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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1891
Page
4
The fragment notes a weekly Comet edition in Rolinson City Tennessee dated Get 15 1801. It provides no further readable details about events, people, or notices.
Judge Walter Q. Gresham denounces campaign money bribery as a threat to free government. He calls out boodle givers and campaign managers from both parties, warns elections may become costly mockeries, and urges honest expression of public opinion to preserve tranquility and the republic.
The area around Johnson City is portrayed as a burgeoning rail hub and mining gateway. It highlights new railroad charters like Johnson City and Greensboro Railroad and Johnson City and Cumberland Gap Railroad, plus Southern and Western Air Line links. It praises timber, iron ore, limestone, and favorable climate at 1650 feet, with a 4160 population in the latest census, up from 685 in 1580.
A fragment listing Johnson City industrial concerns including tin and stove works furnaces brick yards planing mills and canning factories, followed by a bold claim about a magnetic ore vein and a Tennessee Virginia and Georgia railroad timetable with trains from Johnson City to nearby towns.
Reads like a town directory listing officials and church and fraternal groups in Johnson City. Includes city court officers, corporation officers, city officials, board of trade leaders, church parishes with pastors and service times, and Masonic and K of P chapters with meeting schedules. Contains numerous abbreviations and scattered names such as Jobe, Johnson, Brown, and Miller, with dates like Mondays and Thursdays and locations like Market Street.
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