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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1887
Page
1
In a Knoxville style column, Prohibition advocates urge voters to ban liquor, arguing it protects families and public morals. The piece decries saloons, promotes divine right and duty, and frames the ballot as a national care. Also notes Prof. Lisette memory training success and humorist Fred Caruth’s rise after leaving Dakota.
The interview outlines General Wilder’s plan for a Charleston to Ashland rail line through eastern Kentucky and western North Carolina, claiming it will be the fastest route to the seaboard from Chicago and Cincinnati. Wilder stresses rich mineral regions, coal beds, iron ores, and a large workforce, with期待 two and a half years to completion and 6000 workers currently employed.
A mosaic of brief notices reviews Green's August Flower as a health remedy amid complaints of dyspepsia and liver issues. It mentions vigilance at voting precincts for prohibition and outlines election-day logistics, including banners and ticket printing. It also reports on cotton manufacturing growth, a mortgage filing for the Charleston Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad, and related regional details in York county and surrounding areas.
The article promotes Dr King’s New Discovery as a remedy after Captain Coleman of the Atlantic City to New York route found instant relief from a cough and chest soreness. It mentions free trial bottles at McFarland’s Drug Store and touts the remedy as standard aboard the Coleman schooner. It also includes a long temperance/political appeal urging Tennessee women to mobilize for the September 20 vote, framing the issue as safeguarding home and family with a slogan “God and Home and Native Land.”
A discussion of laxative remedies criticizing bolte ws and pollond for causing violent, painful evacuations and stomach gripe. It promotes Epperlint and Hos totir's Stomach Bitters as gentler laxatives that invigorate the stomach and body. Also claims Topdielne GA A helps nervous debility, rheumatism, kidney and bladder inactivity, and malaria prevention.
The October issue of Frank Leslie's Sunday Magazine offers a varied table of contents with serials, short stories, poems, arts and sciences. Highlights include Mrs. Alexander's Fashionable Attire of Woman and Dr. Joseph Simms's The Forehead, plus a valuable physiologamy study illustrated with portraits of eminent men.
A Dallas youth overrates the telephone and plans to explain a missed engagement. He claims a serious accident but only reveals torn beat pants from the Rio Grande to the Red River when he lifts his coat toward the phone, causing gales of laughter.
An advertisement touts Rangam Rot Liniment as a universal cure for sprains bruises rheumatism cramps inflammation swelling burns and horse ailments with a 30 cent bottle price sold by M A McFarland. The note also mentions William D Howells planning another trip to the legislative capital and a mud turtle with 1890 burned on it found near Washington Site in Madison County Minnesota.
Statements from multiple state prisons claim a strong link between alcohol and crime. A Chaplain at Chaplin State Prison in Auburn New York cites seventy five percent or more of crime tied to alcoholic drinks. Other quotes reference Nebraska and Nevada facilities with similar sentiments.
Dyspepsia devastates lives and drives some to despair yet Hood's Sarsaparilla is advertised as a gently effective remedy that tones the stomach cures headaches and refreshes the mind giving readers a fair trial. A Michigan child pasted 2,125 four leaf clover specimens on a church fair card as a noted oddity.
In Texas near Paris, J. E Corley, once bedridden and dying of consumption, regained health after using Dr Kings New Discovery and New Life Pills. Two bottles and two boxes later he weighed thirty six pounds heavier and was fully recovered. Free trial bottles of the Discovery offered at McFarland's Drug Store. Bucklen's Arnica Salve advertised for cuts, bruises, sores, and skin eruptions with a money back guarantee. Sold by M. A. McFarland.
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