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Newspaper
Bloomfield Democrat
Location
Bloomfield, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1891
Page
7
A 19th century style ad extols attractive women and links their attention to a liberal coupon offer. It urges daily subscription as a best buy, claiming four cents a week is worth more than a dollar elsewhere, framing news as desirable and accessible.
The Democrat promotes Archie White's minstrels to be held September 3 at Jones Hall with a twenty person company including brass band and orchestra. Admission 25 and 50 cents. A grand street parade is planned at noon featuring Master Morton Conner, 11, as drum major.
Kinsey Cullison John Chestnut Nick Jackson and numerous Worthington Owensburg Spencer and Lyons residents were in town over the weekend and Friday. Attendees included educators trustees printers politicians and merchants from Ridgeport Taylor Wright Center and Grant townships plus several Democrat and Republican supporters.
An advertisement touts General Grant's Memoirs at 30 cents in a mass marketing scheme through the Democrat and Cosmopolitan, offering two volumes originally priced at $7.00 with subscriptions to multiple periodicals. It lists alternative memoirs by Sherman Sheridan McClellan and McClellan, plus postage details and ordering instructions from Bloomfield Indiana.
A damaged OCR lists a regional coupon program promising cash for purchases at many Bloomfield and surrounding merchants. Names include Allen Williams Groceries, Rankin & Shielda Hardware, Geo E. Endres Harness, R. E. Eveleigh Drugs, L. H. Stalcup Drygoods, John Weaver Harness, Shields & Burcham Millinery, Cavins & Sherman Drugs, Ingles Co General Medicine, Linton Mills and more. The fragment hints at a broad merchant network in towns like Bloomfield Scotland Linton Lyons Owensburg Dugger and Dysert area with varied goods from groceries to dry goods and clothing.
Andy Hum attended church in Switz City while D J Bailey returned from Louisville for recreation. Peter Krupper and family visited Harmon Lowelle. Jack Summers joined the Spencer fair crowd and served sweet viands to locals. Wright Jarvis and bride made a brief stop. Archie Cross with scarlet fever improves. Lizzie Danford toured Spencer fair. L D Marley visited town with Dan Stantz.
The notice extols Syrup of Figs as a pleasant laxative and best family remedy, urging all households to keep a bottle. A separate list details school staff selections in Linton, with Stalcup naming teachers and the Linton School board outlining a multigrade corps led by J. L. Cravens as principal and W. M. Poe and Maggie Rector among the teachers.
An ad touts Dr Miles Pills for liver and bowels with 30 doses for 25 cents and free samples at R E Eveleighs. Separately Fairfax hosts a Shaker meeting with four lady preachers causing widespread shaking and fainting among attendees. Greene County Sunday School Convention held August 1891 in Lyons with addresses, reports, and donations.
The Worthington High School will open September 1. The coming year promises the most interesting in the school's history with a strong staff and an added physical laboratory making it the best equipped building in the region. The music course enhances its appeal for students pursuing higher studies.
The notice lists marriage licenses sued since the last report, naming Albert Wright and Belle Mansfield. Commodore Coonrod and Cora Goodman. Jot Brown and Mary Wilkie. John A. McDonald and Florence E. Sill. Isaac 8. Justice and Mary E. McIndoo. Harmon Boruif and Cora F. Parker. Paris Kirk and Belle Farnham. Moses Martindale and Ida Dickey. Thomas Holt and Eliza J. Angleton. Thos. to Heaton to Heesie Edwards. Ovary 4. Dicus and Lizzie Rodence. Also mentions Lead Shot for hog and chicken cholera.
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