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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1898
Page
3
Saturday business trips and visits fill the town. church ice-cream event nets proceeds. Wheat crop outlook looks bright. Milligan College commencement begins next week with Baccalaureate service. Various residents visit family, attend conventions, or plan summer boarders. Public notices include appointments, political conventions, and local ads for medicines and services.
The Carnegie Tron Company has sold the Johnson City furnace to an English syndicate that owns the Embreville furnace and mines. George Abington Parker represented the buyers and closed with Wilberforce Sully in New York. The unit will be completed and go into blast soon to produce Bessemer pig iron from Cranberry ore.
The schedule lists events at Carson and Newman from Tuesday May 24 to Friday May 91. Includes annual reunion of four literary societies, Baccalaureate sermons by J Thore and Carter Helm Jones, declarations and recitations, literary address, debate contest, pay lecture, essays and orations, and class day exercises at the college.
Hart and Smith showcase exclusive styles in new fabrics including lawns charlies organdies ginghams and suisses at low city prices 50 cents per yard with patterns from 12 yards priced to attract buyers.
Our white goods stock includes organdies Swisses India linens piques dimities mull s and nainsooks all prices listed.
Lace curtains from 75e per pair and up with new drapery lines. Japanese drapery 100 per yard Silkoline 124 per yard and art denimsle options. Large assortments available in fresh stock for home decor.
A notice invites voters to the 9th Civil District courthouse on May 20 1898 at 1 pm to choose delegates to the County Convention in Jonesboro May 21 1898 and to nominate candidates for county offices and gubernatorial delegates in Nashville. Also includes assorted advertisements and medical product pitches.
From Norfolk Virginia a Southern Railway route sale notices tickets issued for May includes return option with deposit and extended dates. The notice urges attendees of the Southern Baptist Convention to use the railway service with specific terms and deadlines for travel to and from Norfolk.
The notice outlines a complex revised timetable for Southern Railway with multiple routes and connections. It mentions trains linking Knoxville, ChattaNooga, Bristol, Jacksonville, Memphis, and New York, including sleeping car services and specific transfer points. The fragmented OCR lists numerous intercity connections, station names, times, and car types, indicating a broad corridor service update.
An advertisement claims Ralston Health Club Breakfast Food builds frail bodies and renews vigor in the strong, containing natural elements of a child's diet. It says the product is nutriment for brain and brawn, improves mood through health, and is sold only at Lyle.
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