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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1889
Page
3
In Johnson City, merchants tout a broad selection of comforts and woolens for women and men, including dresses, jackets, hosiery, and heavy undergarments. Local notices urge tax payments, railroad progress, and market activity while reporting on new buildings, street work, and community events amid a bustling commercial scene.
The notice warns against trading joint Gilliam Stratton property and mentions a contested will. It lists a cloth buggy robe found and to claim it. Various notices cover bank hours, a brick warehouse project, stockholders meeting, and local advertisements for goods and photographs.
A grocer offers 2500 bushels of new corn and promises high market price in goods at low cash prices. They advertise Virginia salt in 150 pound bags at $1 per sack and claim to buy most rural farmer’s goods, inviting a trial with a promise customers will return.
A collection of advertisements from Campbell and Pouder, A. P. Henderson & Co., Seaver & Summers, Geo. R. Brown, and others promote new fall stock of decorative paints, cooking and heating stoves, fruit, oysters, groceries, candy, and roofing services. They promise low prices, best quality, and fresh goods.
An advertisement offers Old Virginia by Thomas Melson and Fron Toe by Joel Chandler Harris at regular prices. It promotes cheap stereoscopic views, inks, rubber stamps, bill and letter files, pocket books, card-cases, and a large selection of family and Oxford Bibles.
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