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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1892
Page
4
Local merchants announce a vigorous at cost sale on men’s heavy boots plowing shoes and fine shoes. They emphasize new stock, price reductions, and money back guarantees to draw customers. Community notices list visits by several regional figures and residents traveling between Bristol Knoxville Gate City and Greeneville.
Train and streetcar notices describe departures from Yalow Depot at 12:00 and 7:01 a.m. from 0:40 Friday with round trips to entertainments at the Opera House. Conductors will manage open cars, smoking prohibited, and alighting etiquette at boarding points.
The notice promotes Dr. Pierce products as the cheapest guaranteed medicines, with money-back benefits if no benefit or cure occurs. It warns buyers to shop only through regularly authorized druggists at established prices for Golden Medical Discovery Favorite and Pleasant Pellets, and warns against fraudulent imitations at lower prices.
Crowley displays a heavy metal boiler teapot with ornate finish designed to retain full flavor of coffee. He tours homes promoting the item along with handkerchief extracts from 4 McFarland & Co and Atkinson's imported goods. Eastman’s extracts are also highlighted.
An old promote notice claims the Saturday Crade is the greatest newspaper, boasting a weekly circulation over a quarter of a million. It invites subscriptions at 2 per year and free specimens, urging boys to sell the Blade on streets. Publisher W D Boyce lists 113 115 117 Fifth Ave Chicago.
On Saturday night the Mabel Page Company will perform Little Lord Fauntleroy at Jobe's Opera House with young star Little Mabel. Frances Hodgson Burnett wrote the play, praised by the New York World Journal. Advance agent J. W. Guildtough returns, promising a full house and strong local support in East Tennessee.
The Kentucky Home Co offers a new three story brick hotel of 50 rooms at public outcry in Johnson City Tennessee on the stated December date. Terms allow one third cash and the remainder in four yearly installments with a three year rent option. sale or rent bid chosen to suit the company’s best interests.
J W Yates of Tullahoma Tennessee writes that Botanic Blood Balm cured an abscess on the lungs and asthma after other remedies failed. He reports his son’s skin eruptions and severe debility cleared, his strength and hair improving, and says he has taken about ten bottles with ongoing good health.
The Big Four Route runs five daily Cincinnati to Indianapolis trains and two daily services to St Louis and Peoria with vestibuled royalty cars including palace sleepers private compartments buffet cars reclining chair cars and elegant parlor dining cars. Connections at Union Station link with Queen Crescent and Louisville Nashville lines avoiding city transfers near the World’s Fair landmarks. Tickets are low and on sale at coupon offices nationwide with D B Martin as General Passenger Agent.
By virtue of a mortgage dated November Dry, 1880 and secured by note against F. M. Christman, J. F. Gilliam and Jesse Benn, the trustees will sell at the courthouse door in Jonesborough on November 26, 1882 between 10:00 AM and 12:00 PM the lot 81 and 82 of the Watauga Land Company's Addition to Johnson City Tennessee, bounded on Unaka Avenue and Elm Street, to satisfy debt, interest, and costs.
Notice details a trustee sale of property free from redemption with debt, interest, and taxes to be disclosed at sale. The Southern Building and Loan Association authorizes AR Joneses as attorney and agent, dated October 1 1898.
The Southern Building and Loan Association under power of sale in a mortgage will sell, at the courthouse door in Johnson City, Washington County, Tennessee, the land in Justin County City, described as 157 feet along East Lemuelto Land Company Addition. The sale, to occur between 9 and 11 am, follows a default on payments and is authorized by terms of the deed of May 1880. The exact debt amount will be disclosed at sale. Dated October 12, 1893.
The piece portrays Nicholas II era monarchs, noting Alexander II’s domestic warmth at Fredensborg and his absolute sovereignty. It characterizes the czar as reticent and moral, with a clean Russian court, while hinting at unpredictable future actions. Also includes quirky definitions and a historical anecdote about early anarchists and colonial Tryon.
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