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March 6, 1898: The Chattanooga Sunday Times reported that the smallpox epidemic was getting better in Jonesboro. With a Jonesboro dateline, readers learned, “”There is a marked improvement in the smallpox scare affliction in upper East Tennessee, so that the quarantine has been raised.” “Jonesboro” was spelled that way in 1898. There was not a daily newspaper published in Johnson City in 1898. The Comet was Johnson City’s newspaper at that time, and it was publishe...