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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1906
Page
1
Sam Jones speaks of possible death and a homeward wish to die peacefully surrounded by family. He envisions a final week of care, farewells, and prayers, then a kiss to his wife and children as he goes to God. Also mentions Preventics cold remedy sold in scent and 2 cent boxes.
Excerpted reflections discuss human life as a tireless, vanishing effort with pain, vanity, and ultimate oblivion, drawn from Autobiography in the North American Review, followed by an unrelated medical advert claiming Dr Shoop's Ointment relieves piles and a note on social tact.
In St Albans West Virginia a school superintendent 8 C Blair reports his daughter cured of a dread fullness by Electric Bitters after other treatments failed. He credits the remedy with curing St Vitas Dance symptoms and improving nervous complaints debility and malaria. Sold by H C Millers drug store. Price Ste.
Patterson delivers a fiery Saturday speech at Lewisburg urging Tennessee Democrats to back his bid for governor. He attacks muckrakers and Republicans, asserts moral fortitude, warns of race-based attacks, and vows victory for Evans as governor, framing the race as a defense of white supremacy and party loyalty.
The Tennessee Supreme Court addresses whether inmates of the Mountain Branch Soldiers' Home near Johnson City may be legal voters. It finds federal purchase and control of the Home place exclusive congressional authority, with state rights limited, and discusses the eligibility of Home residents to vote under the state law and federal act, noting confirming precedents and the need for proper mandamus remedies.
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