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Newspaper
Bloomfield Democrat
Location
Bloomfield, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1890
Page
3
Advertisers claim a broad range of low priced garments, domestic and imported, available in vast quantities. The notice invites customers to purchase, highlighting affordability and variety across styles.
L.S. Ayers & Co promote Dead Shot for hog and chicken cholera. Shields & Burcham offer millinery bargains. Zwillinger advertises suits and wedding outfits. Coen's cash grocery lists mackerel and beans. W. Axtell notes new portico. Simmon’s Liver Regulator advertised for bile, colic, fever. Bloomfield notices for loans, dental or medical reminders, and garden prep tips.
Local items announce Phillipa & Barney's Uncle Tom's Cabin Show at the Opera House on Wednesday December 3 1890 and a noon street parade. Other notes mention new signs routines house moves road changes and a broad range of advertisements including groceries and remedies.
The New Williams House in Worthington now operates as a brick two story hotel. The first floor features a 50 by 40 office, 22 by 65 dining room, 70 by 25 reading room, a wash room and a coat room. The second story offers 15 sleeping rooms and a 22 by 24 parlor. All rooms are carpeted with new furniture and marbleized fireplaces.
A promotional notice describes a painless childbirth promise and remedies for morning sickness and pregnancy discomfort endorsing medical backing. It requests two cent stamps for circulars and sealed letters from Frank Thomas & Co, Baltimore. It also covers a Greene County temperance meeting with talks by Miss Mollie G. Hay and Alice Palmer on Sabbath observance and women's advancement. The State Temperance Union seeks funds via a November 30 collection in Sunday schools.
The term court docket lists divorce petitions including Maisia Anne Padzett from Joan Padgett Bevus Michaels Grant Michaels Edward Eddle Nancy Biddle Emer Parkins Mary Perkins Elvira J Hastings W J Hastings Mars Jo Miller Wm EO Miller Dulin Wess ay Kate Westril Fills Shegher from Wm Shepherd and others.
An administrator of the estate filed in the Circuit Court of Greene County Indiana a petition to sell certain real estate to raise assets for debts. The hearing is set for February term, at the Bloomfield court house, with the notice dated November 18, in Franklin Ramsey Clerk. Also, a separate classified item seeks local and traveling positions with salary from experience.
Fragmentary OCR text lists stations and surnames like Newberry Slinkard Washington Evansville Betxa and Worthington with scattered numbers and initials. Reading shows a historical locality note with names attached to places and possible ages but no coherent event.
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