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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1892
Page
3
A scattered mix of local notices and advertisements recounts crop prospects with hope for an abundant yield, health remedies from Hale’s Household products, a berry crop report from Gadsden, a broomcorn competition in Sequatchie Valley, and a birth in Wisconsin. Prominent claims tout Hale’s remedies, with cautions about mercury in remedies and recommendations for Holt’s Catarrh Cure from Toledo makers.
An advertisement extols Dr. Pierce's Favose Prescription as a trusted cure for female weakness with money-back assurance if it fails. It promotes Dr. Pierce's Pellets as small regulators, priced at 20 cents per vial, and urges women to seek relief through its remedies while noting implied testimonials and warnings against unhelpful cures.
A man named Fred LeCroy eloped from New Madrid Missouri with Mary Downs wife of a locomotive fireman and their four children. They traveled to New Orleans then Knoxville where LeCroy was arrested and will be sent back to Missouri. The mother and children remain destitute. LeCroy feared lynching. He is a house painter by trade and had shipped furniture to Lexington Kentucky before fleeing. The Missouri husband plans to prosecute vigorously.
The execution date for Deeming is set for May 1 25. He admits to killing his wife at Windsor and claims a troubled youth with asylum confinements. He says his brothers’ troubles contradict his story, while his own family history lies in question.
In Frankfort Kentucky May 9 a motion to nominate Senator John Griffin Gartisle of Kentucky for President was approved by about three hundred state leaders. The convention backed his candidacy citing his long public career and tariff reform stance with Jim McKenzie possibly to nominate. George Winstead to resign as governor and move to Russia follows.
Friends of Ex President Cleveland will control the Democratic State Convention to be held today in New Haves. At last night’s caucuses the Cleveland faction won Hartford and Fairfield county contests, while Hill supporters faced defeats in several rounds. Turkey quate appeared in large numbers at Bolivar.
Operators of machinery now have in stock all sizes of gum belting, stamped New York, with no custom delay. Also notes of buffalo gnats in Mississippi border counties causing horse and mule losses. Agents wanted for Deep River Nurseries in Jonestown, NC. J HL Dameron of Milligan TN and White & Dameron proprietors.
Non residents David B Farnsworth wife Cillie KR Farnsworth and heirs face four week publication in Johnson City paper per law. They must appear before Chancery Court at Court House Johnson City on first Monday of June 1892 to defend a bill. otherwise the bill will be confessed and the cause set for hearing. April 26 1892. W. PF Youse, Clerk and Master. By PU. Povorn dD, D, & M.
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