14 Dec 1888
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Newspaper
Bloomfield Democrat
Location
Bloomfield, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1888
Page
1
A mixed local page notes Bloomfield Indiana business cards, attorney ads, and a long printed poem tracing Indiana history. It includes community items about local residents, a Bloomfield News correspondent, wedding hints, and medical ads for Dr King’s New Discovery and other remedies.
Quillen Wyse called to Broomfield Friday. J S Simons returns from St Louis medical college. Lewis Hicks joins L F Beil mill. W W Aikman visits Lyons. Ada Aikman visits Sandborn. Lizzie O Neall attends institute and visits Quillen family. Winnie Wicks visits her father, returns to Worthington. Price, Fitzgerald, and Dr Rose visit sick K of P brother at Dye house. James Oldham buys land south of Lyons and moves to town. Joe Lovenchart dies after a week near Cincinnati. funeral arrangements pending. An old physician offers a patent remedy via free mail sample from W A Noel Rochester NY.
Community notes recount a Christmas tree discussion, visits by Mrs. Jane Williams to Avoca relatives, Orlando Graham's Sunday presence, Uncle Wash Spears returning west, and John Skerd named sheriff. Ovid Fields plans to return to New Albany early next year. Carry Williams reports a missing pocketbook of about $25. John Wharton’s Dakota voyage with family lasts seven weeks. Reverend Lenny begins M E church meetings.
A physician T A Slocum M C of Isl Pearlet New York advertises a cure for consumption. He claims timely use saves thousands and offers to mail two free bottles to readers who provide express and post office addresses.
Miss Tory Sharp on the sick list. D. W. Ray of Bushrod visited town. Mrs. Dora Mattox visited Miss Dora Buskirk. Stunter and Baughman have cribs filled with corn. Mr. Holstein builds new flues in the M. E. church. George Stalenp of Elnora visited. Rev. Johnson to begin protracted meeting Monday night. L. D. Ferguson hosted a social dance. Schools progress under Prof. Cushman. Mrs. Stank of Kansas visited Ike Weaver. George Fuller of Bicknell and David Alkire remain in the grain business. John Fitzgerald of Linton and Franklin Ramsey of Bloomfield were in town. Leap Year party at Pleasantville with many locals attending.
W D Hoyt Co of Rome Georgia reports two years of selling Dr King’s New Discovery Electric Bitters and Bucklen’s Arnica Salve with universal satisfaction. The firm cites several cures of consumption in the city and guarantees the remedies are sold by S Stalcup.
A collage of town visits and social ties includes Sam Graham's son in town, Squire Wakefield and wife in Broomfield, Dr Edwards and wife in Lyons, and Mrs McKinze of Bloomfield visiting. Uncle Wash Spears journeys to Owensburg. Aunt Nancy Jackson's remains pass for burial in Robinson. County notices include Frank J Cheney pledge for catarrh cure and local politics with Mullinnix, Keen comedy plans, and Dr Wilson and civil service talk. Hood's Sarsaparilla marketed for rheumatic complaints ahead of winter.
Sealth residents share news of visits and returns with J C Heaton in Bedford and Miss Ida Bullock visiting Mrs J C Heaton. James Nance returns after three years in Missouri Arkansas and Illinois. The piece notes rabbit hunters M Deckard and A B Richerson and a sighting of a ghostlike figure reported by Dick Noel. Tom Freeman remains in town despite rumors and a Cincinnati report.
Ad for The Best Salve claiming it cures cuts bruises sores ulcers and many conditions, with a money back guarantee and 25 cents per box. Sold by Steve Stalcup.
Dr Mulliniz and family stay at the Davis hotel. A S Helws traveled to Spencer on business. Uncle Henry Willams can walk with crutches as his foot improves. P East, a leading stock dealer, visited Bloomfield last Tuesday. Mrs Middleton at the city millinery store.
A garbled column notes many hometown figures including Clell Nation Charles Hanson James Bullock and Meck Combs as Newark visitors or guests in various homes and events. Other mentions include Miss Lin sey Mrs J R Bullock Joan and Gordon Bailey’s circle with multiple Bullocks and Anersons in attendance.
The article argues all irritants like douches snuffs powders syringes and astringents fail in nasal disease. It endorses Ely s Cream Balm as a non irritating remedy that reaches the affected surfaces and offers radical lasting cures for chronic catarrh.
Center Township gossip reports Ben Lindsey of Center in town Saturday and Joe Smith of Bloomfield buying cattle. A child of Joseph Hitter is sick with scrofula, while Mrs. Liza Fuller visits relatives in Center. Grist mill resumes grind Fridays and Saturdays. Reeves Cox moves from Moore County to the township. Simon Pickard buys fat cattle from James Crawford. painting contract for Baptist church awarded to J. W. Arthur.
A slice of a late 19th century page notes Hood’s Sarsaparilla promoted as a cure for salt rheum with claims of blood purification and skin healing. It also reviews a popular cyclopedia promising broad, practical content at 50 cents and lists travel promos for California by Pennsylvania Lines with holiday excursion dates. The fragment ends with nostalgic Castoria endorsements through stages of life.
The Terre Haute Gazette advocates in favor of weekly or biweekly literary gatherings in every country schoolhouse. Parents, teachers, and residents should organize district clubs with officers, debates, spelling matches, essays, and recitations. The aim is local self government through active discussion and education for all ages.
A discussion notes the twenty per cent wheat tariff and questions whether it raises prices for western wheat farmers. It emphasizes the need for balanced argument with both sides present and urges sincere belief over rhetorical posturing.
The Tri bune of New York notes official returns for most states with Colorado delays. Cleveland leads Harrison by about 110,904 nationally excluding Colorado, and 98,261 if Colorado’s Harrison estimate is included. The piece compares vote changes since 1884, cites increases for Republicans and Democrats, and mentions related court actions and local notices.
The Bloomington Bulletin notes a rapid decline of Democratic ties to the G A R. It says the grand old party’s political character can no longer be plausibly concealed as three month veterans dominate postwar activity and prominent names from the Civil War are rarely mentioned today.
On the E. and I. road workers in the section have their pay slashed to 80 cents a day, reflecting wage reductions across the line. The cut affects assigned crews and daily labor pay, drawing local response.
A playful notice echoes a classic Castoria rhyme about a mother giving Castoria to her baby and children. It parodies the old slogan by repeating the remedy through life stages with light humor.
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