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Newspaper
Bluffton Banner
Location
Bluffton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1894
Page
2
Rome Vardaman visited Montpelier and several locals were sighted in town including C D Carr from Decatur and Steve Todd from Hartford City. The piece lists church sermons, social visits, a funeral, fishing trips, and community plans such as a new church and housing developments. Local members are urged to support physicians and new residents.
Mr. Neuenschwander's house will be finished this week. Warren Christ traveled to Decatur on business. Wes Venis injured his foot last week by a hand car accident. Rev. Payne preached at Oakland last Sunday afternoon. Mrs Anna Beach of Bluffton is visiting here. Carpenters will begin work on the church next Monday. Mart Monroe Shady was in Craigville Friday on business.
Weather warm and health good with roads in good condition. Farmers plan large corn acreage and sixteen acres already watered. Frank Beery aims to plant twenty acres while Crum Bros finish a house for Mr Hindman. Oney Stout Enberry injured by a fall from an apple tree. Franks Crum and son active in town business.
West Jackson reports farmers ploughing and corn planting underway with several residents like Jacob Jackson and John Cloud active in fields. Social visits, Sunday meetings, and a few road and fence improvements are noted along with travel notices for rail excursions and a Dunkard conference ticket sale.
The North-Western Line offers low rate home-seeker excursions to the west and northwest. Tickets go on sale May 8 and 29 for travel to Iowa Minnesota North Dakota South Dakota Manitoba Nebraska Colorado Wyoming Utah Montana and Idaho with return within thirty days. Stopovers permitted on the outbound leg and circulars with rates are mailed free by W A Thrall Chicago office.
A 25 cent package Simmons Liver Regulator powder is advertised as an easy remedy to take either dry on the tongue or brewed as a tea. The ad claims pleasant taste and quick relief, contrasting with a casual line about a bigot reading his Bible backward.
Canajoharie resident D. W. Fuller praises Dr. King’s New Discovery for coughs and invites trials. Catskill druggist G. A. Dykeman calls it best, used eight years with reliable results. Free trial bottles at Charles C. Deam’s. regular sizes 50 cents and one dollar. Also notes on pealey rise pills and Mystic Cure for rheumatism sold by L. J. Karns. One Minute Cough Cure promises instant relief with every dose from C. C. Deam.
A reflection on spring as giood for body and mind, urging harmony of the physical system with nature. Hood's Sarsaparilla is praised as a spring medicine aiding liver and nerves, with claims of widespread benefit to health and business quiet. 1514 Wall street gamblers wear lambs wool garments.
Specimen cases from New Cassel Wisconsin Harrisburg Indiana and Catawba Ohio show neuralgia rheumatism stomach disorders and severe leg sores improving after treatment with Electric Bitters and Bucklen's Arnica Salve. One man cured after three bottles others after one bottle and seven salve boxes. Sold by Charles C Deam. The slander remark bottoms the piece.
An advertisement claims Morris English Stable Powder prevents horse colic and stomach congestion with regular use, boosts cow milk and cream by one third, and keeps livestock healthy. It sells for 25 cents through J. E. Sturgis at 13110.
An advertisement promotes Warner’s Heart Corrector and De Witt’s Witch Hazel Salve for cleansing purifying and healing. It claims uses for burns cuts bruises chapped hands sores and even piles. C. C. Dean signs the notice.
A cautious gambler learns a straight flush dream rarely pays off and patience may not beat luck. The piece muses on high-risk play versus steady profit.
The beat salve in the world for cuts bruises sores ulcers and skin eruptions cures piles guaranteed satisfaction or money refunded Price 25 cents per box For sale by Charles C Deam Some of the meanest blacklegs on earth never play cards
A Wisconsin letter reports four children with measles and severe coughs being cured after using a White Wine of Tar Syrup. The writer notes rapid improvement in three days and that nearly a full bottle was not used. The product is sold by J. E. Sturgis in Garden Valley.
A safe preventive and positive cure for distemper coughs and related ailments in horses sheep and dogs. It has withstood frequent use nationwide and will do as claimed. Price 50 cts and 1.00. Pamphlet on Distemper-free available from J. E. Sturgis 13110. The head that holds the least is the soonest to slop over.
Merciful to his horse and essential for every horse owner this liniment offers a safe speedy cure for barbed wire injuries including cuts galls scratches sore shoulders and back. Priced 50 cents and one dollar sold by J. E. Sturgis at 13110 Good pay does not advertise for poor mechanics.
A Roberts Indiana reader buys and praises Dr. Wells New Cough Cure calling it best seller and most satisfactory. The ad notes the price is 25 cents and that J. E. Sturgis sells it.
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