate loyalty debated after Olney Cuba remarks. tension with Senate. Dr Bell’s Pine-Two-Honey touted by user. testimonial letters. Howard B Hackett, NY World sporting editor, dead.
Young Americans Sail To Help Greece In War Effort
A group of twenty six American youths from New York and other cities sailed from New York on the steamship La Gascogne on May 3 to join Greek forces at Athens. They march amid cheering crowds, will be issued uniforms and weapons, and are greeted with U S and Greek flags as they depart. A related passage notes postwar recovery in the New South and a cloudburst near Guthrie, Oklahoma, causing extensive damage and loss of life.
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New York
la Gascogne
Greece
Boston
Chicago
Philadelphia
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Athens
United States
South
Chicago Inter- Ocean
Ancient Easenic Order in session and currency notes in NYC
The Ancient Easenic Order holds a sea sion in Nashville. Mexican dollars are valued at 483-8 in New York. A speech notes that Greek meets Greek then tug of war with Turks. Mississippi box news lifts flood spirits. Australia invested 1500 in American wheels. About 90,000 negras in Washington County Mississippi rely on whites for food. William L. Skinner of 2600 Locust Street St Louis claims an invisible electrical patent and seeks government judgment on royalty. Three witnesses ready to testify to its efficacy.
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St. Louis
William L. Skinner
Skinner
Defeated Senator Blackburn lashes out at opposition
In Frankfort a defeated Senate candidate Mr J Blackburn denounces his rivals in a fiery post election speech calling the issue two of the liveliest corpses in Kentucky politics. The clipping also notes Mrs Rachel Fury of Circleville Ohio aged 85 wheeling a bicycle at a home and hospital grounds, and advertorial notes for De Bell's Pine Tar Honey and druggists guarantees.
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Blackburn
Senate
Frankfort Opera House
Kentucky
Circleville
Ohio
Rachel Fury
Home and Hospital
Compound Oxygen Promise Claims Health Revival
A dubious pitch asserts enriched oxygen and magnet aid can restore health and vitality. The text touts a Compound Oxygen treatment as superior and invites readers to write for treaties and proof, offering office and home treatments to “well” or ill patients.
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Koopa
Vince
Sen Foo
Ordall
Notice of Sale by United States Savings and Loan Co
Notice states mortgage on property in Johnson City Tennessee to United States Savings and Loan Co. will be sold at public auction in front of the court house door Jonesboro on a Saturday in May 1897. Lot 87, block 17, Johnson City Real Estate Co. addition. Sale contingent on debt and costs. Thad A. Cox attorney. Also notices Southern Railway selling Wilmington bound tickets May 4 to 7 for a Southern Baptist Convention meeting May 6 to 14 in 1807.
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Register
Jonesboro
Tennessee
G. B. O'Brien
Lydia E. O'Brien
Johnson City
Watauga Land Company
Unaka Avenue
Costa
United States Savings & Loan Co
T. A. Cox
Ag.t
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David R
Martha J. Roas
Tenn
Court House
Tennewee
Walnut Street
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Thad A. Cox
Southern Baptist Convention
Wilmington
N. Y
Southern Railway
N. C
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