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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1905
Page
2
The Corydon Gorgian Democrat lists subscription rates and display ad pricing. It notes a post office registration and claims ongoing price pressures from the leather trust affecting local shoe dealers and living costs amid the Russian strike, citing monthly wages by industry for men and women.
The first Indiana General Assembly convened in 1816 with Isaac Blackford as Speaker and John Paul as Senate president pro tem. The 1869 regular session and a subsequent extra session saw Republicans push to ratify the Fifteenth Amendment, triggering mass resignations and a locked-door standoff as Democrats refused to vote. Judge George W. Denbo of Floyd County served in the Senate during that era.
Floyd County Board of Commissioners will file 123 suits next Monday in Floyd Circuit Court to recover taxes on sequestered property worth about 125000 with taxes due estimated over 25000. Sequestered assets include mortgages and personal property held by residents across Illinois Minnesota Texas California and other states. Additional actions are planned in coming months as industry funding for colleges remains strained.
Hot Springs Arkansas health and pleasure resort accessible via the Inox Mountain Route with daily Pullman sleepers chair cars from St Louis or Memphis. Low round trip rates liberal limits free descriptive literature rates maps call on agents or R T Matthews Louisville Kentucky. Fortified by assorted goods from Fock salt oil meal oyster spell grit and poultry stock food from Pratts.
The piece urges against self treatment and promotes consulting a doctor for fatigue and weakness. It recommends a concentrated fat food to enrich the blood and restore vigor, warning against unproven advertised remedies.
An advertisement proclaims Scott's Emulsion as a superior nourishment that rebuilds the weakened body when other foods fail. It targets run down or emaciated individuals and especially promises benefit for delicate children and pallid anaemic girls, offering a free sample.
A late 19th or early 20th century ad extols Mi o na as a cure for digestive ills linked to winter living. It claims relief for stomach and bowel irritation, insomnia, headaches, and general weakness, selling at 50 cents a box with a money back guarantee. It lists numerous names and towns in a long distribution paragraph.
Greatly reduced one way and round trip ticket rates from St. Louis and Illinois to Arkansas Texas Indian Territory and Oklahoma and many western points. Home-seeker specials and tours with Pullman sleepers and stopovers. Descriptive literature available from R T Matthews Louisville Kentucky.
Shown is a roll of honor of subscribers and payments to The Democrat since the last report. Names span Corydon Hill Grove Mauckport New Salisbury Mount Veron and other Indiana towns with occasional Kentucky entries and Oklahoma towns for broader readers.
Hyomei promises relief from catarrh of nose throat and lungs by inhalation. L. A. Riley & Son guarantee refunds if not effective, with a $1 complete outfit and 50 cent refills. The ad touts ozone-enriched air and a pocket inhaler for discreet use.
Old Grove tonic advertised as a tasteless iron and quinine drink for 25 years. Claims no cure and no pay, price 50 cents. Package promises strength and reliability, reflecting era medical tonics.
C H Ginkins tells friends he cannot say when he will be back but expects to return by April first to set monuments and gravestones. He asks patrons to leave orders at his office with his son George F Genkins.
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