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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1885
Page
3
J Chan and St John Jr retire from press life as Knoxville shops promote bargains in dress goods. W G Mathes & Bro lines up canned goods pickles and fruit while Liners rail about mill town visitors. A crowded scene with local notices, arrivals and a train sabotage scare color this late era snippet.
An 1885 notice details a Chicago Cottage Organ Company organ, its dimensions, black walnut case, gilded finish, four reed sets, and named stops. It notes a $150 value, five year warranty, and a drawing offering subscription draws with premiums. Local editorials praise Cottage Organs and promote subscription and related ads.
Subscribers may witness a Saturday drawing for a Domestic sewing machine valued at 35 dollars. Factory direct delivery, May 16th, at Lillen Nekon & Co. offer groceries and show new sewing machines in their expanded quarters with incentives for customers.
The East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad Company will hold its annual stockholders meeting at the company office in Elizabethton Carter County Tennessee on May 20 1885 between the hours of noon and 1 p m to elect four directors for the coming year and consider other business Secretary Jone B Winx notes the noticeTaxpayers in Waslingway District No 9 must pay 1984 taxes by May 20 to avoid levies Also a call to visit the Exposition in New Orleans and a note from Henry Lyle of Johnson City promoting Standard Mowers and Rakes and other goods from G W Crumley
Jas A Martin seeks green or dry poplar and walnut lumber in wagon or car land lots. ATLAXTA Ga July 1883. I was afflicted with a chronic running ulcer of my leg until Tee cured B B B. My brother suffered ten years with a running ulcer on his leg until B B B healed it. I live at Morris Mills north of this city A P McDowan
A pasted ad roundup from Reynolds Georgia and Bristol Tennessee features Mr L H Tayton ordering six dozen bottles of Eye Water, touts Electric Bitters with numerous testimonials including Mrs Gee Willing of Manchester Michigan, and promotes Shilohs Cure and related remedies sold by J B Jones with claims of relief for coughs, catarrh, chest pains, insomnia, and other ailments.
In pursuance of an order by J W Crumley J P Washington Co Tennessee an attachment suit against William Morgan and Alfred Lyte. Morgan is alleged to have fled and to be about to divest property. Writ issued April 6 1885 levied on listed personal property. You must appear May 25 1885 at Johnson City TN to defend or default. printer’s fee $5.00.
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