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Newspaper
Bloomfield Democrat
Location
Bloomfield, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1888
Page
3
The page blends merchant ads with local news from Bloomfield Indiana. It touts low prices, household goods, dresses and envelopes, plus notices on divorces pensions and church events. Read highlights include local sales, a strawberry festival, a July Fourth plan, horse incident, and staffing changes in nearby towns.
Notice of a mare matching a description found in Greene county. The animal is white spotted on hind feet with a white spot on the furhuvad, stands 14 hands high and is an ordinary pony. Locate owner Abe Voyles of Clear Creek Monroe county Indiana and notify.
On Thursday pensions were granted to 35 Indianians. The war ended twenty three years ago. A democratic administration is executing the laws and doing all work pretty well in pensions despite opposition from partisan critics.
A local notice offers over $1000 in bad subscription and other accounts for sale to buyers. The advertiser plans to publish a list of names post offices and amounts in the near future and invites inquiries at their office for purchasers.
The note catalogs Bible metrics such as total letters 3 556 840 and words 773 746. It lists counts for verses 31 173 chapters 1 188 and books 66, plus occurrences of and Lord. It cites odd facts like Ezra 7 21 containing all letters except j and key verse lengths.
Our terms require cash in advance and all subscriptions end when paid time expires. Due to crop failures and scarce money, we will extend those responsible until the next tax time but no longer. Those whose time ends or who want to continue must contact this office to note payment by the stated time or the paper will stop immediately next week.
Businesses advertise cheap raisins apricots and canned goods at Pringle Williams Bloomfield Grocery Cash Grocery and Hert Graham. Coen promotes cash for produce and a Worthington tour while Bloomfield adds tobacco and porcelain wares. Pain relief Dead Shot is pitched with a paint ad touting Coit Co. paints promising no water or benzine and long wear.
The E and TL R will sell round trip tickets to Cincinnati for the Supreme Lodge Knights of Pythias meeting June 16 to 18. Tickets valid through June 18 with a special excursion on June 12 at a reduced rate. For details contact the ticket agent or the undersigned G J Grasan TM.
The BL and EF ROW announce sale of raw ad trip tickets to Chicago for June 16 and 18 on account of the Republican National Convention at one fare. Return by January 23 inclusive. For more information contact the ticket agent at your station. G. J. Graman to W.
The piece laments Civil War memories and Propels Memorial Day as a national ritual of honoring fallen soldiers. It notes two decades since Appomattox, recalls General Logan, and extols flowers laid on graves as prayers answered while urging unity beyond past enmities.
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