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A catalog style notice offers Carpets Mattings Muga Git Cloths Window Shingdes Lace and Scrim Blinds Furkish Towels Felt in all colors available for purchase or order.
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Newspaper
Bloomfield Democrat
Location
Bloomfield, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1888
Page
3
A catalog style notice offers Carpets Mattings Muga Git Cloths Window Shingdes Lace and Scrim Blinds Furkish Towels Felt in all colors available for purchase or order.
A dated listing features numerous apparel items: Sacks Frecks Cuiaways Prince Alberts Fat Weis Suiits Lone Men's Suits Boys' Suits Mids Suites Tracks Valises Ambrellas Specialities in Shocs Bulton Lace and Congress N E 2nd F Lasts Spring Heels and more. The ad markets a wide range of shoes and accessories for men women and children.
A local ad proclaims a great special on plain and fancy prints and ginghams through Pateens with domestic and imported fabrics from half wool to all wool cadimeres and silks. It highlights laces embroideries white goods notions and mens goods with a promise to locate items if not visible.
A newspaper notice to readers explains mail order service for home merchants and offers cash customers on narrow gauge or FE I railroads up to ten dollars a round trip fare refund. The deal lasts thirty days and seeks customer orders by mail.
WANTS FOR SALE. ANTED ASH TIMBER highest cash price for second growth ash by Sanford Fork and Toul Company Terre Haute Ind. OLD PAPERS for sale at this office. FOR SALE good sales antial bogey no top suitable for washing machine agent inquiry at this office. tf
Pension grants issued to F Graham of Scotland and the widow S Burehais of Mineral City. Fresh fish abundant at Bloomfield market. 1000 bushels of corn at retail by W G Jones. Castrating services offered by Charles Dizon. Commissioners meet to settle with trustees at 7 percent. G W Osboy of Bloomfield and others referenced. Compound Oxygen treatment advertised. Garden making activity noted. Saw mill sale by Pearson Bros. Subscriptions available for newspapers and magazines. John W Philipps marries. Henry Hill mentioned with seventy six sheep pelts killed by dogs. Brick block interest offered by Renkin and Shiekls. Contact office for details.
A long, item filled column describing local notices, farm work and contracts, marriages, arrivals, student enrollments, a normal opening, and various residents and merchants in Bloomfield and surrounding townships. The piece includes vendor promotions, doctor visits, and community updates from the era with names like J. Pigg, Jacob Nicholson, J. G. Smith, and M. J. Beckett. Frequent references to local schools, mills, a railroad extension, and public notices appear throughout the column.
A collage of advertisements from Bloomfield papers touts low priced goods. Eveleighs promotes wall paper shades and a new patterns display at its drug store while Pringle Williams and N. O. molasses offer cheap gal value. Walker’s meat market hawks smocked hams and fresh bacon as spring shopping begins. The notes include a bankrupt stock sale on shoes at City Shoe Store and an auction of sawmill equipment at Pearson Bros. near Bloomfield with staged installments.
A series of testimonial letters from Indiana readers claim Warner's Safe Cure cured kidney and liver ailments, dyspepsia and back pain. Beneficiaries describe improved health after using multiple bottles and pills, noting restored strength and vitality and ability to work.
The Chicago Times article argues that black population growth will continue, comparing it to a glacier and predicting larger crania with smaller families once future planning rises. It condemns reliance on “cock bebks” as a supposed cure and contrasts Black and Irish fertility, presenting eugenic assumptions about race and intelligence.
Complaint 3247 filed by William C. Woustélus against Albert state hinsen seeks to enforce collection. Defendant must answer or demur by the fourth Monday of April at the Greene County Courthouse or risk default judgment.
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