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Newspaper
Bedford Weekly Mail
Location
Bedford, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1901
Page
4
An old advertisement touts Humphreys Witch Hazel Oil as a cure for piles hemorrhoids burns skin rashes and many ailments. It lists three sizes 25c 50c and 1 00 and notes availability from druggists or by mail from Humphreys Medicine Co New York City.
Rail items note Garry Richardson resuming brakeman duty on the 13. & O. Branch and Kirby Jamerson promoted to First Assistant Baggage Smasher at Monon depots. Southern Indiana hauls coal from Greene county mines northward. Ernest Hunter resigns to attend Purdue. Proposals for depot at Seymour and new Monon passenger coaches described.
Benson's Plaster is touted as the best medicated poultice for coughs colds chest diseases rheumatism grip neuralgia kidney trouble and back pain. The ad urges avoiding Capsicum or Belladonna plasters and claims wide professional acclaim with 55 top awards and 5,000 doctors endorsing it. Seabury & Johnson manufacture in New York offering 25 cent postage and imitations to avoid.
A pleading advertisement describes a baby starving for fat and pain from undernourishment. It promotes Scott’s Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil as the fat that can save the child, urging readers to mail for details and noting the product’s availability from Scott & Bowne at 499 Pearl Street.
A long dispatch notes Lord Kitchener unsuccessfully pressing Boer forces in Cape Colony while various international tensions ripple. Reports bulk from West Virginia to Indiana and Kentucky include a deadly dynamite blast, smallpox in Murray Kentucky, stolen mail at Wyandotte, and complex imperial moves in China and Europe.
A powder named Allen's Foot Base claims to cure chilblains frostbites damp sweating and swollen feet. Sold by druggists and shoe stores for 25 cents with free samples. Address Allen S Olmsted LeRoy N Y.
Mr and Mrs S O Williams attended Bedford last week. Jacob Mathes of Tunnelton spent Sunday here. Mr and Mrs B C Wicker and Jessie were here Sunday. W M Lee went to Leesville Sunday for his wife’s medicine. Thomas Dixon of Cincinnati visited home folks. Harry Smith of Rivervale came Friday. Mr Foster of Leesville and J H Beaver of Pinhook were here Friday. D A Lee is cutting wood for J D Guthrie near Tunnelton. Dr Butler of Leesville was here Wednesday and last week. C W Boyd had a Christmas turkey dinner. A scrap occurred Monday. John Smith left Monday for Illinois to visit.
The seven story stone building of the Columbia Club, Indiana's prominent political organization, was dedicated in Indianapolis last night.
The notice lists yearly subscription prices for Weekly Main, Indianapolis Journal, St Louis Globe Democrat, Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, and Indiana Farmer with bundled rates. It also provides agent names and towns for mail subscriptions including River Vale Avoca Zimri Bennett Bartlettsville Bryantsville Deal Fayetteville Ft Ritner Georgia Guthrie Heltonville Huron Leipsic Popcorn Red Cross Silverville Springville Coxton and others.
Reads like a late 19th or early 20th century column listing visits and departures. Curt Uttercack of Smoots Moorville visits relatives. Mrs Q P Smith returns from Bono township. Abe Kindred and family travel to Bedford. others like Willard Ingle, Mrs Easton, Burlington Wray, and infant deaths noted. Also reports Home-seekers' Excursions dates and destinations across many states and regions. Dispatches mention China ceasefire, Northwest blizzards, and Boer War updates. Various local residents visit, travel, or conduct business in Bedford, Linton, Oolitic, and Crawfordsville.
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