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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1900
Page
4
A garbled excerpt from the Milwaukee Journal mentions The Companion magazine and a gift calendar for 1901, urging charitable, moral, and domestic ideals. It discusses the appeal of Christmas subscriptions, a scene of self restraint for a wife's comfort, and a warning against smoking.
If you contemplate purchasing tickets to any point West Northwest or Southwest, remember the Southern Railway to the shortest and most direct line to those regions.
A London report relayed by the Louis Globo-Democrat describes an alligator in India that killed a native messenger boy sent with a reply. The child’s head, still covered by a turban, revealed the letter he carried. A searching party found the alligator with the boy swallowed, then released.
Baron de Pock, a Swedish nobleman, joined the Destroyer expedition to Martinique aboard the Brazilian gunboat. He nearly was eaten by sharks after lobbing a mine and a bottle fuse into the sea, which blew up a large shark and left a fragment surfacing.
The Hoxton Herald reports on Armenian schooling with two school types private and public. Children bring a curfewed square rug, read from varied books, swap texts, and end four years still learning to read. Teaching quality blamed on a defective system not intelligence, with genders separated in public schools and religious focus shaping Sundays.
The Literary Direst explains that clearness and colorlessness are not the best measures of water purity. Ground water that is clear may harbor organisms if stored in open reservoirs, while deeply colored water or water with iron or sulphates can cause more issues in boilers, pipes, and washing.
A Chicago driver notes gripcar work favors the right side, with stronger shoulders and muscles on that side. He says no left-handed grip cars exist. Also mentions Japan’s public baths and western regret over lack of similar facilities. Chamberlain’s Coke Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy advertised as a safe, reliable bowel remedy.
A brief ad note touts a product named Gold Cold Cured for 5 cents described as a laxative cold cure. The readable line emphasizes affordability and relief, typical of late 19th or early 20th century patent medicines. The text references a single product with no additional details on ingredients or company.
A writer recalls failing to meet an Irish MP due to bureaucratic delays at the British House of Commons gate. He Bribed a guard unsuccessfully and used a telegraph to deliver his card, finally reaching the representative through a telegraph boy, exposing the tedious red tape. The report also notes 1,060 coal mining deaths in Britain last year and 65 in multimineral mines, with mined output totaling 70,007,048 tons.
A reader notes Chamberlain's Cough Remedy acts as a friend in need for mothers awakened by a husky nighttime cough. The product soothes throat irritation and eases coughing, marketed by City Drug Store as a safe, youth friendly remedy for colds with coughing symptoms.
Reads as a scrambled OCR fragment listing places such as Pardoo Point Cranberry and BIS Park, with scattered numbers and labels like White tek Sip CravOre Tie and Mlevin. Lacks coherent events or context to form a full news item.
A detailed schedule lists arrival times and routes for Southern Railway trains. It references cities including Morrietown, Knoxville, Chattanooga, New York, Atlanta, Jacksonville, and Washington with mention of Pullman sleeping cars, dining options, and connections through junctions like Harriman and Knoxville to various northern destinations.
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