1908 -- cars you couldn't afford

 

Or motorcycles either

Patent medicine -- you are cured!

 Ads from the late 1800s and early 1900s dotted all newspapers with ridiculous claims that are still being sold in the 2020s. Purge the poop, get cleaner blood. Castor oil.

"Tell your doctor if you are flatulent." 

1919 news

Democrat July 1919

ANOTHER PIG

Feeding Club Formed in Bath

Another Pig Feeding Club is formed in the county. Boys and girls in the neighborhood of Bath have formed a club and are starting their pigs on feed.

It is their intention to make the Brookville and Laurel clubs work for the county prize, regardless of the interest the other two are showing in the start. There are other interesting points of competition; the three girls enrolled against the 11 boys, and the nine Franklin County members against the five Union County members.

The Bath Grange is offering to pay at least $15 on the expenses of the winner of a trip to the state Club Round-Up at Lafayette next spring.

G.L. Reed, County agent

Note: Bath kids knew how to have a snortful of fun

Buggy Wrecked

Reckless driving cause a serious collision Saturday night when a new buggy had two wheels wrecked by an auto near the residence of the late Samuel Masters on North Main Street.

A shade tree was ruined in the mix-up but none of the occupants of auto or buggy were hurt. 

Sunday School Picnic

The Fairfield M.E. Sunday School will have an all-day picnic next Saturday, Aug. 30. Come will well filled baskets and enjoy this all-day outing at the Noree Cory cottages, north of Fairfield. An excellent program has been arranged.

Ads from 1880

 

1906 -- truly local news

Democrat, 1906

ELEVATOR BURNED

The Willey Grain Elevator at New Bath Destroyed Saturday Night.

The large grain elevator at New Bath, a station on the C.C.& I. Railroad in Bath Township, with 1,400 bushels of corn, 800 bushels of wheat and a lot of coal in adjacent shed, was destroyed by fire Saturday night.

The elevator was owned by the Willey Milling and Elevator Company and was comparatively new. It will be rebuilt at once, as New Bath is an excellent grain shipping point. The origin of the fire is unknown.

PRIZE OFFER

Extra Cash Prize Offered to Tomato Growers by the Brookville Canning Company

The prize offer of $25 to tomato growers, contracting before March 25th, delivering 1,000 bushels of tomatoes during the season of 1906 is increased to $30 for the first 1,000 bushels and one dollar per ton extra for all over 1,000 bushels. Five acres on good ground should average at least 1,500 bushels for which we would pay you $345.

BROOKVILLE CANNING CO.

G.M. SHIRK, President

ATTENTION FARMERS

We have just unloaded a car of Smith Great Western Endless April manure spreaders and kindly ask you to come and examine same before buying.

We can show you more good practical features of the Great Western spreader than all other makes combined. We are making special prices and terms for the next 30 days and it will pay you to get in on this deal as this is for 30 days only.

FRIES & GEIS

SCHOOL HOUSE

In Blooming Grove Township Destroyed by Fire Monday Night

The schoolhouse in Blooming Grove Township near the residence of Mrs. Mary Deter, was destroyed by fire Monday evening.

This was a new building, having been built only about two years ago by John N. Sherwood, then trustee, to replace an old building that was burned to the ground.

The origin of the fire is unknown. Loss $1,000. Insurance, $600.

 

Line art from 1900

 Before newspapers were capable of producing half-tone photography, they relied on line art, or line cuts. Engravings were difficult to complete and uncommon in smaller papers, except for photos in syndicated advertising.

A true art form. No publication could exist without a sketch artist.