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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1884
Page
3
A choppy miscellany of town notices and ads from Johnson City area papers. Mentions Hunt and Lido stores, various groceries, hardware, clothing bargains, and local vendors. Reports on residents, travels, a county election speech and a timber mill fire with modest losses.
King and Pettibone toured Rogersville and addressed about three hundred voters. Pettibone arrived with a brass band and Dick Russell, while King was welcomed by twelve girls in regalia. The discussion centered on the First district race and party fatigue among Republicans.
Excited crowds praise a tonic claimed to cure severe coughs colds bronchitis and influenza symptoms. A trial bottle is advertised at a local drug store with a promised remedy for throat and lung issues and hay fever.
German Corp for Sale at Johnson City Tenn promotes Hooded Wit patent medicines. An advertisement claims Electric Bitters cure liver inactivity and general debility, praising the product as a blessing to mankind and offered for fifty cents a bottle.
The case against Moiley Adar and others concerns John Gibson and heirs of David Gibson with unknown residences. Since service cannot be effected, publication in The Costin of Johnon City, Tenn requires four consecutive weeks. Defendants must appear before the County Court of Washington County at Jonesboro on the next November Monday to answer the bill or default.
Auction offer for a large Carter County property along the Watanee River front with railroad access, near Johnson City and Elizabethton. 800 acres cultivated, 200 in timber, diverse crops, orchard, cottages, barns, and outbuildings. Land subdivisible for a small colony, riverfront parcel with rail line access. Clean title, finance available through the Creditors committee.
Farmers seeking soil improvement urged to use Pure Raw Bone Meal available at your reliable home ville, Address A.D. Revwonne, Treas. Bristol, Teun. The notice emphasizes bone meal as the recommended soil amendment and directs readers to the local contact for purchase.
A patient reports persistent leg serofulous disease resisted many cures until B. L. B. remedy healed the ulcer and restored strength. The reporter notes a brother suffered a long running leg ailment similarly improved by the remedy. Location cited Morrie Mills near Morrie City, A. MeDoxAnn.
Fragmentary letter from Bristol Tennessee asks for six dozen bottles of Exe Water and offers to sell within a 15 to 20 mile radius. Signoff appears as Rowpt and HE Taynon.
Fragmentary note lists items including green apples and potatoes with unclear context and stray phrases. Potential inventory or market reference appears, but readable specifics are minimal.
The page outlines a June 1864 time table for East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad with connections to Georgia Alabama divisions and Oglethorpe lines. It lists Knoxville Knoxville and Augusta routes, and references multiple divisions and feeder lines.
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