Today In Johnson City History: March 6
March 6, 1898: The Chattanooga Sunday Times reported that the smallpox epidemic was getting better in Jonesboro. With a Jonesboro dateline, readers learned, ââThere is a marked improvement in the smallpox scare affliction in upper East Tennessee, so that the quarantine has been raised.â âJonesboroâ was spelled that way in 1898. There was not a daily newspaper published in Johnson City in 1898. The Comet was Johnson Cityâs newspaper at that time, and it was published on a weekly basis. March 6, 1909: The Bristol Herald Courier, with a dateline of Johnson City, rep...
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