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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1891
Page
2
A crowded miscellany of pithy maxims, quotes, and wry observations from the Johnson City weekly Comet. It blends social humor, cautions on virtue, and satirical takes on politics, religion, and personal conduct with assorted notes on literature and current affairs.
A travelogue style vignette notes a tour on the Houston and Shreveport railroad through Texas with mock-ethnographic humor about Cherokees, cowboys, and a memory of Griswold the Fat Contributor. The piece blends railroad critique, frontier stereotypes, and a tale of a tough town resisting touring acts, ending with Griswold facing mobbed crowds and his wife defending him.
In a Detroit Free Press item a conversation notes Uncle Mose has twins and the mother asks if they are named. He answers yes naming them after Christopher Columbus and Julius Caesar, reflecting a household habit of naming children after presidents or notable figures.
The Johnson City Corner column notes a dramatic rise in daily circulation from 70 to 720 readers in one month. The Morristown Record describes the publication’s bright future as it expands into new areas, guiding readers out of darkness.
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