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Newspaper
Bluffton Banner
Location
Bluffton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1894
Page
6
Dailey and others visit the city on weekends while Jefferson township figures, and Ossian notes plant use. The Portland Fair promises an animal exhibit on September 24 25. Boston and New York garment workers win a strike ending sweat shops. Wells county residents praise Simmons Liver Regulator for biliousness and digestion with a 26 cent sample.
The text lists wage reopenings at Goshen mills and Anderson glass works, Wardell the spiritualist exposed in Bluffton, local marriage and social notes, new business adds in Dunkirk and Elwood, farm and livestock price ideas, election logistics in Indiana townships, and a Huntington Democrat barbecue special train.
An early advertising item proclaims a large stock of artificial teeth and a tariff reduction enabling lower prices. Dentist A S Richmond offers gold crowns bridges and plate-free teeth with minimally painful extraction and fillings. The note mentions relocation to rooms over John E Sturgis drug store at 3813 Tuomas Sturgis.
A health ad touts Drummond's Lightning Remedy as the cure for rheumatism. It promotes its superiority over cheap nostrums, claims a speedy cure, and offers two bottles by express for $5. Address Drummond Medicine Co. in New York with agent recruitment notes.
Justus and Royse offer long term loans at the lowest interest rates. Paperwork approval leads to immediate funding. Also representing the farm department of Continental Insurance Co.
The Chicago and Erie railroad offers a round trip limited to Oct 5 at reduced fares for Oct 4 barbecue travel to Huntington. Fares include Decatur 60¢, Tocsin 60¢, Preble 75¢, Kingsland 50¢, Magley 70¢, Uniondale 40¢ with sale Oct 3 and 4. Return train leaves Huntington at 10 p.m. Tickets valid through Oct 5. W G MacEdward T P A.
E A Smith will auction a diverse farm herd and equipment at the L J Bachelor farm location 1.5 miles south of Bluffton on Wednesday October 10. Items include a horse two Jersey cows with calves one and three fourth Jersey calf twelve shoats two sows harnesses wagon tools hay equipment and household stoves with corn in the shock among other articles.
Notice for the annual meeting of the German Fire Insurance Company of French Township Adams County Indiana at the Election school house at 10 oclock am Saturday October 6. Members urged to attend as important business will be transacted including cyclone insurance. Bring your dinners. 3912 Albert Yarger, appraiser.
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