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Newspaper
Bluffton Banner
Location
Bluffton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1894
Page
8
A compact guide covering partnership debts for all but special partnerships, void contracts with minors or lunatics, partner liability, illegal consideration, checks and notes rules, lost instruments, endorsements, accommodation notes, and due diligence in locating makers. It warns that Sunday contracts and Sunday notes are void and highlights that ignorance of these basics fuels litigation.
Health is fair. Dr. A. G. Vance has returned and is practicing. Frank Reynolds studies medicine under him. Fred Shigley attended his mother’s burial aged 86 years. Eddie Tremp injured by hay pully fall. Dr. Vance treated him. Murrah is identified with the democratic party.
The Vera Cruz Democratic slate remains on top with officers elected including Trustee 1st district F. W. Mosure, 3rd district Ferdinand Biberstine, treasurer Michael Hennefort, clerk Isaac Wanner, marshal Jesse Weist. Rev. Heusser gave farewell sermon Sunday forenoon and departed for Wisconsin last Monday.
A brief note expresses hope that the man will return to his family, fulfill his calling to preach the gospel, and do great good for the Master with divine blessing.
The C U C and C notes progress as ten or twelve teams and wagons pass through the city toward Balbec for grading. A depot site on West Washington is being purchased for freight and passenger use. Engineers prep for the Reiffsburg to Bluffton line while bed work stays light. Directors meet at Camden settling construction matters and depot plans. Hugh Dougherty attends, optimistic trains to Camden by July first, aiding Cluffton trade.
A sharp critique questions the A P A oath, citing its anti Catholic provisions. The piece highlights promises to bar Catholics from membership and church aid and to advance Protestant political influence, ending with a pledge to be sworn so help me God.
Vault C at the Philadelphia Mint containing 50 million in coined silver was opened last week in the presence of Supt. Townsend and U S Treasurer Morgan. The second lock required force, but the seal remained intact. Bags were rotten and will need rebagging, weighing 1 000 dollars per bag across 50 000 bags. The seal dated 1890 confirms prior storage of 33 million standard dollars and 17 million deposited in 1891.
Dampness rotted many bags beside the vault walls causing weight to rip bags and spill shining dollars onto the floor. Silver was transferred to sound bags and weighed, then loaded onto flat trucks for relocation until a future mint official change prompts another transfer.
The North-Western Line operates the North-Western Limited, a premier vestibuled train leaving Chicago at 6:30 p m daily for St Paul Minneapolis and Duluth. The train features gas lighting rich upholstery ornate carvings 16 section palace and compartment sleeping cars with baths, a dining car and a well stocked buffet library car. The service aims to maximize passenger comfort and attract repeat travel on this progressive western railway.
A reader denies a BANNeEr sketch accusing them of selling a goat and explains only an elm log in their clearing resembles a goat. They suspect Mr. Gimlet rode the stump chair and caused the log to sag, then mention cremating their…
A farmer narrator offers a dun mule for sale and mentions selling a red mule to John Romey who plans a mule team. The text notes political allegiance with a claim that a goat dying to a true democrat cannot change the narrator’s political stance, signed by John French Jr.
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