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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1899
Page
8
A fragmentary report details arrival of the Big Four route trains at Terre H. Mattern with mentions of St Leos Dany Oyette and Chieize Abesandrih Andersen. Other scattered names include Wolhash Nites Benton, Lafayette Cire SGM De pata Say.ta and Leainvills. The text is heavily garbled with unreadable segments.
A garbled set of time stamps and letters appears like a fragmented diary or schedule. The text includes numbers such as 6.30 am and 42pm with sporadic fragments like Mo and SaT, giving no clear event, place, or identifiable names.
A child suffered crushed feet by a water wagon. Local residents buy new buggies and a sharper profits from Wallace show. Sam Bartley and Sam K. Sonner are mentioned along with civic and social items. Wheat prospects, bee honey harvest, and fair preparations fill the town column.
An old newspaper fragment includes an ad for Swamp Root medicine with prices, plus local notices. It mentions Dr. Kimn, Evans' Landing, and various residents and events. Also notes a farewell sermon by Rev. Gunter, visits by Miss Monnie Harrell and others, and an Indiana Gas Belt excursion with rail rates. A public real estate sale in Harrison county Indiana is listed with payment terms.
Citizens of Corydon and Harrison township are notified that a male resident will apply to the Harrison County Board of Commissioners at the next session in Corydon for licenses to sell intoxicating liquors in quantities one quart or less to be consumed on premises. The descriptions reference two locations in Corydon including a two-story brick building fronting Chestnut Street and the southwest corner of a room in a building near Chestnut Street. Additional names and local references appear in the notice.
Christian J Heuser, a male resident of O Bannon in Harrison county, Indiana, announces his plan to apply to the Harrison county Board of Commissioners at the next session in Corydon on the first Monday of September 1899 for a license to retail intoxicating liquors in drinkable quantities on the premises described as the lower front room of a one and a half story frame building on lot number 1 in the town of O Bannon.
Edward T Bowling of Elizabeth Posey township Harrison county Indiana announces an application to the Harrison county Board of Commissioners to obtain a license to retail and sell intoxicating liquors in a small on premise amount. The proposed location is the lower east front room of a two story frame building on lots 23 and 24 Beech street Elizabeth Posey Township. The first Monday of September is the target date for action.
An inhabitant of Jackson City Jackson township Harrison county Indiana signs for license to retail intoxicating liquors at a two story frame building on Railway Avenue fronting a named tower, to be heard at the Harrison county Board of Commissioners session in Jackson City.
A male resident over twenty one will apply to Harrison County Board of Commissioners at Corydon for a license to retail intoxicating liquors in Morgan Township. The described premises occupy the lower east room of a frame building on the New Albany and Vincennes turnpike near the northeast quarter of section 35, township 1S range 4E, containing about twelve acres.
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