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Newspaper
Bluffton Banner
Location
Bluffton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1894
Page
2
Local notices from Tocsin discuss merchants, trade, and new business. items note Jesse Dailey on baseball, A P Kelly buying a horse, George Steel starting in retail, and community visits. Several obituaries are listed, and farming, roads, schooling, and local events are mentioned alongside road supervisor comments and a schoolhouse schedule.
A fragmentary column notes: John Miller moves into a new house today. singing at D W Abbott's last Tuesday. Grant Hank of Ft Wayne visited. farmers nearly finished planting corn with debates over replant timing. Amos Hetrick says late to plant but not to replant. local residents and names like Mert Myrtle and Vex Miller, Bertha Miller, Nettie Crowser appear with casual gossip about village life.
A fragmentary town item mentions guardians facing fines by law and urges boys to avoid trouble. It notes a doctor’s availability and a December timing for a move. Miss Clara Clowser returns home while Miss Gertie Christ moves in to help, as Grandma Hetrick needs help due to age and infirmity.
Prairie Pickups and community notes describe planting corn, blooming fruit trees, and local visits. It mentions rain, barn and house painting, Sabbath school, measles, and outings. plus Clover Leaf Route excursion offers to Portland Eugene Albany and a Denver trip for an upcoming homeopathy conference with low rates and stopovers.
The Clover Leaf Route offers one fare round trips with a 30 day return limit from April 22 and May 29 covering nearly all Kansas and parts of Missouri. Tickets target Kansas City St Joseph Leavenworth Topeka and other cities with free reclining chair cars and vestibuled sleepers. Call nearest agent or write Co C Jenkins Gen Pass Agent Toledo Ohio for full details.
An ad promises a prepaid portfolio of World’s Fair views for fifteen cents plus postage. Buyers send distress and fifteen cents to N. E. Buckies & Co. in Chicago to receive a high quality book with full page building views and descriptions. If unsatisfied, stamps refunded and book kept.
A reader from Garden Valley Wisconsin credits Coors products with curing children’s measles coughs after trying various medicines. The letter praises White Wine of Tar Syrup and notes quick improvement after three days. The ad cites J E Sturgis as the seller and includes other brief notices about tonics and digestive aids.
An 1800s style promotional piece extols spring as a time of happiness and prosperity while noting ailments from a torpid liver to disordered nerves. It touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as beneficial for harmony and productivity and promotes Morris English Stable Powder for equine and dairy use, with prices and vendor note.
Those who have used Dr King’s New Discovery value it. Others may try a free trial bottle by contacting H. E. Bucklen & Co. Send your name to receive a sample box of New Life Pills and a Guide to Health free. Guaranteed to do you good at Charles C. Deam’s drugstore.
An advertisement blend touts Simmons Liver Regulator as a cure for sick headaches, claiming a Brownsville West Virginia reader notes relief. Another line promotes De Wiltt Witch Hazel Salve for burns cuts bruises and skin sores, urging use for piles and other ailments.
Opinion line suggests railway safety depends on people obeying positions and instructions to prevent accidents. No specific events, dates, or names present.
A veterinary liniment advertised as a safe speedy cure for barbed wire cuts wounds galls scratches sore shoulders and back sweeney puffs pull evil and all blemishes. Marketed as a must have for horse owners with prices 50 cts and 1.00 sold by J. E. Sturgis 13110. Don’t ask the sheriff which end of the rope to pull on.
A Roberts Indiana resident praises Dr Wells New Cough Cure sold by J E Sturgis at 25 cents. The letter also hints at a tariff to reduce surplus labor and mentions a Dijon France heart corrector with a poplar tree claimed to date to 722 A D measuring 122 feet tall and 45 feet around the base.
Promotion touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as highly successful with testimonials from leading citizens nationwide. It credits industry and study for its merit and claims Hood's pills cure nausea headaches indigestion and biliousness. Sold by druggists.
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