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08 Apr 1879
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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1879
Page
1
The notice states no focal advertisement will be placed for under one dollar and all transient ads must be prepaid. It outlines payment requirements for small insertions and emphasizes advance payment.
District offices listed including George A. Bicknell and John Ridley with clerks and treasurer details. County court meetings scheduled for March June September December. Mail routes and post offices named with daily and weekly schedules. Miscellaneous local anecdotes and moral adages follow, including social notes and religious meeting reports.
The bequest tale centers on $30,000 in stock and accrued dividends in the Girard National Bank. Lawyers trustees and administrators work with commissioners and anonymous correspondents. A famous prima donna appears, connected by accident to the case, as reported by The Times.
The article recounts lawyer William F. Johnson’s decade long search for heirs of Old Sidney Warwick, who died with money in Girard Bank unclaimed. Johnson's London voyage in 1874 pursued Warwick’s possible heirs among about thirty Warwicks, facing artists, butlers, and aristocrats. He persuades the bank to locate rightful heirs, risking poverty on the quest, with banker Hugh McCulloch advising retreat, while Johnson insists the claimants are found.
Lawyer uncovering long forgotten Warwick family ties traces Sidney Warwick and Warwick Claggett in San Francisco and Vermont. He follows a trail from Bilster Square to Richmond and London, learning of marriages to Ardiff and a Richmond physician, then locates a missing William Warwick believed dead, only to reunite with his wife after a five year quest spanning over sixteen thousand miles.
At a Corydon Indiana meeting of the National Christian Temperance Union a committee of eleven prominent townspeople reported a preamble and declaration defending the organization and the Kelter family against slanders. The resolution was adopted by a rising vote.
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