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Newspaper
Bluffton Banner
Location
Bluffton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1903
Page
3
The text reports a widespread illness in Bluffton with many victims and mild cases. Doctors are busy throughout the day, treating numerous patients, while some residents self medicate hoping relief will come. The disease strains physicians who work long hours and often lack rest.
The Cotton Belt Route advertises first and third Tuesdays selling one way and round trip tickets at half rate plus 82 to Missouri Arkansas Louisiana and Texas with 21 day return limit, aiming to draw immigrants to the great southwest. It touts soil fertility low land prices mild winters long growing seasons and multiple crops plus free literature about the region. William Lee of Jackson township is noted as attending a city meeting on Tuesday.
Joke Johnson returned from Jeffersonville seeking a wall guard post but was rejected after the prison management learned he had spent time with some guards and ex guards. Officials cited lingering discontent among staff and loyalty concerns as the reason for his exclusion.
A Fort Wayne man visiting Hartford City played high stakes gambling at an east side resort. The dealer and bets reached 150 dollars per hand, yielding a house win of 3100 dollars, the season's largest payout in Hartford City. The visitor plans a return with more money, promising further excitement.
The Petroleum Gazette recounts an Indiana farmer who refused lawyers in a land lease. He pledged one dollar per acre per year while oil flowed, yet the leasers profited little beyond two hundred dollars annually. A school spelling challenge between Toll Gate and Buttermilk Cut is planned, drawing broad local interest and memories of past contests.
A teacher asked pupils to use dogma in a sentence. A pupil wrote Our dogma has three pups. A reader asked the postage stamp language and was told Anywhere but right side up in the upper right hand corner means I am a dam fool. A lady misused ferment as to mean to work and exclaimed I have been fermenting in the yard all day, to guests who laughed loudly.
Mrs M D Brown of 208 Oak St testifies to lasting back pain relief after trying Dean's Kidney Pills. She credits the treatment from Chas G Deans drug store and urges others in Bluffton to seek Doan's for kidney trouble. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sole agents for the U S. Price fifty cents.
The Rock Creek township child Mina Dessie Smeltzer born June 5 1801 died last Thursday evening after illness from an abscess and pneumonia. Friends note her faithful Sunday School membership and the family shares verses of mourning. Also updates: Noah Masure with a foot injury, Isaac Roush visiting town for business, returning to Mt Zion.
The Indianapolis News laments colored supplements in sensational papers and the shift toward funny Noah’s ark depictions. Frank Robison, owner of John W., says the trotting horse is ready for trials and claims John W is the county’s best trotter. Kilmer's swan mead?
A Ridgeville note recounts a $5 dance permit tax with strict midnight rules and potential penalties. The item also covers a series of local tales including a cow's appetite, a lawsuit, a poet seeking pay for 236 stanzas, a musician’s new horn, ice quality, a widow's pension, a German man jailed for intoxication, a well project, and a church funeral with tributes to Imma Schlangenhaus.
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