Polar quest farce and Cook interrogation in Tennessee
In a long column of local chatter and clippings the paper relays how Johnson City hosts the Jolston Conference of the Southern Methodist Church with Bishop Hoss attending and 400 delegates, plus editorials roasting Governor Patterson. A satire on Dr Cook’s inquisitorial testimony follows, detailing a mock cross examination full of gibes, odd answers, and farcical quotes about the pole chase and a late escape from police.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnson City
Eigty
Southern Methodist Church
Hoss
Jus. A. Burrow
David Sullins
Heaven
St. Peter
Holston
Queen City
Mountains
Dr. Cook
John R. Bradley
North Pole
Peary
Pole
Taft
The System At Fault In Pardons Critique
The Chattanooga Times weighs Cy Lyle's eye incident and denounces pardon abuses as a systemic problem. It argues Cy did nothing unique and urges eliminating opportunities for future governors to abuse pardons rather than blaming individuals or any single leader.
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Chattanooga Times
Cy Lyle
Memphis News Seimster
Ital
Chattanoogs
Luther Guthrie
Pec C
Cardus
Comical Notes on Social Goings On and a Comet Threat
A cluttered note from Commercial Appeal discusses Lyle acting ladylike toward the Knoxville editor and Peary’s gullibility as a Cook book sales angle. It mocks Mrs Peary for banning the Kentucky Cook Book from the kitchen and jokes about sending Cy Lyle’s Comet to strike Doc Halley’s comet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. Peary
Doc Halley
Cy Lyles
Monday Night Fires In West Market Street Cottage
A fragmented report describes a fire at a cottage on West Market Street. The readable text mentions a fire incident occurring Monday night with unclear details about the location and cause. Further specifics are obscured in the damaged OCR.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Market Street
Hasebee
Andrew Johnsons Old Shears and a Civil War Ball
D V Cash submitted to The Comet a pair of shears once used by Andrew Johnson when he trained as a tailor for Alexander Febury the father of Mrs Cash. The worn steel blades carry thirty eight years of use. Also brought was an old Minnie ball found near a locust post marking a Jonesboro road skirmish site. Cash believes the ball may be linked to a rebel casualty.
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D. V. Cash
Comet
Andrew Johnson
Alexander Febuary
Cash
Ash
Jonesboro
DeVaults Ford
Water rents due for quarter ending December 8 1909
Water charges for the quarter ending December 8 1909 are due at the Watauga Water Co office on Spring street. If not paid by October 15, service will be discontinued without further notice. notice given October 1 1909. The quote about the perfect husband appears from the Chicago News.
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Watauga Water Co
Spring Street
Tennessee
Johnson City
Soldiers Home News Tri monthly reports show September 20 values
National Military Home records list September 20 membership by home with totals and absentees for Johnson City Dayton Pacific Leavenworth Hampton Danville Yogas Milwaukee Marion and others. Notices celebrate Chief Nurse Agnes Fenton return and praise staff like Thomas Myers and Peter Rono while detailing guest reports and veterans’ updates including a Spanish War Veterans Commanders and local hospital bed counts.
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Johnson City
Dayton
AL Pay Pacific
Tote
T. A
Leavenworth
Hampton
Danville
Milwaukee
Agnea Fenton
Miss Fenton
Thomas Myers
Mess Hall
National Military
The
Leavenworth Times Aays
Joseph Langston
Bennington
Kan
Joe
Ro Iinols
St. Milno
Jall
Peter
Leslie Logie
Company 1K
Council of Administration
C. Dove
Mountain Branch
Enworth
Tous
Marion
Benjamin W. Clark
Montreal
Canada
New York City
Montrose
Lee Hotel
Clark
Warda
Simon P. Johnson
Chas. T. Mandel
OR. R
Monmouth
Why Bad Man Loved The South In The Smoking Room
The tale recounts Thomas Nelson Page in a hotel smoking room recalling old West bad men now extinct. A seasoned traveler, a notorious rider bursts in, asks where the stranger is from and proclaims knowing Richmond. He boasts of jail and rough barroom lore, while the scene shifts between bars and bravado.
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Patterson
Nashville
Tennessee
Rockwoot Times
Thomas Nelson Page
Amerika
West
Mr. Page
Richmond
Warie
Washington Star
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Pontomoe
Eee City
Boon Clan Matver
Vermoon
Barnum & Bailey
Uy Lyle
Take Lea
Isenberg
Pardon Board
Paredon Trust
Rockwood Times
Cook
Ark
Aukwer
Maine
Mretie
Coney Tk Ian
New York Herald
Ahweluh
Waldorf-Astoria
Denmark
Tam
Police
Y Lyle
Knoxville Sentinel
Wood
T. W. Wood & Sons
Richmond, Va
OLD Shears
Chicago News
China
S.B
Soldiers Home News
Miss Hurley
Agnes Fenton
Tommy
Burns
Tacoma
Wash
Howard J. Gihan
Wakefield
Mass
Chas. W. Newton
Hartford
Conn
Ida M. Galloway
Washington, D.C
National Auxiliary
Napoleon White
Boston
Charley
New England
Elks
Teigen
Cheae
Rmanyo
J. Cheney
Toledo
Dave Eichengreen
Fountain Square
New York Press
J. E. Crouch
Waterman's Ideal
Tunnell
Winchester
Southern Nursery CO
Tenn
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