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May 10, 1867: The East Tennessee Union Flag gave readers a weather prediction: “We have had an abundance of rain in the last few days. If it is true that a certain amount of rain falls every year, we shall have an excessive drought during the coming summer, for the present year has surely received its compliment quickly.”
The East Tennessee Union Flag was a newspaper published in Jonesborough, which was spelled that way on the masthead. However, it was spelled as both Jonesboro and Jonesboro’ inside of the newspaper.
May 10, 1884: The Comet opined, “There are ten men in Johnson City who, standing on each other’s heads, would make a pyramid nearly sixty-two feet high, with the boot and shoe man the ‘bottom rail’, and the furniture man the ‘rider’, and the pyramid would taper from four feet in diameter at the base to a darning needle at the top.” ....

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