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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1892
Page
4
A local advertiser promotes selling first class goods below town prices and offers cash coupons. For each dollar spent, customers receive a five cent coupon, and after twenty coupons they can redeem for one dollar in cash or one dollar in goods. customers are urged to buy boots shoes calicoes ginghams dress goods hats and caps to save 25 percent plus coupons.
A local buy for cash seller advertises cash payments with no rent, promising customers $100 monthly profit savings. They seek wool and dried goods including peaches berries feathers bees wax ginseng, offering highest market rates and mutual benefit.
Royal Baking Powder is shown by actual chemical tests absolutely pure and 27 percent, greater in strength than any other brand. Many grocery stores have recently been stocked with second-class brands of baking powder urged upon consumers at the price of the high-cost first-class Royal. These powders cost from 8 to go cents a pound less than the Royal, besides being of 27 per cent less strength. If they are forced upon you, see that you are charged a correspondingly lower price for them.
Madam Warren presents a new dress form line at J. E. Hurst and Co with improved fit and adjustable sizing. Local shoppers see updated mannequins and demonstrations as summer fashion grows.
Passengers may ride every 20 minutes from 7 01 a m to 0 40 a m The last car to Union Depot departs at 12 00 and returns The Opera House entertainments stop at closing Cars on closed routes do not stop on curves Smoking banned on closed cars Smoking allowed on three rear seats of open cars Conductors may place five on a wake In an open car and eleven on a side in a closed car Stand near the tack to board and signal the driver Alight by signaling the conductor No passengers on the front platform of stowed cars Dogs and large packages may ride only on the front platform of closed cars and rear of open cars
A crowded jumble of social notes from Morristown lists in town visitors and residents. Names include Hon A A Taylor H E Graves Hoss Young Gillespie Hopwood Smith Hart Jennings Warren Hacker Mann Kirkpatrick Crigger Brown Crain and others. Miss Parker heads to Baltimore. Chinaman Hop Wa to open a laundry. dances and church prayer meetings noted. various locals travel or return from nearby towns with brief health and leisure updates.
A public notice from G. F. Cannegar, Chief of Police, warns all parties notified to work on the streets or pay taxes who have not complied. It states enforcement will occur soon to deter delinquents and reduce costs.
In Elizabethton a Democratic meeting formed the Cleveland and Stevenson Democratic Club. Speakers urged unity, praised Gov Wilcox, and adopted resolutions to organize across Carter County. Leaders named D P Wilcox, A J Patterson, Alexander Shawn, Wm McFarland, and Thomas Curtin as congressional prospects amid county rally plans.
A large group of ministers and delegates to the Holston Presbytery arrived in the city yesterday and left for nearby Rogersville and Morristown areas. Rev McClutchen of Rogersville and Rev Smith and Rev McPerrin of Morristown are listed among the visitors, with J C Cowan of the city also mentioned. The presbytery will stay in session over Sunday, and visiting ministers may fill pulpits next Sabbath.
TVTTs Pills invigorate body and mind. The City Hand Laundry has at last procured good help and are now doing some nice work. The gate onto work on tine.
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