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Newspaper
Bluffton Banner
Location
Bluffton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1903
Page
12
A disjointed 1920s style classified fragment lists assorted items for sale including wheelbarrow, fancy baskets, white statuary, chinaware, hard glazed garden items, underglazed cuspiders, whisk brooms, toy sweepers, blackboards, brooms, granite work, box paper and assorted low prices. The OCR presents scattered prices and product names with no clearly connected seller.
A Ossian resident complains that the town’s gas meters fail to regulate heating in cold weather. He notes meters run too many hours when needed and fail when warmth is present, leaving residents frustrated with the device’s unreliability.
The marriage took place December tenth at the Friends parsonage in Marion, uniting Isaac Lash of Wells county and Mrs. Jenny Boone of Marion. The couple and their son Paul will return to Wells county to set up housekeeping and will be at home to friends after December fifteenth.
Rev. Joseph E. Vance decried John D. Rockefeller and J. Pierpont Morgan as symbols of Chicago’s crime era. He argued the financiers’ wealth stems from illegal means and that money power influences laws, equating their methods to street hold ups and calling them highway robbers. The sermon blamed entrenched corruption, political pull, and undervaluing people for the era’s crime level.
Mr. J. W. Smith of Juli Texas reports a severe bilious attack that felt like his head would burst until a free sample of Chamberlains Stomach and Liver Tablets was taken after supper. He felt improved the next day and has remained happy since. The tablets aid biliousness stomach troubles and constipation. Priced at 25 cents and sold by Davenport & Hite.
A narrator recounts courting a telegraph girl with chestnut hair and brown eyes through a series of telegrams. Despite government stamps and rising fees, her calm businesslike manner endures as romance blooms amid shy exchanges, roses, and a storage charge on flowers. The tale blends humor, stubbornness, and affection.
In a fort at what is now Arizona, Sergeant Winter guards against a suspected Indian attack. A familiar bear Uneas appears, the sentinel is killed, and Winter faces a dire choice. He shoots the bear in disguise, dusts off the corpse of an Indian, and the garrison survives until relief as Winter earns a commission.
Betty and Jerrold Neil quarrel beneath a plum tree and part in anger. He later retrieves a ladder, finds Betty in the branches, and they reunite in a tender, joking exchange before a second chance talk on the stump of the tree. The scene blends clashing pride with rekindled affection.
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