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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1900
Page
3
Community notices and brief items from Bristol and Johnson City including visits, marriages, business updates, religious services, obituaries, and upcoming events. Names include Miss Ruth Aby, Miss Gussie Gayer, Mrs E G Lyle, J A Wilson, Fannie Kilby, Ida Turner, Taylor, J S Shewalter, Col Harvey H Hannah, Frances Penland, George T Lee, John J Ford, and local venues such as Corner Grocery Store and First Baptist Church.
Includes ad notes for Groves Tastelows Chill Tonic warning no cure no pay, staffing changes at Rafis McClain Fields with Ketlogg Syndicate, furniture store Hart building lease and new undertaker service, managers Henderaun and Jones. Also a Washington County Democratic Executive meeting notice for Oct 31, 100 in Jonesboro, plus Watauga items including McMillan firm business trip, Reese visit, and candidate speeches at Watauga Academy.
A local grocery dealer advertises a large fresh goods stock with attractive display and low prices. The notice touts a wide assortment and a specialty in good goods at moderate prices, inviting customers to patronize the store.
A mixed newspaper fragment describes The People's Cash Grocery Store offering first class goods at fair prices with free city delivery. It also notes a tobacco pamphlet promotion, a cold cure claim, local election coverage, a telephone bulletin system plan, and political commentary on East Tennessee races and Brownlow.
Johnson City pursues a timber based venture after recent North Carolina land purchases by L McCatlun and O Burnett of Ann Arbor. They plan saw mills to produce dimension stock and furniture stock, with a near site for a factory to employ 80 to 100 workers. Citizens vow a handsome land bonus to lure the operation to the city, anticipating a strong weekly payroll and economic impact.
J S Duxrox as vice president calls a statewide convention in Nashville on Friday November 2 2000. Representatives of all clubs are invited to assemble to form a state association and coordinate campaign efforts with notable speakers including Ben Tillman Carmack Turley McMillin Head and Heiskell. Railroads offer round trip fare and hotels provide rates. parades and speeches follow the morning session. Clubs should send delegates, bring banners uniforms and brass bands where possible.
A formal notice declares no election will be held in Washington County Tennessee on the specified Tuesday for selecting U.S. electors governor railroad commissioners a U.S. representative state senator representative to the General Assembly and a pictorial representative with listing of section officers judges and clerks across many districts and precincts detailing the appointments and duties of election officials under law.
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