09 Aug 1870
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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1870
Page
1
A scanned page outlines advertising rates for notices and legal ads, followed by a political column criticizing the Corydon Republican era canvass and detailing tax figures, Reconstruction debates, and local ideas on youth political involvement. It includes candidate nominations and social anecdotes from a regional community.
The notice explains advance payment requirements for subscriptions: one year for ench 150, six months for 100, three months for 2, and stresses that no paper will be discontinued without notice and full arrearages. It also warns against removing the paper from the office without notice and payment, with charges accruing to the time of notice and arrearages settled.
The St. Louis Democrat replies to Albany Evening Journal, defending republican roots in protective duties, denouncing monopoly tariffs, and warning against forcing a Whig and monopoly tariff under the name republican. It recalls past fights for the party and warns of continued alignment with tariff champions.
A punning note from a down east editor asks subscribers to settle up so he can repeat a joke on creditors. The Cleveland Herald mocks marriage vows proposing a dare between groom and bride. A New York Radical review predicts Democrats face a difficult House majority, then cites a Georgia negro receiving ninety nine years for murder.
In Washington at the Treasury Department a young woman discovered a mouse in her chignon. the animal had mounted the night before and caused a scene as it fled when she screamed. Her co workers witnessed the panic and relief followed as the vermin escaped, described as larger than usual for the site.
The New York Tribune argues theatres are salutary institutions in a large city. They augment public security by uplifting minds, sow seeds of education, and scatter worthy impulses through their influence on the masses.
A printer’s apprentice misstates punctuation rules in a humorous exchange. The youngest worker explains stopping to breathe before a comma and inserting a semicolon at will, then adding a paragraph for tobacco as a joke.
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