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    1. Edwards
    2. A restaurant keeper in the Jellico and Coal Creek country of Kentucky has the following business card: "Twenty-five cents an Eat - 25 cents a sleep. The Edwards House, P.M. Edwards Proprietor (Coal Creek, Tenn.), directly opposite R.R. Depot. Not the largest hotel in the berg. Not newly furnished throughout. No free bus to trains. Not the best grub the market affords. But simply clean beds and something good to eat. Toothpicks and ice water thrown in. Try Us! Pay Up! And if not satisfied keep mum. Our city is composed mostly of hogs, diggers, merchants and lawyers, named in the order of their importance. Good crosstie walks on all the principal thoroughfares." Bucks County Gazette, Bristol, Penn., Dec 9, 1897 Not sure where the Jellico and Kentucky part fits in....

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