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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1898
Page
3
The column shares varied items including bicycle repair services, fabrics, and grocery promotions. It notes people visiting from Bristol and Knoxville, a dummy production line at Uptegrove & Bro, and upcoming performances at the Opera House. Mentions Hold Dust flour Beef and Mrs Bruner visiting Knoxville during the Carnival and a cow missing since September 1899.
A clipped ad touts best ever values on ladies ribbed cotton vests and union suits, including extra heavy fleeced lined varieties in white and gray, plus infant ribbed vesta and misses ribbed union suits at low prices.
The ad markets a budget shoe and textile sale with men and women footwear basics at $1.25 to $1.50 per pair, including Ladies and Mens styles and a selection of table cloth and oil cloth by yard. It emphasizes high volume and lower prices as a selling point.
Mr Horace G Brami of Bristol made Ta Comme a call while in the city Tuesday Rev B O Buck spent Sunday in the city with his brother J M Buck R J Poring and wife returned from Adirondacks last Saturday They up his work in the yellow fever district I have been staying at this famous resort he represents Peaseley Guilbert Co of Louisville Ky and his creator gial to say he returns very much improved.
An unknown assailant stabbed Pat Bion of Bristol in a brief altercation last evening, with Dr. Gong sewing the wound before Pat returned home via Ross Smith's train. G Linginfelter moves his family from Telford to the Fraker residence near Watauga Ave and Elm St, and the Johnson City community offers a warm welcome.
Baxter Taylor will speak on political issues at the Opera House next Monday night. The Halloween fundraiser for the Public Library at Mrs. C. W. Battie’s on Watauga Avenue promises ghost costumes and refreshments. Embreeville Furnace advances toward a Johnson City plant with ore shipments planned. Dr. W. J. Miller visited Mayetteville. the Watauga Tannery adds a wind elevator. Orphanage efforts near $1,000 raised with $100,158 in gifts. Rev. D L Lander leaves Watauga Avenue church for Malta Bend Missouri.
An old time advertising claim asserts serofula or rorofula is a blood disease. It states Hood's Sarsaparilla purifies blood, cures sores boils pimples and skin diseases, and has won praise from many. Readers are urged to take it at once to prevent blood contamination.
The Euclid O' Company of Cleveland Ohio seeks a reliable salesman to sell lubricating oils and greases. The ad promises no great schooling needed but offers a chance for the right man to make the object sellable. Apply at once.
Fresh oysters available on Tuesday and Saturday each week at Geo. R. Browns Restaurant. Readers are invited to enjoy the catch at the establishment noted in local listings.
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