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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1895
Page
3
Community notes pay tribute to Mary Lide with prayers, sympathy for the family, and a request to publish the memorial in city papers. The passage recalls faith and the hope of understanding God’s plan, while also detailing local concerns and a sewing of grief with daily civic notices.
Local notes report Dr. Hunter visiting from Elizabethton, Bristol relatives visiting, and Mrs. Thomas’s family travel. A mix of courier-trade ads, railway schedule changes, school events, and promotions for Gold Dust flour and Jackson’s markets fill the page, with entries on train arrivals, a new hotel manager, and upcoming school exercises at the opera house.
Congressman Anderson announces a competitive examination for a cadetship at West Point on June 4 1895 in Greeneville for ages 17 to 22, unmarried and at least five feet tall. Regular admission tests begin June 14 at West Point New York. Contact Newport for details. Also recruiting a man to collect and manage agents with office work, no canvassing, payment terms including a $25 deposit and bond, via Inter State Publishing Co P O Box 484 St Louis Mo.
A new train is to be put on the Southern schedule with Morristown as the starting point and route via Asheville to Salisbury. Morristown Republican notes improvements in health with Ayer s Sarsaparilla for feeble and delicate constitutions.
The notice advertises cash prices for letterhead and note stock, offering 1000 units at $1.50 to $2.00 and other rates for various sizes. It touts smooth AI writing surface paper, claims lower costs than larger towns, and urges large local orders to beat city prices.
Hulls Hair Renewer enjoys patronage across the United States for restoring and preserving hair color. Lucklons Arnica Salve is advertised as a universal remedy for cuts, bruises, sores, ulcer, frost bites, and skin ailments, with a guarantee of satisfaction or money back. price 26 cents per box, sold by McPatland & Co.
A tired traveler aboard a Southern Railway coach encounters a seedy man claiming to be a commercial rent taker for Tennessee. He recounts Johnson City as the town of Three B's Boom, Business, Bust, and describes speculative booms, bank failures, and shifting fortunes in East Tennessee towns including Johnson City, Jonesboro, and Knoxville, with notes on doctors, lawyers, gas, and medicine as symbols of growth and decline.
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