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Newspaper
Bloomfield Democrat
Location
Bloomfield, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1891
Page
1
A fragmented archival line indicates a Bloomfield Indiana newspaper section dated Friday February 27 1991. It notes business content and a subscription price of 1.50 per year and mentions post office entry as second class matter.
Fragmentary OCR mentions a salary bill affecting clerks in the galley with figures for auditor and treasurer and a note that it does not apply to officers elected in 1890. The garbled text references dates 26/27 and a hall or gallery context.
A fragmented court testimony links a 400000 annual loss to advertising choices by Oya Baking Powder Co. The company attributes its failures to heavy reliance on newspaper advertising and broad campaigns rather than targeted marketing.
The document records amended pay figures for county roles including Auditor Treasurer Sheriff and Clerk. Specific salaries cited range from $1,500 to $3,000 across positions. The amendment was defeated as noted in the text.
A brief note records a United Republican senator election outcome with mention of an alliance and ballot phrasing. No full names or locations are clear from the fragment, but the item implies a political result and intra party alignment.
A fragment recalls a petition to the Supervisors and a sweeping denial, with uncertainty about memory and a note that the speaker has forgotten details. The text suggests an incomplete record of civil proceedings and a lingering ambiguity about the acted and proposed measures.
A terse 1880 era crime and population summary notes a 27.28 percent rise in crime over the prior decade. It lists increases by race and origin, including Chinese, Japanese, whites, and foreign born residents, with figures cited for convicts and parental statuses. The fragment hints at broader social data and aging issues in the recorded period.
The study shows 43 127 known parentage convicts with 14 725 foreign born 14 687 Negro and 13 715 native born. Native whites outnumber foreigners and Negroes yet supply less than a third of penitentiary inmates while foreign born outnumber native whites by over one percent. Of all convicts 43 443 are men and 1 791 are women with female inmates falling since 1880 from over 4.5 percent to under 4 percent.
Judge John G. Berkshire of the Supreme Court of Indiana died last Thursday at North Vernon. He contracted a severe cold two weeks earlier that developed into pneumonia, ending a tenure as the Supreme Judge from the second district. He was a self made man noted for reason and common sense.
A Free Soiler argues the 1890 GOP defeat stems from the McKinley tariff. He contends timing matters, claiming October ballots showed GOP strength, and a delay would have reduced seats. He urges unity under a democracy led by Washington and Lincoln and opposes slavery in any form.
A historical note compares Isabella of Spain pawning jewels to fund voyages with American women sacrificing much to buy Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. Itclaims the remedy cures lung liver throat and blood diseases, purifies blood, strengthens the liver, and builds health, with a money back guarantee.
The Atlantic article laments declining sale of good books and urges parents and educators to curb trashy literature. Charles Dudley Warner is cited on schools and teachers as partly responsible, arguing for longer school terms and moral courage to instill love of wholesome reading.
Seymour Riddle argues teachers must themselves love reading to instill a lasting passion in students. He advocates more supplementary books in higher grades and urges extending literature’s purifying influence beyond school years, warning about the moral cost if readers ignore it.
A vintage advertisement touts Electric Bitters as a universal cure. It claims to purify blood, cure liver and kidney diseases, acne, boils, and malaria, and relieve headache constipation and indigestion. Fully guaranteed with refunds, priced 50 cents and 1 dollar at S. Stalcup's Drugstore.
The senate approved measures including a 700000 loan and a nonpartisan city public safety board for Evansville, while defeating Magee's civil service bill. The house advanced medical practice and lien law changes, created a public works board for Evansville, funded hospital equipment, and ordered townships to publish public aid recipients. Governor Hovey vetoed a health board appointments bill. both chambers overrode the veto.
Senate approved a bill allowing incorporated cities to condemn property for streets and alleys. A concurrent measure to license pawnbrokers at ten to twenty dollars passed. Magee’s bill to discharge harmless incurables from insane hospitals was defeated. Mrs Helen Gougar urged protection of girls until 18 and prohibition of Aquor sales. municipal suffrage for women discussed. House considered fee and salary bills, varying county officer salaries by up to 80 percent. An amendment removed deputy and clerk salary references. bill engrossed.
The senate passed a 1300 aid bill for an ex treasurer lost to a bank failure. Trustees for a reform school were confirmed. A cigarette bill was indefinitely postponed. Indianapolis may issue 100000 bonds for a library and boost school taxes by five cents. Grand Army badge wearing rules were addressed. Gilman proposed White Caps damages from the injuring county. The house spent hours on the general taxation bill and approved it. Railroad tax flow to counties was rejected after debate. Supreme court reporter salary set at 4000. The fee and salary bill passed with ten dissenters.
In session Tuesday a memorial signed by hundreds of Pennsylvania railroad employees criticized the so called Kelly rail road bill affecting voluntary relief for the Pennsylvanian lines. The world’s fair bill faced cuts from 200000 to 50000 and was laid aside. The house debated road system reorganization and city run gas and electric plants provisions while the legislative apportionment bill advanced on party lines.
A major fire gutted the People's Theatre in Evansville on Monday at 5:30 am causing about 75000 dollars in losses. The adjoining Journal office and H Fritsch's tailoring shop were damaged. Origin unknown but suspected to be in a room with electrical devices. Fire department crews faced tough flames.
Superintendent Porter previews a census bulletin on mortgage indebtedness. A team of agents gathered abstracts for about 9,000,000 mortgages across U S counties over ten years, detailing debt amounts, interest rates, and motives. Early Alabama Iowa data show real estate debts, per capita debt, acreage mortgaged, and contract terms, with notable county results and proposed methods to yield accurate statistics.
In Colomats Ohio on Monday after noon W J Elliott proprietor of The Sunday Capital shot Al Osborne of The World as crowds watched the Washington birthday parade. They exchanged fire in a hat store where Osborne died instantly. A bystander Hughes was killed, Sullivan was shot in the arm, another man shot in the leg, and Patsy Elliott was slightly hurt. The Elliotts were arrested.
Fletcher and Churchman bankers filed attachments against the railway, stopping several cars in Indianapolis. Writs sent statewide to seize any of the companys cars. Banks claim 140000 debt under a contract with the defunct Indianapolis car works and cashed paper.
Greensburg Indiana February 21. H B Lucas suffered a severe accident at Potts and Johnsons rim and hub factory while operating a turning lathe. The knives flew from the machine at 250 revolutions per minute disemboweling him. He cannot forgive the injuries.
The president nominates Charles Foster of Ohio to be secretary of the treasury. Born April 25, 1828 near Tiffin, he rose from a log schoolhouse to Norwalk academy, served in Congress after 1870, earned the nickname Little Giant, and was twice governor of Ohio. The Senate confirmed Foster’s nomination on February 25.
In Halifax on February 24 a massive coal mine blast at Spring Hill, near three quarters of a mile from the slope bottom, leaves 120 dead and 54 married men, 40 single, and 25 boys injured or lost. Cause unknown. earlier reports listed 117 dead.
The funeral of Gen. Sherman was held in St. Louis with a lengthy procession to Calvary Cemetery. Rev. Thomas Sherman led the graveside service, and the remains were interred in the family plot beside Mrs. Sherman and two young children. The event matched the man in every detail with Union and Confederate groups present. In a separate note, Rep. Funston of Kansas proposed printing 100,000 illustrated copies of the Bureau of Animal Industry report on horse diseases for distribution by Congress.
California state senate passed a bill to appropriate 300000 dollars for the state's exhibit at the world’s fair. The measure, already approved by the house, awaits the governor’s signature to become law.
Quotations from Cincinnati and elsewhere for February 25 show Boston Wool and regional markets. Prices listed for various grades of wool, cotton cloths, and specific crops from Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky, Indiana, Georgia, and Missouri. Commodity sections include wheat, corn, oats, and hogs with associated prices, plus telegraph items from Hoosier towns: arrests, deaths, counterfeiting probe, a sleeping boy, a warehouse dynamite find, and population counts.
A brilliant authentic narrative promises a comprehensive cyclopedia of universal history. The work features fifteen hundred elegant narrations, thirty two historical maps in color, nine colored chronological charts, and thirty three genealogical diagrams. It is presented as the sole complete history published in fifteen years with graphic detail and scholarly arrangement.
JH Vincent and A R P Allen commend Ridpath Cyclopedia of Universal History as the ablest work on the subject. They praise its readable type, clear style, compact treatment, and superb illustrations. They note it provides an accurate philosophical resume of mankind’s great movements and will find homes in cultured libraries.
A jumble of short items notes murder and madness in Indiana towns. A legislator’s liquor license proposal surfaces amid sensational reports of arson, hydrophobia deaths, and a lynx of oddities from Marion to Terre Haute.
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