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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1898
Page
2
Col Jack Fan assists with the next legislature journal while Col Henry contemplates death by action rather than retreat. Knoxville fundraisers, editor moves, and wartime governance comments pepper this compact dispatch. Tennessee regiments and political remarks frame the day with sharp editorials and local disputes.
Jagged notes recount Tennessee political sniping with candidates like Gumi Coates and Gus Cates, editorial ties from Sullivan and Hardeman counties, and Democratic convention nods. Anecdotes, misprints, and local gossip blend with mentions of Col. Jack Faw and Admiral Dewey kinships.
The Hon. John R. Reaves of the Hardeman Free Press launches a vigorous Senate bid with a Friday eve speech from the Bolivar asylum steps. He vows to go to Nashville to serve, downplays critics, and pledges to advance the Democratic cause while praising liberty and duty.
A prose piece by Will s T Hale reflects on the onset of autumn in East Tennessee with vivid sensory imagery from rain to leaves and streams. The excerpt also includes Roosevelt jokes from Rough Riders and ends with a list of joint political appointments for the Democratic and Republican parties in several Tennessee towns.
An offer proclaims a sixty day free set of six War Memorial Spoons to every family sending a cash order from a furniture catalogue. Spoons feature designs of four U S battleships including the Maine and Morro Castle and are described as high quality coin silver plate on nickel silver.
A brief notice from Dundaff outlines changes in P.O. Box numbers and pickup procedures at the local post office. Residents are advised to update addresses and verify box assignments with the Dundaff postal staff.
An old advertisement touts Allen's Foot Base powder to shake into shoes. It claims cooling, reduced swelling, relief from tired feet, sores, blisters, bunions, and numbness. Sold by druggists and shoe stores for 3 cents with trial packages available from Allen B Olmstead in LeRoy New York.
Washington County Democrats met in Foxboro to nominate a congressional candidate. John Bowman, W. B. White, Gus Bowers among committee appointees. The majority report urged equal rights, bimetallism, and opposition to government by injunction as dangers to republican government.
A political movement denounces the idea of currency reform and the retirement of greenbacks as dangerous to liberties. It calls for equal tariff duties for revenue, opposes protective tariffs, and condemns trusts and monopolies as causes of national woes. The piece cites Andrew Jackson’s struggle and Jeffersonian finance principles.
A 1900 party message backs William J. Bryan as democracy’s leader and lists delegates chosen by a committee: A.D. Taylor, Wm. Humphreys, W. A. Sell, A. S. Deaderick, Baxter Taylor, J. L. Humphreys, W. Bowman, W. B. Reeves, A. S. Keebler, J. A. Radford, Henry Jackson, Benj. White, T. M. Wells, J. M. Copp, M. T. Gump, George Pip Campbell, W. P. Jobe, and Gus Bowers of Boune.
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