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March 12, 1869: The East Tennessee Union Flag alerted readers, “Our friends and patrons will take notice, that the Union Flag Office will be removed next week, to the old
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âDonât use poor implements.â
âDonât let your plow get rusty nor dull.â
âDonât let your mind get rusty nor dull.â
âDonât stint your family in home comforts.â
âDonât fail to subscribe for The Comet.â
âDonât starve your stock nor skin your land.â
âDonât own more land than you can work well.â
âDonât imagine that you will ever get through learning.â
âDonât expect your cow to do much better by you than you do by her.â
âDonât throw away money by allowing good manure to go to waste.â
âDonât die without contributing your mite towards making the world better.â
March 9, 1866: The East Tennessee Union Flag, a newspaper in Jonesborough, reported about a recent marriage. âAt the residence of the brideâs father, on yesterday evening the 8th inst., by the Rev. Nathan (indecipherable), Hon. J.H. Gaut, of Cleveland, Tenn., to Miss Ella, daughter of Judge S.J.W. Lucky, of this place.â
Jonesborough was spelled that way at the time.
âThe 8th inst.â was a way of writing March 8, with the âinst.â Indicating the present month.
March 9, 1910: The Herald and Tribune, a newspaper in Jonesboro reported on church news from Johnson City the day prior. âThe first of a series of denominational dinners, with Bishop William F. McDowell, of Chicago, and Bishop William F. Anderson, of Chattanooga, as guests, was given tonight in the social rooms of the First Methodist Episcopal church (sic) here. One hundred and fifty ministers and laymen, representing every church in the Greeneville district, were present.â