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Newspaper
Bloomfield Democrat
Location
Bloomfield, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1892
Page
2
A compact Greene County column notes local topics including a death in town, a county commissioner’s visit, and political comment. It mentions Hood's Sarsaparilla with medicinal praise, indigo about digestion, and general daily rural life anecdotes. References to local residents Aaron Comba and Nelson Anderson appear amid social commentary.
A fractured, informal city update records voting moods, church events, and small town doings. Mentions Ava and Andy, Jasper Long's status, Rev J T Hreeden preaching, a wedding of the People's and Republican parties, weather halting work, R W Yoho's surrender, nightly hammering by boys, Dick’s poor health, J T Carmichael busy with stock, Mr C’s grin, Hudson’s illness, a doctor’s scarce practice, Mant Long’s fame, J B Vanmeier and Joe Carter as blacksmiths, a Saturday institute, and a Tuesday jollification ending with a trip to Jonesborough. It notes Chamberlain’s remedy for chronic diarrhea used by veterans.
Rain swept through Sunday night as Calvertville residents gathered for services led by Brothers Chesnut and Manis. Attendees included Misses Bell Adelaide Oriboa Miss Eliza Bunting and Miss Lizzie Lang visiting Lyons. Notables Willie Jewell Mary Padgett Charley Minks Alga Buckner and Thomas Miller noted among community members with typhoid fever and travel plans. A Friendship meeting is set for the fourth Saturday and Sunday with Brother Wakins preaching.
A vintage advertisement offers a $100 reward for an incurable case of catarrh and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure sold by Toledo druggists. Endorsers West & Truax, Walding Kinnan Marvin vouch for F. J. Cheney & Co. as honorable and able to meet obligations. Testimonials are free.
The item notes Arrag for Cleveland and reform to Democracy, with commentary on the People’s party’s true nature in the county. A gentle breeze brings relief to suffocating constituents, while locals like Jon Hunter, Sherman Hash, Eckley Combe, and Marquis Baker are mentioned along with school activities and a ship of political commentary. Leftist doings and past party shifts are recalled as townsfolk move through institute travel and local names.
The section celebrates Cleve land’s election while reporting local happenings. The wife of Thomas Shake died Saturday and will be buried at Marco cemetery Sunday. The Marco band plays Sandborn Monday night as townsfolk discuss thefts of horses at night. Local health notes and trades mention a linen blacksmith shop opening and job shifts among town watchmen. A testimonial touts Salvation Oil’s neuralgia relief.
RATHER fine since the snow. F. M. Carmichael went to Monroe county Saturday to visit his parents. They have completed the Newark flouring mill and are doing first class work. Rube Lent moved to town last Friday. Corida Ritter is building a new house. Mr. Frame met with a painful accident Sunday, his horse fell down with him breaking one of his fingers. James Crawford of Spencer was here over Sunday shaking hands with the boys. Ollie Pryor has been sick but is better. A young Mr. Arthur is here from Kansas visiting his brother Alford. George Pugh was in town Saturday evening all smiles and sun-grins.
Denver readers report Ely's Cream Balm cures dry catarrh aggravated by alkaline dust and dry winds. Testimonials praise the remedy’s effectiveness from several Denver pharmacists and a Denver druggist.
Citizens flocked to the county seat Saturday to celebrate a major political win described as a landslide. The note mentions strong health, new houses, and school progress, with locals prognosticating Grover's majority and plans to ship fat hogs to Indianapolis.
Advertised remedy Electric Bitters is touted as a pure medicine that cures liver and kidney diseases removes pimples and skin afflictions purges malaria and fevers and treats headache constipation and indigestion. Offered by Stalcup's Drugstore at 50 cents and 1.00 per bottle with satisfaction guaranteed or money back.
Election passed off quietly on a propitious day for invalids to be helped. Wm Freeman says he has not tasted food since the election and hunted a rabbit in despair. Solomon Raimbolt, a Lawrence County farmer, visited Saturday. Armetead Flynn of Clifty broke a horse saddle on the way here. no bones broken but mud covered him. Isaac Foddrill remains rheumatic and bedridden. Uncle Charley Foddrill visited T Bogard Sunday and walks with youthful vigor.
Ed Freeman moves to Smithville and George Isenhower will occupy his vacated residence. Preaching in the M. E. church Saturday night and Sunday by Rev. Hlarry. Teachers institute Saturday was well attended and instructive. Thanks to Cincinnati for hospitality. Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption and coughs guaranteed relief or money back. Sample bottle at S Starcup’s Drug store. Large size 50c and 1.00.
Local notes recount visitors and marriages in Greene county with references to Mrs. Hoch, John Herr, Miss Rosa Flory, and Miss Arris Neidigh. Political chatter praises Democrats, mentions upcoming travel to Washington, and notes a scarlet fever concern. An anecdotal testimonial for Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy ends the column.
The text promotes a salve for skin ailments and piles with a money back guarantee and 25 cent price. It lists petit jurors for the November court term across multiple townships and mentions a druggist, a hog and chicken cholera remedy, and regional travel notices with Evansville routes and train connections to Nashville and southern cities.
A searing critique contends Republicans used a deception to pull Third Party Democrats from the ticket. It claims coordinated suppression and misinformation, detailing precinct losses and a dramatic shift in Greene County’s 1892 results. Also notes a Salt River steamer voyage mocking Republican finances and leadership.
A string of brief hometown notices lists residents and in town visitors from Lovell Anderson to Owensburg, Worthington to Switz City. Several Democrats and Republicans are named among those visiting, with remarks on moves, jobs, and a few light notes about election returns.
William Withers Jr the quiet orchestra leader at the California theater recalls the night Lincoln was slain at Ford s theater He describes a moth torn coat with two sword slits allegedly made by Wilkes Booth and recounts his arrest escape and close call moments in a vivid first person account tied to the nation s tragedy.
A schoolmaster eager about politics begins teaching the subject, and after initial rough sailing, pupils grasp the topic. In a lecture he asks Johnnie to choose between a republic or the current government, and Johnnie prefers the present system because a republic would deny holidays on the Queen's birthday.
The Trinity chime, among the oldest in the country after Christ Church Philadelphia, began with five bells likely cast in London. A 1788 English bell joined during the second church’s 1788 erection, and by 1849 there were ten bells after recasting one and adding four Troy bells. The largest weighs 3805 pounds, the smallest 750, totaling about 15000 pounds, hung in a heavy frame that muffles full sound in the street. ringing method deemed primitive even before Grace church improvements.
In Pope Julian’s era about 1512 to 1514 a Jewish syndicate aimed to take the Vatican’s Hebrew Bible from Catholic control. They made several offers, finally proposing to pay its weight in gold, a 325 pound volume valued as about 125000 dollars in US currency.
A discussion at the congress of orientalists in London revisits who fathered the pharaohs daughter who saved Moses. Critics cite Ther mes Amenhotep and Rameses as possibilities, with Rev Professor Heckler reviving the controversy.
A farmer and his wife sat at their kitchen table during a storm when lightning struck the chimney and whirled the table without injuring them. The bolt melted a stove leg, killed the cat on the floor, and exited via a nail into a well.
The article catalogs eccentric dress fabrics once sold by dressmakers during the Louis XV reign. It lists colors with fanciful names such as sad friend's color and doe's belly, alongside others like rat color and dying monkey, reflecting period satire from the St. Louis Globe Democrat.
An Indianapolis Journal excerpt shows a man expressing that Ethel is too young to marry, preferring she wait until she is of discretion. He adds that once she matures she would likely marry someone else. The dialogue reflects social expectations on timing of marriages in that era.
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