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Newspaper
Bluffton Banner
Location
Bluffton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1903
Page
6
An advertisement promotes Scott's Emulsion as a powerful linchpin for restoring flesh and strength. It targets invalids, convalescents, consumptives, and weak children, claiming to nourish bone, flesh, blood, and nerve and offering a free sample.
The Knights of Pythias plan a December roll call gathering expected to draw a large crowd. A fundraising committee reports success and aims to cover banquet costs by charging members twenty five cents each.
Statistics for the year ending August 31 reveal automobiles killed as many people in England in a week as railroad trains did in a year. England and Wales reported 3 991 accidents, 2 991 injured, and 411 deaths. The weekly averages were 76.75 accidents, 67.72 injured, and 7.9 deaths. In the last twelve months eight railway passengers and officials were killed, with 224 injured.
S C Reid advertises buying second growth white elm poles at the Clover Leaf hub factory in Bluffton. Poles four inches and over any length accepted. For details call at the factory. m-w-t.
The Cincinnati Blairton Chicago railroad advances toward Pennville with grading from Bluffton. Workers include Americans Irish and Armenians amid a rivalry. Landowners Gemmill fight a right of way, while lawsuits may proceed. A new railroad water tank, fourteen feet across and built by the Red Cross factory, will be placed near Wiley avenue as the line nears completion.
Grove secures city council permission to display his rotary engine at the water works on Thanksgiving day. The engine will run on steam from boilers with a Commercial club committee to observe. Mr Grove will attend to explain the apparatus and answer questions.
The notice lists marriages between Aaron Adam Knoll and Edith L King in Lancaster township, Marion Deaver and Lucy Baker in Jackson township, William Hunt and Verna Simmons, and E J Miller and Inez P Brickley. A penciled entry notes a Thanksgiving Day marriage for one couple.
A playful medieval style list treats daily life as a string of proverbs. It blends food, household tasks, and social scenes into witty observations about "full purse" means fullness, buttered bread as grease, and kitchen labor. The piece mocks standards of prosperity and gendered labor with tongue in cheek phrasing.
In Wells County Circuit Court forenoon session, motions discussed after attorney absence. Reed & Clark vs Shephard dissolved. $47 due to Reed and Clark. public sale of property to follow with ten days notice. Guardian ad litem appointed for Perry vs Gollie Perry partition. land deemed indivisible, sale planned. Crosdale partition suit set and bond fixed. Ralph C Jones admitted to the bar. photos of the bar taken at Ashbaucher studio. Several cases dismissed or costs awarded including Monroe vs City of Bluffton and Swartz cases.
Mrs Harvey Michaels of near Markle died Friday night at 10 from burns suffered when a lamp fire erupted in her bedroom during a bout of typhoid fever. The blaze struck the bed, burned one side of her body, and caused heavy facial burns after she was found unconscious. She leaves a husband and three children. Funeral held Sunday at 10. Burial at White Church cemetery near Huntington.
Saturday evening at Mike Clear’s home in Stringtown Jacob Morgan and Maud May Clark wed in a simple ceremony conducted by Squire M. W. Walbert. The bride is daughter of Councilman James Clark and the groom hails from Jackson township with a small invited attendance.
A 1902-04 era column warns of a widespread drug habit invading all classes, citing morphine use by James Gates and its lethal potential. It discusses tobacco and stimulants, then reports Indiana divorce and marriage rates for 1900–1902, noting fewer divorces though laws seem lax.
Thanksgiving season sale offers a wide range of men and boys suits and overcoats in various grades and prices from $1.50 to $20.00. Also featuring winter caps hats shirts trousers shoes gloves and undergarments with emphasis on value and full tailoring.
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