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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1899
Page
7
Fragmented OCR reveals a vintage poem or prose piece with phrases about fashion and weather. Readers encounter garbled lines referencing “showers,” “posies,” and a dated tone. The text seems to mix rural imagery with street scene snippets and names, but is largely indecipherable.
A man named Vane confronts Dorothy Davis on the beach after a quarrel with an old friend. He declares his love, learns she is engaged to Dr. Drew with her parents' consent, and laments the loss of the woman he loves. He curses the name Miss Davis and vows to grieve.
The piece extols the Mauser pistol as a future cavalry sidearm while lamenting lost romantic warfare. It recalls Napoleonic figures and Meissner’s poetry, noting how science drains war’s poetry as future horsemen would carry compact projectile weapons and modern gear.
A distorted narrative passage follows a man failing to notice a hidden threat while courting Elsie. Dialogue reveals a future marriage plan and social pressure. The scene shifts to a tense late moment where a proposal is refused and a probate or estate theme surfaces, centering on wealth and plans tied to a treasure.
Prof Angel, trusted painter of the Queen, reveals no secrets to an interviewer about the forthcoming royal portrait. At Windsor Castle for the Queen’s eightieth birthday she asked to be seen as a woman, not a monarch, as the Windsor scene is captured for circulation. The Queen forbids reproducing the original, so Angel will copy it for public use.
In Berlin at Schering's factory, where photographic sensitized paper and plates are produced, air is drawn through fine fabric cloth filters and circulated by roof ventilators to reduce black specks in smoke laden paper production.
An aged veteran, whose leg was amputated ten years ago, had the limb buried in a coffin within the cemetery and funeral rites were held with the veteran weeping many times. Since then he has left weekly flowers on the grave despite the changing months. A cyclist can ride downhill with ease but struggles uphill with a flat tire.
South Carolina readers learn that tea farming is expanding as a new Southern industry. Prof Charles L L Shepard of Vinehurst Summerville reports a 25 percent return from Pinehurst experiments with green and black teas. Pinehurst uses colorfully skilled labor, including supervised child labor in free schools, to harvest leaves for processing.
The Nashville American reports Providence, R I, hosts the world’s largest silverware and jewelry factories. It notes about 250 shops produce gold and brass items, and the city’s jewelry trade fuels a broad local economy with many small operators rising to prosperity.
A report on telegraph operators links tuberculosis heart trouble and brain strain to constant nervous tension and monotonous sound exposure. It details elevated death rates among young operators and notes that long shifts affect breathing and heart action, with calls for urgent withdrawal from work when stressed.
The article notes that most Chinese individuals can prepare a respectable meal at home with a wife or daughter in law cooking. In large places male cooks work, while families share simple meals from a rice bucket with chopsticks. Banquets elevate eating to a fine art, with extended dining hours.
A Honduras ravine in Ulloa Valley is described as a natural weather bureau. The cataract’s roar signals rain and storm intensity while tradition links the site to a dragon who controls clouds and winds. An odd aside notes how married women behave toward their husbands.
A quirky dialogue shows a band leader boasting about their playing, claiming they learned notes from Boston and that they “gits all our notes dar k from Boston, we does.” The exchange highlights rural humor and music boasting.
The French town of Epernay hides a vast underground city where chalk streets wind for miles. The largest champagne houses own cellars covering forty five acres and storing about 5,000,000 bottles of wine.
Early September orders were placed in Wisconsin for 50 000 Christmas trees to be shipped East. A proverb notes steady ascent beats quick ascent, and urges common sense to season knowledge.
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