Fragmentary verse notes on a crowded nocturnal scene
A garbled reflection describes a nightlife crowd and a debonair figure amid dim lighting. The text evokes memory, indulgence, and the crowd’s pull as the world seems to blur from dusk to dawn.
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 5 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1899
Page
3
A garbled reflection describes a nightlife crowd and a debonair figure amid dim lighting. The text evokes memory, indulgence, and the crowd’s pull as the world seems to blur from dusk to dawn.
In a Western scene, Miss Foster and Kitty chase a mail parcel plot involving Cady, Glocester, and Miss Fowler. A stagecoach encounter with a missing horse leads to a rescue, while a bundle of letters reveals personal papers and spurs a tense confrontation. The tale ends with insinuations about mistaken identities and romantic entanglements reflected in the Argonaut's line on shared pleasures.
The speaker argues there are right and wrong ways to measure earthly life. He contrasts worldly pleasure with spiritual growth and warns against valuing life by wealth or sorrow. He urges counting life by good done and moral progress, citing examples of faith figures and labor for others.
A preacher urges the hearer to dedicate worldly means to Christ and use talents for the poor. He contrasts worldly and Christian life measures, cites notable last moments, and urges preparation for eternity as the old year ends and the new begins. Copyright 1898.
Read through a compact Indiana update with deaths and accidents across towns like Greensburg Farmland Indianapolis Noblesville Muncie Anderson and Evansville. Notable items include George Kidd’s Princeton opera house plans and a gas well near Lagerstown producing gas and oil.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.