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Newspaper
Bloomfield Democrat
Location
Bloomfield, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1889
Page
6
The Bloomfield Indiana newspaper The Democrat declares it has double the county’s circulation and invites advertisers to inspect subscription records. It notes entry at the Bloomfield Post Office as Second Class Matter.
Notice explains how to read printed dates on subscriptions with paid through dates, outlines advance payment requirements, and states that in county nonpaying or late payers may have papers stopped. It also notes noncounty subscribers must pay in advance and papers will be stopped at expiration.
A Cincinnati gentleman notes that the evidences lie in the $50,000 homes built by members of the robber trust in the Queen City. Money from Knox county parents funded high school book prices. Six trustees backed a resolution drafted to favor the robbers on the school book issue.
Knox county educators argue the school book issue hinges on freeing the public from a gouging monopoly they call a malignant threat. They urge temporary sacrifice to end the fraud that sustains it and secure justice for parents.
Copies of the new school books were on display at the county institute last week and examined by most teachers who found them excellent. Binding and engraving surpass the electric series and suit school use. County teachers cooperate fully with the new law and will support its success.
Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co. offer textbooks at a 59 percent reduction as required by the new law, portraying the move as proof they have long robbed the public.
Clerk Ramsey issued licenses to James N. Moore and Anna Busby Elmer Perkins and Mary Walker Will S Boruff and Lizzie Moore Curtis E Dit temore and Lyda Mitchell James L Brannon and Minerva Haskett in the latest list of marriages.
Everitt High Grade and New Monarch wheat offered for exhibition and sale at Bloomfield Mills and Washington township residence. Varieties praised for hardiness and milling quality, yielding thirty bushels per acre on thin sand soil without fertilizer from one bushel seed. Melvin Clegaton Plummer Indiana. Hog cholera appears locally. Guard against it with Dead Shot as preventive and cure.
A long list of visitors and locals drop by the town on Friday to Sunday. Trustees Rush Bogard Deckard Ballard and others from Jackson, Smith, Grant, Center, and Washington townships were noted for business, road tax, and book purchases. Prominent Democrats and Republicans mingled with residents as Rev. Redwine preached and several families hosted guests.
A fragment describes a Vik Stone frame dwelling in Detroit with timber, height details, ground and second floor layouts, and an estimated cost of 4000 dollars. The text shifts to biographical details on New Jersey figure George La Monte, Prohibitionist candidate and bank president, tracing his birth, education at Union College, and career in education and paper manufacturing. Nearby incidents report a Chippewa Falls train robbery, a Kentucky well incident, an Alabama homicide, a Lightning death in Pipe City NL, and a Hopkinsville boiler explosion with casualties.
An article by Clark offers interior furnishing ideas suitable for seaside or summer cottages. It stresses affordable, movable bungalows that can be built for $200 to $1,000, appealing to owners who prefer privacy over crowded hotels and inviting both decorators and home artists to use the designs.
A broad roundup notes public receptions in Boston for a president, investigations into the Washington Pension Office, and various political and social items. Reports cover floods, typhoid linked to sewage, river rescues, land acts, duels, suicides, inventions, and early industrial strikes. Includes Edison’s Paris visit, Congo railway funds, and labor disputes ending in wage gains for coke workers.
A note argues that many white soaps claim to be as good as Ivory but are inferior counterfeits lacking its unique qualities. It urges readers to request Ivory Soap by name to ensure they receive the genuine product.
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