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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1905
Page
2
A collage of marketing copy and travel diary fragments from 1905 includes an endorsement for Scott's Emulsion as a nourishing medicine, notes on a railroad sale to Erie, political intrigues about McCall and Roosevelt, and a lengthy G A R travel recount from Denver to Colorado Springs with vivid civic pageantry and memorials.
The piece describes a lively hotel scene with guests from Louisiana and local society, noting dances, feasts, prizes, and planned balls. It reports on litigation in Virginia involving the South & Western railroad and a call for an education meeting in Jonosboro, plus Southern Railway extension work and industry chatter about Pere Marquette ownership and a tobacco deal in Clarksville.
At a boarding house run by two elderly spinsters with six female residents a man sneaked in during the night. A chase ensued as janitors and two men from Missouri joined, but the intruder escaped. The incident ended in speculation about what might have happened if he had been caught.
A bill shows defendant James Ferguson as nonresistant to the state. He must appear by the first Monday in November 1905 to plead or answer, or the bill will be confessed and set for ex parte hearing. Copy of the order to run four weeks in the Comet starting September 1905.
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