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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1909
Page
11
The opening display at Miss Hardy's millinery on Main Street showcases an extensive array of artistic hats. Turbans, beavers, and fancy styles in white, black, burgundy, salive, and wisteria dominate, with rich trims of willow plumes, marabou, and buckles. The event features Elzee and Gage lines, street and children's hats, and autumn-decorated parlors.
William Silver and Company, early adopters of the Victor talking machine, installed a complete stock of machines and records in their Main Street jewelry store. They offer demonstrations and repairs, with a jewelry stock valued at $10,000 and a range of silver, watches, and optical goods. The firm, eight years in business, includes Wm Silver and W F L Rosenblat as partners.
The stock mixes ancient and modern trends, with full jewelry lines and custom work on plans from patrons or devised by the firm. It emphasizes sterling treatment of patrons and notes a thriving local and mail order business. The piece also extols farm lands, favorable seasons, grain demand, and soil fertility aids like cow peas and rock phosphate, ending with a brief remark on fruits.
The Johnson City region offers rich fruit farming potential with diverse crops and favorable climates. Local rail links provide distribution access while Cornell expert James K. Rice touts ideal poultry conditions and year round housing. In November 1907 Washington County shipped thousands of turkeys, underscoring strong poultry and egg production.
The piece details Johnson City privilege 1650 feet elevation while noting east Tennessee Normal School sites at 1750 feet. It cites a 54 degree mean temperature, a comparative table with New York and other cities, and highlights the area’s ridges and drainage toward the Nolachucky. It mentions a modern city sewer system and a planned gravity-fed water supply from pure mountain springs owned by the city.
In August the population of 12 000 saw 1400 illness cases and seven deaths from all causes, the worst month for sickness especially among children with three under one year. Rev Dr Osborne rector of St Johns Episcopal Church led 100 communicants representing about 300 people, with Johnson City praised for its pure water climate and adequate sewage system and low death rate.
Real estate in Johnson City shows strong demand from outside buyers as the city emphasizes natural growth and manufacturing potential. Lot prices for business frontages jump from 375 to 180 per front foot to 150 and 300, reflecting a 50 percent rise in value alongside rising residential lot prices.
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