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Newspaper
Bloomfield Democrat
Location
Bloomfield, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1891
Page
7
The Snow Flake brand unbleached flannel is placed on sale with 20 cases and special prices. Also offered are 33 dozen gents fancy border hem stitched handkerchiefs, purses and satchels, small wares at deep discounts, ladies handkerchiefs and printed handkerchiefs, silk ribbons at reduced prices. Many items highlight bargain prices for Monday.
A dense pin of Bloomfield and nearby towns reports include a fifty thousand dollar fire at Paoli, road work and graveling in progress, new hires at local hotels, licensing, and a run of local notices from Moss & Axcell to Sykes & Gray. Also mentions burglaries, court actions, and entertainment notes including McGintys Troubles in nearby cities.
The assembly passes a bill to require conspicuous labeling on baking powders containing ammonia or other injurious ingredients. The act, backed by the legislature, sets July 1 1891 as the effective date and makes sale of unlabeled ammoniated powder a misdemeanor.
Postponed entertainment ad for Lula Robinson in Lyons rescheduled for tomorrow night. Real estate and farm listings offer 120 acres with drainage and fruit trees, 100 bearing, 500 apple trees, 30 peach trees, 15 cherry trees, 15 pear, 2 wood wells, 30 acres meadow, corn yield 70 bushels per acre, price 59 per acre. Public sale details include one million sweet of Marco, goods, livestock, and household items with cash and eight month credit terms. Also reports on a Newark murder inquiry into Mrs. Clara Wagoner and a surprise birthday dinner for John Huffman near Island City. Market notes from Cincinnati, Boston, Pittsburgh, Chicago, and New York cover wheat, corn, wool, cattle, sheep, hogs, and lumber prices and ranges.
Boomington Indiana October 21. The Monroe county White Caps may face trouble as the grand jury investigates a brutal beating of Luther Jones who remains between life and death. Jones testified for two days while others in the nearby community are questioned about the night of the assault. The Bingham case of prior White Cap outrages, where three men were sent to the penitentiary, is cited as precedent.
A comparison shows Dr Price's Cream Baking Powder in larger, fuller cans than rivals. The ad urges grocers to place a one pound can of Dr Price's beside other brands to reveal differences in density and content. It warns against ammonia or alum powders as unsafe and praises Dr Price's as pure and wholesome.
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