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Newspaper
Bloomfield Democrat
Location
Bloomfield, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1891
Page
3
A damaged anachronistic notice proclaims the Bloomeless Penocrate newspaper in Bloomfield Indiana. It urges advertisers to contact the Demerkat and requests business letters be addressed to the publication. Subscription price is $1.50 per year. Entered as second class matter.
An earnest booster column urges Bloomfield farmers to back a local canning factory and celery cultivation on black lands. It highlights higher returns from corn, broom corn, peas, tomatoes, and pasture, plus dairy and creamery potential. The piece notes improving school book bids and urges teachers to study recommended texts for better schools. It argues state education funding and county offices cost modestly, and calls for local farmer organization to create markets and reduce hard times.
A fragmented notice discusses a creamery plan in Beth area with funding of 210,000 and potential delays. It mentions a Sivooasty office and a proposed twenty cent per unit charge during the year to cover costs.
A local correspondent voices party disputes over the county superintendent race and Democratic responses to the Linton Call. He criticizes fee and salary legislation and warns of political pressure from county trustees, urging restraint and caution among readers.
Greene County official answers six questions raised by the F M B A at Switz City assembly. He confirms rail pass use for travel, opposes certain fee and salary measures, supports Republican platform, endorses ditch and apportionment laws, and critiques districting fairness and partisan representation.
A Confederate era style account notes speakers discussing districting, local option bills, and county superintendents. It describes proposed reforms for interest rates, boiler safety, and indebtedness funding, with party balance and committee obstacles shaping outcomes.
A collage of 19th century vignettes recounts Albert G Patrick a former printer who used a masons sign to avert a court martial in Kansas in 1856. Other tales describe a haunted ranch near Me Cloud and Confederate prisoners on a parole journey to Johnsons Island with curious northern ladies.
Promoters promote a Monon Route excursion to a Grand Land Sale near Middlesboro Kentucky and Cumberland Gap Park. The prospectus touts pleasant climate mountain life mineral springs and home comforts for pleasure seekers and capitalists. Tickets and information available from Monon Route agents in Chicago.
The seventieth annual meeting of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Indiana begins at the Masonic temple in Indianapolis on Tuesday May 26 1861. Delegates from lodges statewide will attend with railroads offering reduced rates.
A compact history of London street illumination from candles and lanterns in 1661 to lanterns under Edward Hening in the late 17th century and later gaslight and electricity. It notes the phased duties of households, actuarial charges, and a colonial- era view of street lighting contrasted with modern shifts to gas and electric light.
A British boundary mishap near Blaine and eastward shifts the line 360 yards north of the forty-ninth parallel. U.S. Navy Ensign Moule and assistant Gilbert reported the discrepancy after platting charts for Washington. The fixed iron monuments and river-lake markers define the line, preventing a territorial reversal despite the erroneous measurements.
Timmons and Hendren advertise as real estate and loan agents with the most complete set of abstract books in southern Indiana. They offer farms for sale and exchange and many negotiated farms on short notice.
10 acres near court house in this city all in grass good water priced 750 257 acres smooth river bottom cultivated rent 5 per acre long time 120 acres Highland township 8 miles NE of Bloomfield nearly all cultivated black sand soil large orchard house barn on public highway price 1200 will sell or trade 9 8 93 acres near Bloomfield mostly river bottom cultivated good frame house barn 4 miles from gravel road price 30 per acre 200 acres cultivation large frame house barn orchard timber water well and on public highway owner old wants to sell 10 120 acres level land 2 miles from railroad town ditch this summer 5 acres high land building place public highway best soil 525 1295 acres rich black land improved cultivated well ditched tiled 5 acres growing wheat balance corn no better land in Greene county bargain 3 37 acres 13 miles west of Worthington Terre Haute road box house orchard timber coal price 600 good time 4 160 acres good frame house barn 40 acres fine poplar 1000 value large orchard well outbuildings fences land neighborhood 15 House eight lots Cavine addition box house stable fruit trees visit stop rent 16 corner lot public square business house residence sale cheap or rent 17 184 acres near Plummer upland cultivated 6 acres clover sandy loam water melon land good barn 16x24 spring water 400 1880 acres Stafford township 50 cleared 25 grass young bearie orchard water fine stock and grass farm every acre tillable good log house 1150 We have more farms and buyers daily come and sell yours
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