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Newspaper
Bloomfield Democrat
Location
Bloomfield, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1890
Page
4
Fragmented verse centered on color and imagery with references to electricity surgery and a lyric figure. The text presents a dreamlike scene featuring vivid garb and mythical descriptions, culminating with the name Helen Gray Cone.
Lenieville based Electrical and Burgital Department head will visit Bloomfield February 26 to 27 at the Davenport Hall House. He offers electric treatments for nose catarrh deafness stammering hair removal pimple skin diseases and many other conditions with a guarantee. Consultations free and correspondence confidential at No 520 Fifth Street Louisville Ky.
A young man questions the true cost of his fiancée Jess as she lists wardrobe and social expenditures. Their playful budget estimates reveal a modern marriage reality, with Jess asserting a higher living cost and the man reluctantly agreeing to a constrained plan. The tale contrasts romance with practical finances.
A Vermont farmer and his wife touring Montpelier pause before the Ethan Allen statue. The husband breaks the silence with the remark that he always thought Ethan Allen was a horse, prompting amusement in a San Francisco Argonaut quote.
A detailed look at clergy pay shows average Protestant ministers earning under $1,000 yearly with top figures in the 50s to 60s thousands for leaders in finance and medicine, contrasting with large church estates. It notes Trinity and Hall churches, Grace, Ascension, St. Thomas, and St. George as major properties with multi‑million valuations and substantial annual incomes spent largely on charitable work. It discusses the disparity between salaries and responsibilities, cautioning that ten church leaders control vast patrimonies and must balance living standards with duties.
In a Cedars area scene, five men with paste and long poles erect a 100 foot long boarding with a sixteen sheet poster set. The posters show Barnum and his show, Jumbo, gallery of freaks, and many acts. The display, pasted in four teen minutes, draws Dickensian reactions from English observers and a crowd. Nearby, a Savannah family builds a schooner in Pensacola, with four brothers and a sister shaping lines, timbers, and sail plans for a vessel 80 feet long, to sail the Gulf.
A Paris correspondent catalogs William II’s vanity and press manipulation, noting his egotistical style and the ritual of special editions, while a St Louis quote criticizes the waiting room charity and the echo of his self-regard. The piece closes with observations on women’s and men’s neckwear tastes and gifts.
A five year search for Mahala J Arnold ends when her father James J Arnold traces her to McAlva Cherokee County where a woman called Sal Wheeler Colbert left the girl with Emma memory of her real name. The abducted child, now nine, is described as bright and pleasant with an intelligent face.
A Dalou sculpture honors Victor Noir, slain in 1870 by Prince Pierre Bonaparte after a Rochefort led lampoon. Noir, once a Marseillaise reporter, is depicted dying on Paris pavement near the prince’s Auteuil residence. The piece is for a Paris committee to erect in the city.
The sultan plans to monetize his many curiosities as access to the Dar es-Sandet and St Irene remains restricted. London jeweler experts doubt the value of the collection, noting its size could surpass European crown treasures if genuine. Guard corruption and theft fears grow as three helmets were stolen from St Irene before closure, later sold cheaply to a Pera resident, then one helmet resold for a thousand pounds.
Coronado Beach inventor S A Lef fingwell through Clara Foltz seeks a sea based wave driven motor to power shore machinery and electric lights. A float with deep tubes traps air, pumps it into a reservoir to drive a engine on the float, transmitting electricity by cable. Experiments showed satisfactory results for a deep sea installation.
A London correspondent recalls Stanley's hair turning white from expedition privations, noting prior reports of gray hair that actually turned black again years ago. The piece cites telegrams and suggests the rapid color change was widely observed yet unlikely to recur, citing the explorer's fame.
A New York Sun passage outlines Japanese legal procedure with a rostrum docks and green baize desks. It notes no jury in common pleas, prosecutor judge and clerk at the bench, prisoner in the dock, and trial culminating in sentence. A separate town vignette describes a silent man with two dogs, one brown coat, the other wiry, neither remarkable yet oddly captivating to passersby.
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