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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1902
Page
3
Local notices announce election registration and a mass Democratic convention in Jolson City. The page covers social updates from Johnson City and Knoxville weddings, farm listings in Greene and Afton, local business ads for heating and lighting, two new locomotives, and various court and crime briefs including forged checks, a fatal blow, and a congressional race result in Bristol Virginia.
Rev Rufus Hickey, 82, died at his Morristown home after months of pneumonia. Funeral set for Friday at 2 00 PM in the M E Church South. Born Aug 20 1800 in New Market, he preached since 1840s and spent forty years as a circuit rider. He served as presiding elder across multiple districts and was well known throughout the Holston Methodist Church. His death ends a long ministry marked by dedication and leadership.
The Courier Journal quotes a party roadmap urging steady leadership between socialism and expediency. It calls for aligning tradition with progress, expanding freedom through evolution, and restraining money power to preserve public credit. In Erwin Tennessee Ex Sheriff Win McInturff dies at 60 after paralysis, mourned as a prominent county figure.
Nashville reports Chairman Thompson estimates James B. Frazier will win by about 50,000 votes with a possible rise to 92,000. In the Eighth District Congress race T W Lima appears re elected over F N Davis. The anti saloon league boosts its influence in the legislature, with the lower house likely to be Democratic and several senators sympathetic.
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