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Source: Comet Source type: newspaper Document type: news column Document title: “Local and Personal” Author(s): anonymous City of publication: Johnson City, Tennessee Date of publication: 19 September 1901 Volume number: 17 Issue number: 898 Pagination: [3] |
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| “Local and Personal.” Comet 19 Sept. 1901 v17n898: p. [3]. |
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| William McKinley (mourning); William McKinley (death: public response: Johnson City, TN). |
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| none. |
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Local and Personal [excerpt]
Several of our merchants draped their places of business in mourning in honor of the dead president but the mourning window at the Palace Shoe Store deserves special mention. There was so much taste displayed that it was realy [sic] beautiful in its solemnity, and one could easily imagine that the body was lying in state there.