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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1896
Page
3
The town pages highlight promotions from M Jackson and 8 B White stores with cheap stoves and lamps, and a string of visitors and arrivals. It notes Rev W R Long visiting Athens, Mrs Gee Swingle in town, and a baby boy for the Strain family, along with social events and real estate chatter.
The piece notes T. J. Cox offers rooms in a central hotel at 1 to 1.25 per day. It records a Friday meeting of Eighth district Democrats at Greenwood schoolhouse forming a Bryan and Sewall free silver club with 38 members and officers. It details a home wedding of Vandalia Fuqua and S. H. Cooper at Fuqua residence with Rev. Dr. Herndon officiating and guests, and lists Cooper as circuit court clerk and First National Bank cashier. It mentions campaign talks by W. W. DeVault and J. T. Browning in Berea and upcoming events at Chalybeate Springs and Cherry Grove, plus voter registration dates for November 1896 and polling locations.
The eldest son of Mrs. J. R. Englebert died Wednesday morning at nearly eight years old. He was described as a promising boy. The Englebert family receives sympathy from the Lykens community and former Tennessee friends.
The First M B Church welcomes back Dr Caldwell after a conference in Newport. Attendees from here included Rey Caldwell Dr E A Long C H Jennings Miss Bell Mary Miller and Gertie Weiler. Capt W A Darden had his left arm amputated yesterday due to infection and poor prognosis. Doctors Broyles B S Miller and others performed the operation in the morning. the patient remains in a critical condition.
Personal notice to physicians in the United States from Dr. Hathaway & Co. in Atlanta Georgia. It promotes Sutherland's Bayle Eye Salve with a new tube and claims cures for sore eyes. Sold by McFrand & Co. druggist.
Knoxville hosts a three day street fair and trade carnival on the 21st to 23rd with a grand trades display and civic flag dedication, a bicycle pageant, live stock parade, carnival parade, river boat races, and an empire hall finale. Seven special buildings will display agriculture art horticulture and more with no admission fee. East Tennessee exhibitors compete for prizes including a £50 poetry prize for Knoxville’s flag poem due by the 17th. Rail and Pullman services advertise special rates to welcome visitors.
A damaged OCR fragment shows railroad timetable entries for the Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad effective July 1, 18M at 8 o'clock. It lists stations such as Johnson City, Wallen, Roan Mountain, Cranberry and Hotel, with arrival and departure times around early morning hours and connections to various lines. The text is garbled but indicates station names and numeric times in a schedule format.
Judgment creditors O. W. A Dickinson and others offer for sale at the Johnson City courthouse a house and lot Nos 25 and 26 in block 6 of the Bart Carnegie addition, Ninth district Washington County Tennessee. Proceeds cover debts of 14075 and 7545 plus costs to M J Gump J P and Mechanics National Bank. Sale date September 23 1896. Parcels at public auction for cash to the highest bidder.
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