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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1890
Page
1
A grand banquet marked the seventy seventh birthday of the famed Old Roman. Dignitaries and guests attended a lavish feast hosting about six thousand over the course of the event, with toasts and recognitions for the celebrant’s long career and public service.
A large crowd welcomed former President Grover Cleveland and Judge Allen G. Thurman at Columbus Ohio as the Thurman Club marked the seventy seventh anniversary of Thurman’s birth. The banquet featured Cleveland and Thurman’s joint appearance, with Thurman defending free institutions and urging American citizenship.
A 19th century advertisement extols Dr John W Purnell of Hart Burrow Building Johnson City Tenn offering improved pain free methods for tooth extraction. It promotes dental services with fixed price claims and mentions a hydropathical mouth wash and various medical potions from Clarke's flax remedies.
A lengthy interview recounts Lexi tor Blackburn recalling Secretal Blaine's 1890s condemnation of the McKinley tariff bill as an infamy. It notes Blaine’s sharp rebukes to colleagues, Blackburn’s view of leadership in the Republican Party, and hints at political realignments shaping the 1892 nomination prospects.
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