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Newspaper
Bloomfield Democrat
Location
Bloomfield, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1893
Page
1
Local readers receive brief items from county towns and visitors. Mentions include Miss Lizzie Long visiting Calvert Glidden Vincennes, Lemon Wiles at Worthington, Joe Catinietmel and others visiting, church attendance, and trips to Terre Haute Indian edge and Cincinnati with family news and small-town movements.
An old advertisement touts salve for cuts, sores, eruptions, salt rheum, fever sores, and piles with a money back guarantee. It lists price as 25 cents per box and mentions sale in S. Stateup. The item is followed by a death notice for Mrs. Henry Jackson of Robinson, burial at Pleasant Ridge, and a local note about Jim Corbin returning home. The column also references a rumor about widening a Narrow Gauge tunnel and promotes a tonic claimed to restore health.
Auction style real estate notice lists farms and houses for sale near Worth, Lyons, Owensbury, and Wastrugta. Includes orchards, wells, log houses, fences, woodlots, and several tracts with payments options. Prospective buyers urged to call for details and placement on listings.
A messy collection of dates names places and activities from everyday life. Mentions residents like Esley Kilping er and Petry Miter plus towns Worhington Jesup and Tilcomfield. Includes a sales pitch for Hood's Sarsaparilla and several brief notices about churchyard decor and local visits.
The itemized blurbs note Grand ma Long in poor health, popcorn boys on the streets, Uncle Gus Ferguson plans a logo robe and June corn planting, J M Meridith seeking work nearby, a Bucher visiting his daughter Mrs Will Carmichael in Martin county, a funeral for Mrs Ethel Russ to be preached at Hethel, and Mark Davenport with Homer Foddril plus Tom Wilkon at Bedford work, all in a rural community.
A mixed page reports local life from a county town: grazing notes on deaths, health ads for bitters and tonics, church sermons, world’s fair plans, and farm updates. It mentions court cases, property judgments, and a long stream of names tied to community events and misfortunes.
The notice extols a cure for catarrh claiming it cures the disease in all stages. It asserts internal intake affects blood and mucous surfaces and offers a $100 refund if it fails, with testimonials available from F J Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio.
Dr T A Bland outlines a body politic metaphor where money equals blood, arguing a large money supply sustains trade and labor. He endorses a national banking system with public credit, suggesting government backed paper money and bonds as security, and cites Greenback advocates and Professor Thompson as supporting reforms.
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