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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1897
Page
3
An old time newspaper item touts a patent remedy promising to cure a cold in one day. It advertises pine tar and honey as the main ingredients and encourages readers to buy from local druggists with stated guarantees.
Rev H M Peebles and his young son from Okolona are improving after diphtheria and will be out soon. Miss Bessie Lou Burgess departs for Southwest Virginia Institute in Bristol. Local events note a Watauga picnic where Odd Fellows will lay the cornerstone for a new hall. Summers Barton & Parrott sell fertilizers. A. A. Taylor moves from Chucky Valley to Hobin's Roost. City schools report 670 students across fourteen teachers, with one room nearing 40 pupils.
Neglected winter coughs and colds risk pneumonia. Dr Bell's Pine Tar Honey advertises cure for winter and summer colds and any cough. Miss Mattie Henderson hosted Friday evening for Roanoke visitors Mae Jones and Willie Hurt with many attendees listed.
$100 reward offered for any case Hall's Catarrh Cure fails to cure. Claims a constitutional treatment that reaches blood and mucous surfaces to destroy the disease's foundation and build up the patient. Includes note to send testimonials and mail order for the remedy.
The community mourns Minnie Easley who died after months of poor health. About thirty, she spent most of her life in faith and charity, living with her aunt Mrs. E Reeves. Funeral at the residence, burial in the family graveyard on the farm now owned by Mr. James Aunt.
Restore vitality with Electric Bitters proclaimed as especially suited for relief of female complaints. Claims include improved appetite digestion headaches dizziness and sleep disturbances with promised health and strength from purchase at McParland & Co drug store.
Hart and Simth announce the best selection of desirable merchandise ever offered to customers. Everything is fresh and new with prices for the best qualities, not old styles, promising value and reliability.
Local store promotes new fabrics 80 cent line all wool 36 inch wide with bold claims of best styles and prices. The Board of Education accepted Miss Mattie Johnston’s resignation, Miss Stanley taking her grade and Miss Lena Anderson replacing her. A Sunday fire in Maupin Row burned two small houses, one occupied by Joe Scott, the other vacant. Magnetic Building and Loan Assn enters voluntary liquidation with W G Mathes as assignee and injunction to restrain suits. Connecticut Land Co stockholders met to discuss a dam on Watauga river at King's Shoals to supply power for Johnson City, planning to begin work immediately.
Rev Frank Willis Barnett delivered his farewell sermon as assistant pastor of First Baptist Nashville. He will visit New York before assuming pastorate in Forsyth Georgia and has earned strong local support for his ministry and character.
A local notice describes a reunion of the G A R at a Lake Watausee site yesterday, hampered by heat but attended by veterans. Maj. A Currntwell delivered the notable speech, and a sixty dollar collection was raised for a Tennessee Union soldiers monument.
An advertisement touts OOD S Sarsaparilla as repeatedly proven to cure when others fail and promotes Gold Dust flour as the best. The copy stresses reliable blood purifier benefits and superior baking performance without offering verifiable evidence or specifics.
A writ is issued by Justice M I Gump for Washington county Tennessee in favor of M E Wells Furniture Co against Linville River Lumber Co for a debt of 106 55 on probated account. The attachment levied on property including a road wagon and four harnesses. The defendant must appear October 11 1897 in Johnson City Tennessee to defend or face ex parte proceedings.
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