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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1898
Page
4
A collection of light social quips on patience and fashion contrasts with firsthand Civil War era letters. Veterans from Cuba recount wounds and grim courage, noting pain, hospital rides, and battlefield resolve alongside humorous observations about women and domestic life.
Private Benn Jones of the First Til.' nois dies just before his father reaches his bedside after a day of fever and stupor. In his last moments he prompts Nurse Mary to speak the Lord's words, then interrupts with his own mock line and drifts into eternal sleep. Chicago Times-Herald.
A July letter from Santiago de Cuba describes how Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy kept pack-train teams functioning after a diarrhoea outbreak amid troop shortages. The writer credits the medicine with saving lives and enabling supply to the front, noting the August Des Moines company and local dealer Rt. 8 Bolten.
Grand Olpt Distribution promotes a sixty day offer of a full set of six War Memorial Spoons with any furniture order, promising durable coin silver plate spoons featuring four U.S. battleships. The campaign aims to add fifty thousand names to its customer list and urges readers to request a catalogue from Quakur Valury Mra. Co. at 857 W Harrison St Chicago.
Southern Railway offers a special Bristol to Asheville excursion on September 1 leaving Bristol at 8:00 a.m. and Johnson City at 9:00 a.m. arriving Asheville at 3:25 p.m. Returning September 20 at 7:00 p.m. CST. Round trip fare $1.75 with accommodations for white and colored passengers. For details contact Southern Railway Ticket Agents.
A fragmented notice blends quips on human behavior with early 20th century patent medicines. It parodies logic about eye and ear judgment, hints at hard work, and touts Hall’s Catarrh Cure and Allen’s Foot Ease with claimed efficacy and prices. Names and places appear in garbled form, reflecting OCR artefacts and period advertising language.
Quarantine restrictions ease or are raised in New Orleans and Mississippi as fever conditions improve in parts of the South. Troop illness spans about a quarter of forces at Ponow with low death rates reported. Reports from London, Paris, and Havana note political shifts, peace conference talks, and American intervention plans in Cuba Porto Rico and the Philippines. European powers respond to czar’s peace proposal while US gold reserves reach a record high. Industrial and military developments include wheat deals, Kitchener’s campaigns, insurgent activity in the Philippines, and Miles's public statements on war leadership. Domestic notices discuss food distribution, and local political shifts in Tennessee and Illinois. Arduous conditions and censorship mark coverage of the ongoing conflict.
Trustee O J Brovies leverages a deed of trust dated December 22 1800 to sell lot 12 in the Faw addition on Market Street Johnson City Tennessee the fronting 28 feet and running 125 feet to the B T V and G railroad right of way at auction at Jobe's Opera House on October 8 1898 the sale is for cash with no equity of redemption.
The Southern Railway joint line offers daily through sleeping cars Nashville to New York via Chattanooga Knoxville and Asheville with daytime mountain views. A second daily train runs Nashville to New York via similar routes carrying Pullman sleepers. Summer resorts accessible from Asheville Lookout Mountain and Tennessee Valleys are highlighted with low fares and a brochure by C A Benscoter Assistant General Passenger Agent Chattanooga Tennessee.
An early 20th century travel-promotional piece extols Hot Springs Arkansas as a health and pleasure resort owned and promoted by rail lines. It cites lodging options, climate, pine forests, and ease of travel from cities like Nashville and Chattanooga, touting cheap rates and direct routes with minimal transfers.
Fragmented OCR text shows rail line names such as Termassee and Western and Westwai Eastwani with garbled numbers. Mentions race results like HAL 46-7 and scattered scores, dates, and names are unreadable. The readable elements indicate a local rail and racing context but lack coherent events or persons to identify.
Fragmented OCR text outlines train routes and sleeper services from Harriman to Cincinnati and Pullman routes via Louisville and New York. Mentions specific times such as 5am and 7.80pm, with references to Sleeper cars and various stations. Strong entities include Harriman, Pullman Sleeper, Cincinnati, Louisville, and New York. The readable portions imply intercity rail scheduling and sleeper connections in a historical context.
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