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Newspaper
Bloomfield Democrat
Location
Bloomfield, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1891
Page
3
Bloomsfield items include pay day on the Lyons and Bloomfield road, real estate ads for cheap land and farms, a wind mill sale, and various town notices. References mention Dan McGinty's Troubles, local courts, postmaster recommendations, and regional business changes with multiple named residents and firms.
In Minneapolis the Bijou presented McGintys Troubles with a whirl of fun and excitement. Spectators filled with enthusiasm witnessed fresh music features and dances provoking roaring, house wide laughter from curtain up to close.
Last Monday Mr Kelly introduced a bill to ban poisonous ingredients in baking powders sold in New York. The act requires any can or package containing ammonia to bear a conspicuous label "Contains Ammonia" in plain type and sets July 1 1891 as the effective date.
Newberry residents and visitors populate the town with subscriptions and calls on subscribers. Notables include M F McIntosh Newark C B Harsgood Lyons and David Cox Newark paying up. Local officials and prominent figures John S Hill Jah Dyer and R W Yoho visit on Monday.
Postponed entertainment by Lula Robinson in Lyons for Dead Shot hog and chick cholera show scheduled tomorrow night. Public notice of sale of 120 acres on I V R R station farm near Marco with 100 acres cultivated and diverse fruit trees. sale includes livestock, implements, furniture with cash and eight month credit terms. Sale starts 10 o'clock on Tuesday November 10 1891 by John T. Manse.
Reports suggest the body of Mrs Clara Wagoner was found in a Newark cistern and buried without inquest after initial belief of accidental fall. Now authorities consider foul play and plan exhumation and scientific tests to determine if opiates caused death amid suspicion on a relative.
On Sunday October 18 friends and relatives celebrated John Huffman's 84th birthday with a home dinner two miles east of Island City. About six guests attended after he arrived mid day to surprise him. B W McClung presented gifts and the group departed after well wishes for future birthdays. Comrade Morgan notes recollections of a prior charade by a man posing as a soldier from the 10th Ohio. The impostor, also tied to thefts and fires, later appeared in Bloomfield as Comrade Hudson, drunk and jailed. The marshal pursued him as he fled town after dropping ball and chain at work.
A dubious health warning urges avoiding blood poisons through liver and blood impurity problems. It promotes Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a guaranteed cure or money back, claiming it cleanses blood and cures various skin and toxin symptoms.
Indications point to danger from White Caps in Monroe County as grand jury examines the night Linther Jones was beaten and left near death. Neighbors and suspects from the same circle are set to be questioned while a prior Bingham Creek case looms in memory.
Wheat prices quoted 40 44c for new and 58 60c old. Unwashed wool fine merino 17 18c, blood clothing 21 22c, braid 17 18c, medium combing 22 28c, fleeces washed fine merino 2 1 2% 2c, medium clothing 27 28c. Cattle good to choice butchers 3.75 to 4.15 dollars. fair to good 2.75 to 3.65. shipping 4.20 to 4.35. common to rough 3.85 to 4.00. Pigs 3.25. Sheep 2.25 to 2.50. Lambs 3.50 to 5.00.
A dense listing of goods and market quotes across Ohio Michigan Pennsylvania and Kentucky with grain, poultry, beef and dairy values. Includes wheat corn oats cattle hogs sheep lambs and prices from Pittsburgh New York Chicago and Boston markets with varying quality notes and months.
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