Jan. 31, 1885: âCapt. J.W. Moore has resigned his position as conductor on the E.T., V. & G. R.R., and will return to his farm in North Carolina,â according to The Comet.
Jan. 31, 1892: The Comet reported sad news about an employee. âJohn, our pressman, is feeling unwell and says he has la grippe. He may not be able to work Monday.â
We now commonly call la grippe the flu, or influenza.
Jan. 31, 1901: âPresident McKinley has signed the Soldiersâ Home bill and Johnson Cityâs destiny is fixed,â according to news in The Comet.
Jan. 31, 1913: The Nashville Banner reported on an interesting story about a young man. With a dateline of Johnson City, readers learned, âThe case of L.D. Lewis, alias T.L. Lewis, or A. Gordon Milhado, or rather the young man with many names, who was arrested here on the charge of using unbecoming language and undue familiar conduct towards a pretty Normal School girl was taken to Jonesboro and lodged in jail.â