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Newspaper
Bluffton Banner
Location
Bluffton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1894
Page
2
Community items from Tocsia and nearby towns describe weather, illnesses, social events, church activities, and local business. Mentions of sickness including typhoid fever and Andrea Ashcroft, plus a sheriff report and militiary calls. Local commerce includes threshing, plastering, and a carload wheat sale at Decatur.
Local notes report minor sickness, Dr Huffman visiting Sunday, Sarah Venus visiting Decatur, Richey foundation laid, rain-needed for corn crop, B P John night walker on Clover Leaf railroad, Hower family visiting Ohio, inquiry about a blacksmith, Lem Shaffer among threshing crew with Dave Croms, Mrs Shaffer at grandchild’s bedside in Bluffton, Ezra Beach and wife of Bluffton mentioned.
The column notes births and illnesses among local families. Frank Randall welcomes a baby boy, while Will Hetrick celebrates a baby girl. Miss Mary Jones is seriously ill with typhoid, and Mrs Jennie Wisner and son Alfred are listed as sick.
A collage of short reports from the Kreps region includes T. Kizer taking possession of a store, John Kreps moving to the Isenhart property, and Frank Biberstine caring for fast horses in Ft Wayne. Other items mention visits, farming work, a poisoned horse incident, barn work by Edgates, and a recently completed oil derrick on Mr. French’s farm.
The Barnum and Bailey Greatest Show on Earth comes to Fort Wayne on August 3 with low rail rates. The article extols the show as the world’s greatest circus featuring champions in equestrian, aerial, and athletic acts, two giant gorillas, a vast Ethnological Congress, and a moral, instructive program, framed as a universal spectacle.
West Jackson reports Alexander Hosier and wife have a boy. Wheat yields 20 to 30 bushels per acre. Gertrude Neff of Warren visited Cena Jackson. Miss Ella Cole aided a Huntington photographer and has returned home. Mrs. Ross Allen’s condition is hopeless. she can barely whisper. Robert Stanton and John Jackson welcome a baby girl. Thresher hums as several farmers finish threshing. Preaching next Saturday at Wileys. Mr. Stanton and Mr. Redding will fill Rev. Jones' appointment. A thief took eggs meat rice from Wm. Poulouse’s summer kitchen. young chickens stolen. West Guard completed a 74‑foot well on Silas Pulse farm with ample water. Essie Hosier, now in Warren, is back home very ill. three doctors attended.
Fragmentary lines speak of special trains and excursion rates with depot details. A quizzical line shows Good health's coat of arms displaying a mop. The ending quip about meat in words hints at a drinking or speaking proverb.
Edward T. Noonan appears to have used what is called the sympathy racket to gain support in the 5th district, according to the article.
A customer praises Dr King’s New Discovery as the best cough remedy used in eight years. Recounts family success and reliability, noting the product in stock at Charles C. Dean’s drug store with trial bottles available.
The notice promotes a cough and lung remedy claimed to cure bronchitis asthma consumption whooping cough and croup. It asserts the medicine has cured thousands after others failed and lists J E Sturgis at 231a as the seller. It ends with a caution that the difficulty is recognizing a bad product.
Specimen Cases from New Cassel and nearby towns report relief after using Electric Bitters. Mount Difford suffered stomach and liver issues yet recovered after three bottles. Edward Shepherd treated eight year leg sore with three bottles and seven Arnica Salve boxes. John Speaker cured after one bottle Bitters and one Arnica Salve. Sold by Charles G. Duan.
An advertisement for Nevis English Stable Liniment claims to remove lumps, galls, scratches, cuts, bruises, sprains and deformities. It touts a nineteenth century discovery by an English veterinary surgeon and lists price 50 cents and 200 dollars, sold by J. E. Sturgis.
An old advertisement promotes Drummond Medicine Co claim that rheumatism results from liver and kidney failure and offers two large bottles for five dollars sent to any address. The copy promises quick relief and seeks regional sales agents. The address listed is 48 Maiden Lane New York.
An old newspaper fragment markets Bucklen’s Arnica Salve as a universal remedy for bruises sores ulcers salt rheum fever sores tetter chapping and more with a money back guarantee. It also promotes Hood’s Sarsaparilla claiming it cures blood impurities that cause many diseases including scrofula rheumatism dyspepsia and catarrh. The ad notes price nine cents per box and lists Charles Deam as seller.
Harris and Buquo of Erin Tennessee promote Drummond's Lightning Remedy claiming a cooper recovered from rheumatism after two bottles and returned to work producing forty barrels daily. The ad offers two large bottles for five dollars and seeks agents. Also a brief joke line about a woman preferring warmth when cool.
An advertisement claims the distemper and cough cure protects horses sheep and dogs under all conditions. It promises one dose prevents one bottle cures in three to six days and offers a Treatise plus breeder testimonials. Wells Medicine Co. LaFayette Tadiaga 2313m.
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