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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1901
Page
3
A reflective poem recalls childhood visits to a familiar church and brook. The speaker laments lost friends, traces worn carvings, and seeks solace in a Sabbath church where birdsong fills the air with welcome and peace.
Jans Jensen leads a risky top-of-pile battle as Lead’s woodpile fire consumes the mountain of logs feeding the mills. Despite night and day effort, the town fears the blaze, while Nell Onderdock watches hoping for her hero to emerge. The fire finally dies as crews seal airways and logs keep burning.
A large woodpile fuels a tense social scene as Nell Onderdock and Jans Jensen, an educated Swede, contend with class and romance. Nell admires the woodpile’s power and value while Jans, devoted yet rejected, imagines a future shaped by longing and unrequited love.
A scarred man admits a yardsale of guilt after taking ten dollars from a Boston newsstand vendor and receiving five too much. He pockets the extra, then learns he was actually two dollars short and suffers remorse, while a companion questions the moral gravity of the act.
The essay contrasts true hospitality with formal entertaining. It cites Robert Burdette on seeking the guest’s companionship over a lavish meal. It argues genuine welcome comes from personality, not elaborate menus, and the arrogance of some men is defined by looking down on others.
The preacher extols religion as sunshine not gloom, urging believers to embrace Christian society, reject worldly amusement, and accept divine explanation for life’s mysteries. He portrays salvation as uplifting, with heaven as a bright celestially joyous procession and the faithful welcomed into an endless chorus of joy.
Lionel Bertram Jones confronts his wife Ethel over a supposed swindle after a four week marriage. He recalls the day he proposed and her doughy alibi as a guilty look crosses her face, while a canary chimes overhead.
A humorous exchange shows a NY Weekly character predicting fortunes of selling a cottage and horses after 11 am, then claiming a palace on the Hudson and a summer steam yacht at 2 pm, and asking for 5 cents for street car fare at 4 pm.
Washington correspondent describes the White House telegraph and cipher bureau known as the war room. Maps on walls track ships and regiments as the president issues orders from the distant front in Spain and the Philippines, while signal corps keep rapid field communications.
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