The Comet, Oy H. Lyle
Johnson City Tenn newspaper The Comet notes its mailing status with second class designation and post office listing for the period.
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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1917
Page
2
Johnson City Tenn newspaper The Comet notes its mailing status with second class designation and post office listing for the period.
Nashville paper lauds Tennessee's congressional delegation, highlighting Senators Shields McKetlar and Burns and Representatives Hull Byrns Garett Padgett Moon Houston Fisher Austin Sells for their leadership and effectiveness. The piece extols Hull’s tax expertise, Byrns’ war expenditures role, Garrett’s oratory, and notes the overall high standing of Tennessee’s lawmakers in Congress.
Practice in all state and federal courts in Johnson City and Elizabethton led by AUY S Johnson with a focused collection department for corporations. Office: Miller & Seller, Unaka National Bank area. Dr King’s New Discovery advertised as a cough and cold remedy, 60 cents at druggists. Southern Railway advert places routes Knoxville Louisville St Louis.
Johnson City resident W Sharite, a retired hotel proprietor, recounts long standing kidney and back problems. After using two boxes of Dean's Kidney Pills from Gregory Drug Co, he reports noticeable improvement and urges others with similar symptoms to try the remedy.
An advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a cure and attributes a long testimonial history to F J Cheney Co of Toledo. The second item is a chancery court notice requiring Thomas Henderson, a non resident, to appear in Johnson City by September to answer a bill filed by Nancy Henderson, with publication ordered for four weeks in The Comet.
Non-resident defendant Frank Willis is summoned in a Tennessee law court in Johnson City to appear to answer complainant Alice Willis. Publication runs four weeks in The Comet, with appearance required on the third Monday of October 1917. This 15th day of Sept. 1917.
A historical ad promotes Dr Bell's Pine Tar Honey as relief for a nagging cough throat irritation and bronchial troubles. The pitch claims antiseptic germ killing properties and easier breathing with a ready remedy for croup sore throat and related afflictions available at druggists.
An old advertisement urges not to neglect colds warning they worsen. It promotes Dr. Reli Pine Tar Honey and Dr. Della Pine Tar Honey as soothing remedies with honey glycerine antiseptics and breathing relief. It notes availability at a drugstore on 2650.
Cramped muscles and soreness from grippe relieved by Shay's ointment that does not stain the skin. Sloan's Liniment promises quick relief from rheumatism neuralgia lumbago strains sprains and bruises. Also promotes King’s New Life Pills a gentle laxative for constipation sold for 25 cents.
A vintage advertisement promotes Dr King’s New Life Pill laxative to prevent winter constipation. It claims he says lack of exercise causes heaviness dullness and pimples, and promises a clean, easy morning movement with a 26 cent dose sold by any druggist.
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