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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1885
Page
1
In the Southwest frontier tale a scout recalls Reckless Jeff and Broncho Bertie. A young girl nicknamed Bertie joins Company E and changes a rough band with gentleness and courage. A doomed duel over liquor ends with Bertie dying and Jeff killing himself beside her grave.
William Carleton the actor and author committed death by own action on Tuesday night at his boarding house at 16 East Fourteenth Street. He had suffered gastritis, worsened, and after attempting to dictate an article, retired to his room. He closed windows, stuffed paper in the keyhole, turned on the gas, and died. He left a skull with verses on the bureau and a daughter in Philadelphia by his second wife.
A garbled set of dialogues and stray phrases features a humorous mishearing about a polite tree, a funeral greeting to Uncle Rastus, and a Stockton grammar class joke. The fragmentary passage blends stray quotes, misremembered lines, and scattered names in a retro comic style.
A vivid scene shows Jane misusing forms of the verb to be while Aunt Kate quietly counts embroidery. The child struggles to correct her errors asking what the phrase is going to are and what that going to be means, prompting a tense, humorous moment.
The Louisville & Nashville Railroad increases its World's Exposition subscription from eighteen thousand to twenty five thousand dollars and authorizes President McConmice to draw ten thousand dollars at night for the due installment. Exhibition space is filling rapidly as the Washington Territory shows interest in its World Exposition display.
The Louisville Commercial criticizes a man who mocked an east end mule and posed as a professional beauty. The piece implies such behavior deserves lasting censure and ridicules the person as a moral lapse.
The Umeago Herald notes New York continues to advance with a projected million dollar goal. Officials report steady progress and readiness pending the full financing to complete the initiative.
During illness Mrs Spurgeon asks her husband not to procure gifts she desires a piping bullfinch and an onyx ring. A benefactor sends the ring necklace and braglota, fulfilled after the tale reaches its wife. He explains the gifts came from a grateful beneficiary of his tabernacle services.
A passerby stands on Chestnut near the Continental wearing blue serge and a soft blue hat, with a brown gingham umbrella. He studies an open map, asks a local for the Post Office location, and complains the streets are unfamiliar and difficult to navigate.
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