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Today In Johnson City History: March 29
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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, 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, reported on recent activity at Munsey Memorial Church. âThe concrete floor in the basement of Munsey Memorial church (sic) has been completed and the room will soon be ready for the library and school equipment. Arrangements for purchasing all supplies are being looked into by Rev. S.B. Vaught, who will have absolute charge of all of it. A set of rules and by-laws governing the Munsey club (