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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1912
Page
4
A collage of old ads tout Chamberlains Tablets for headaches and stomach issues, Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for croup, and Stomach and Liver Tablets for children. Also notes fruit exports, glass repair services, rental space, and generic booster lines about health and progress.
A satirical poem depicts trusts influencing daily life from coffee to transportation and home furnishings, showing how control by landholding corporations shapes consumption and society. The piece references labor, freedom, and a looming grand vision of trust power.
Washington County election officials announce a special election in Johnson City to decide on a $50,000 city bond issue to fund a new high school. The measure proposes bonds payable over 20 years, with ballots printed for Yes Bonds or No Bonds. Polls open in the First and Second Wards, with appointed election officers and judges listed.
Washington reports four Tennessee congressmen filed pre election expense statements with Clerk Tumble. It covers amounts spent in pre nomination contests and requires filing ten days before the election. Austin lists 134 dollars. Sells 722 dollars. Judge Moon reports zero. McKellar also reports none.
Henry M. Slagle and others appear in the County Court of Washington County Tennessee in a bill by G. C. Sanders administrator. The defendants include John Slagle deceased's sons and daughters and five unknown husbands all non residents. They are to appear by the second Monday in November 1913 or the bill may be confessed. Publication is ordered for four weeks in The Comet Johnstown.
A man chasing a buried treasure tale travels from New York to Salt Lake City to confront the storyteller, after learning the cache did not exist. If he hires someone to handle his own case, the incident may reach a fitting end.
The document orders publication in the Olson City newspaper for four weeks to compel Goo W. Martin to appear before Justice P Q Miller in Johnson City Tennessee on November 1 1912 to answer a suit. The defendant is nonresident and cannot be served by ordinary process, and failure will lead to ex parte proceedings.
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