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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1894
Page
2
An obscure notice announces a new policy at a local store run by Lyle and On’y regarding office services and the sale of jobs and subscriptions. The wording is garbled but indicates quick attention and hireable opportunities.
The column surveys looming elections and party strategy for Congress and state offices, praising Democratic candidates and critiquing Republicans. It notes shifts in public sentiment, the potential composition of the next House, and references to a pamphlet by Representative Hall detailing Congressional actions during the silver debate era.
Gov. Taylor's manager announces Col Columbus Marchbanks of Chattanooga as a leading southern orator to lecture in the 1894 95 season. Described as a skilled lawyer with magnetic presence and a rich brindled brogue, Marchbanks is billed to discuss The Harp of a Thousand Strings and is expected to draw large Julin son City audiences.
Rev John T Hickman preached at Fordtown last Sunday. Tom Hales baby died last Saturday and was buried Sunday. Annie Male and Mo Wilkerton illnesses noted. Wheat threshing faces poor yield. James F P Martins family ill with Roy and Bertie among them. Cedar Greek Academy hires Barnet and Hale as assistant teachers for October term. Julie Ford of Yakeleys Ferry died after watermelon illness with suspected poisoning. Charley Martin and Gordie visited Pred W DeVault family. Hart and Wiles joined on Sunday.
The Rev White preached at Antioch on Sunday. John Leach and family visited his father in law Dr Hufline. John Wees Dulaney has remodeling work underway and will be improved upon completion. Citizens attended a Democratic Executive Committee meeting in Jonesboro. Thomas Lawrance died suddenly last Thursday at his Brush Creek home after a sequence of dental issues. The note urges pride in local production and betterment of one's own town.
The highest award was given for superiority in leavening power keeping properties purity and excellence. The Chief Chemist of the United States Department of Agriculture backed the jury’s verdict after testing baking powders. The report declares Dr Price's Cream Baking Powder superior to all others and rejects alum powders as unwholesome.
In Flourville the community notes two weddings at the homes of J Bowman and later John A Bowman and Lillie E Crow with Rev M B Upchurch officiating. Other locals, including Julia Allison improving slowly and Lora Galloway visiting, are mentioned alongside farm work and travel between Texas and nearby towns.
Local notice urges support for W. B. Bowman as representative candidate in the upcoming election. It praises his friendliness and adaptability, warns of rival Bill Bowman, and appeals to voters in Johnson City and Warrington County to back W. B. Bowman with sustained campaign effort.
Local river visitors from Denver and Bristol mingle with watermelon harvests and a comical fat versus lean baseball game lineup led by J M Irwin and Foy Dulaney. A prize two thirds in the boom to Johnson City is promised, with deaths of Mrs. Buckner and a Cherokee burial noted.
Dr FB Hanesh of Umatilla visits relatives on the river for several weeks. Wally DeVault loses a fine young horse by leaping through bars and breaking its neck. A double wedding occurs last Sunday with John Bowman and Mire Lillie Crow and Jene Crow and Miss Emma Bowman. Robi Collins and family move from Washington county to Umatilla. Bob Collins, a Washington county native, has been in Florida about nine years. Sept 4. Husvan Ripans Tabules cure scarlet fever.
A race riot threat in Herfan City Orangybury County prompted county officials to deploy deputies to enforce a cotton pickers’ wage plan. A white farmer was beaten after a Black worker picked for 40 cents per hundred, provoking arrests and heightened tensions between Black and white residents.
Advertises Christy and Gourley a west Buffalo area blacksmith and wagon shop near the old warehouse. Describes them as capital workmen who do good work and promise living figures and satisfaction, noting a price point of $82.
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