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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1898
Page
4
A concise guide to naval salutes detailing gun twenty-one action rules at sea and in port, the proper order of entering officers aboard, sideboy duties, and the etiquette for addressing ranks. It notes sunrise sunset limits for salutes, flag display, and the role of boat crews and bands in national ICAO ceremonies.
Miss Amanda and Dollis Bayles visit Jane the cook Sunday. Estella Bayless returns to Embreeville after two weeks near Lydia. Miss Lydia McIntire torn between a Denton apple and vines as she awaits options. Soldier visitors Mose Betox Vines Barleton and others return home. Vines hopes for quick recovery from chills. Hood's Sarsaparilla urged as nerve tonic.
A jumble of notes reports a western man patenting a movable keyboard for instruments, a furniture protecting brush, a pack-train letter praising Chamberlain's remedy for diarrhoea aiding troops, a Brazilian patent for an hollow dental tooth, colored clay pipes, a bicycle hub with dyeing spokes, a hair dye brush, and a collapsible tub for baths.
Orand Gift Distribution offers a free full set of six War Memorial Spoons to every U S family for sixty days to build a customer list. Each spoon features a unique design including four U S battleships and notable landmarks. catalogue request requires stamps for postage.
Varied items include Salvation Army milestone, Irish turf export to San Francisco, Cuban Bible distribution, London fashion, Atlantic City fireproof building talks, Spain's historic size, and cancer rise blamed on meat. Also notes on Cuban forests, Welsh coal disputes, a catarrh cure, and Allen's Foot Ease advertisement for 39 cents.
A Chicago Times-Herald piece recalls how a barber's face washing evokes motherly care. The essay ties family rituals to how boys resist washing faces, lampooning maternal methods and noting a broader belief in unlucky thirteen symbols on the quarter and eagle.
An old advertisement promotes Electric Bitters as an alterative and tonic to improve health by acting on the stomach liver and kidneys. It claims cures for boils pimples and blotches and a better complexion with every bottle guaranteed. Sold at drug stores for 60 cents.
Trustee's sale announced for October 8 1898 at Jobe's Opera House Johnson City Tennessee. The lot number twelve in the Faw addition on Market street fronts 28 feet and extends 125 feet to the right of way of the railroad formerly B T V and G R R now Southern R R.
The Southern Railway with connections operates daily through sleeping cars from Nashville to New York via Chattanooga Knoxville and Asheville. Two daytime mountain views are offered as the route runs past East Tennessee and Western North Carolina along the French Broad River with schedules arriving in New York around noon or afternoon.
The Southern Railway unveils a folder titled Summer Homes and Resorts describing almost a thousand summer resort hotels and lodging houses. It lists popular destinations like Asheville Lookout Mountain Tate Springs and Virginia springs with details on rates and rail access. A. Benscotch, Assistant General Passenger Agent, Chattanooga, Tenn.
The article touts Hot Springs Arkansas as a premier health and pleasure resort with government endorsed facilities and summer accommodations at Arlington and Park hotels and 20 boarding houses. It promotes the city as cool and elevated and provides travel details for Southern Railway routes and reduced excursion tickets via agents in Nashville, Chattanooga, St. Louis, and Chicago areas.
Fragmentary OCR text shows scattered names such as Crab Oreband and Shell Geek along with dates and locations like Florida, Parcedsronit, and Ame AU MO. Content is garbled and lacks coherent events or notices to summarize.
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