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Newspaper
Bluffton Banner
Location
Bluffton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1894
Page
7
Miscellaneous items from Wells County featuring local people, visiting relatives, and community notices. Notes include Elija P. Houk’s bicycle trip to Huntington, Castoria ads, weather quips, church visits, a funeral, bicycle riding behavior, a wheat crop estimate for Indiana, a money loan offer, and a warning about traveling dry goods salesmen who take notes rather than cash.
A careful tally estimates the four part railway walkout cost about 13.6 million dollars in direct losses to railroads workers and government, with tens of thousands laid off and pervasive disruption from Chicago to the south. The tally includes railroad freight delays, property destruction, wage losses among workers, and military costs. It notes widespread effects on allied industries and the broader economy.
Teeth extracted without pain by Dr L W Dailey using a harmless preparation with no gas. Consultation free. Office over War ing's jewelry store. 30 t 2m.
Officials at the Post Office Depart ment weigh new stamp values for regular, newspaper, and periodical series. The plan keeps certain small denominations, adds fifty cent and one to five dollar stamps, and drops many others including thirty and ninety cent ordinary stamps. A dollar stamp is likely to be adopted. new issues include five twenty five and fifty cent and one two five and fifty and one hundred dollar values. Postage due stamps are reengraved and scaled down.
Notice to farmers highlights annual harvest yields and promotes a comprehensive 15 year farm accounting and weather record book by J H Hourz Pus Co. Readers are urged to buy through local agents as a lasting investment for farm business details.
Edwin and Angelina remark on the fine day as Pall Mall Budget notes the mood of public leisure. The line captures a light social moment about enjoying good weather.
An amusing fragment from the Buffalo Express notes a couple traveling toward Buffalo on a Falls train passing Tonawanda’s old cemetery. The woman comments on the ancient grounds and the train boy has a fit, the moment captured in a wry rural-railroad tone.
In Pearson's Weekly an observer notes a bidder asks for the artwork price while the artist quips that payment for work is not tied to the artist's lifespan. The expected price cited is £1000.
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