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Newspaper
Bluffton Banner
Location
Bluffton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1894
Page
7
Dailey the dentist and Dr E E Miller set Saturday office hours at Dr Hatfield's for eye exams and glasses. Vera Cruz druggist Wm Mertz visits. Uniondale’s John Burnside and Chester township’s Vincent Broom stop by. Forty seventh regiment reunion planned in Anderson October 3 4. Community notes include farm news rail shops hiring, local visitors, and upcoming telephone exchange near November first.
An old advertisement fragment from Tacoma mentions a liver remedy with a vivid claim and a red stamp wrapper. The text cites a person named Gezo W. Jackson and a seemingly promotional tagline about liver medicine and a product package.
A dentist advertises the largest stock of artificial teeth in the city with reduced rates after a tarif cut. Dr A S Richmond promises painless extractions, gold crowns and bridge work, and teeth filled without pain. The practice has moved to rooms over the John E Sturgis drug store at 3813 Thomas Sturgis.
An anatomy of tariff cuts shows farmers gain free lumber bindings and grain bags, plus reduced duties on wool goods and farm implements. Domestic wool prices rise while foreign wool falls, challenging protectionist views and questioning wool growers beliefs about free wool impact.
The North Manchester College opens with 150 students in the first week. The administration aims for a high grade school at low cost. Departments include regular university faculties with experienced teachers. The science department reports on local animals for government use. the oak campus is attractive and healthy in the valley.
The article argues that high wool duties did not raise prices, noting a steep decline from 35 to 60 percent following McKinley era policies. It cites 1890 duties pushed by Delano Harpster and Lawrence, and contrasts with temporary gains after 1892 election before slipping again. The piece urges wool growers to study facts over theories.
Wilson Watson explains his claim against the Ohio Farmers Insurance Co after a thunder storm killed a prized horse. The Bluffton agent W W Greek supervised appraisal and paid $75 in cash, restoring Watson’s confidence in the insurer and urging others to remain insured.
E A Smith will offer for public sale at the farm of L J Bachelor one and one half miles south of Bluffton on Wednesday October 10th the following property One horse two good young milled cows one half Jersey and both of which with calf one and three fourth Jersey calf twelve shoats two broad sows work harness double set light harness set single harness wagon good mower hay rake set hay ladders breaking plow two horse cultivator pair bobsleds good cooking stove heating stove corn in the shock and other articles
S H Cochran will offer for sale at his residence one mile north of Curryville on Thursday October 4 the following property a brood mare three two year old colts two from trotting stock a cow a single buggy and harness a road cart set double harness Bennett stump puller ten acres of corn in the field hay in the mow and household furniture among other articles.
Notice is given that the annual meeting of the German Fire Insurance Company of French township Adams county Indiana will be held at the election school house in the township at 10 oclock am Saturday October 6. Members are urged to attend as important business will be transacted including cyclone insurance matters. Bring your dinners. Albert Yarger Appraiser.
Effingham Illinois Democrat accuses Republicans of misrepresenting Governor Altgeld accusing him of seeking a U.S. Senate seat and plotting against MacVeagh. The paper says Altgeld is not a candidate and supports MacVeagh, calling the rumor a Republican ploy to sow Democratic dissension.
The Philadelphia Record notes Republican journals concede business is improving rapidly. They struggle to reconcile earlier doom prophecies with current and expected recovery as the feared blight from repealing the McKinley act has not materialized.
The piece argues Americans did not gain free sugar under the McKinley tariff. It claims taxpayers paid 12 to 15 million dollars yearly to the Sugar Trust, which earned six-tenths of a cent protection per pound refined, a burden borne by taxpayers.
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