28 Jan 1879
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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1879
Page
1
The notice states all local notices cost 10 cents per line with a minimum charge of 1 dollar per insertion. It adds that no local notice, regardless of length, will be published for less than 1 dollar and that transient advertising must be prepaid.
Hon George A. Bicknell and other officials listed include Congressmen Cunningham and Slaughter and Judge Zenor. The County Commissioners meet on the first Monday in March, June, September, and December, with Peter M. Zenor David Jordan and Joseph Deweese named as commissioners.
The text lists residents and officials including W. B. Slemons Jacob Deutsch Corydon Lewis W Bowling Dr H C Fouts Chas Messin Lanesville Philip Felker Jacob Hand F Wolpert Bligabeth Funk and others, indicating a community roster or notice from the area.
New Alvapy mails leave Corydon daily via New Albany to Laneaville Rock Lick Evans Landing Rosewood Mauckport New Amsterdam Valley City Worth Laconia Rehoboth Valmyra Hancock Sarren New Salisbury Bradford Frenchtown Georgetown Burnville Mill Town and Silvnalesve. New Middletown mails run Mondays and Thursdays at 7 4 M. Marekpott Cedar Wood Crisp's Cross Roads on Thursdays at 6 M. Sharp's Mill on Saturdays at 12 4 M.
Carl Van Webber, disinherited by his uncle for loving a governess, discovers a long-lost heiress cousin to whom the fortune truly passes. After hardship and debt from a fall, Letty West learns she is the rightful heir, ending their poverty with sudden wealth.
A bright sister recounts a New Jersey boyhood anecdote about Edison. At about six he tried sitting on eyes, then mimicked a goose. He hid in a barn nest he built, attempting to hatch eggs, until drums of discovery and laughter ended the curious stunt.
A glowing tale of a West Point engineer’s wife who studied higher mathematics to aid her husband. She raised and educated their sons, shared their studies, and supported them through war. When both sons and the father died in battle, she died of a broken heart, a quiet moral about quiet faith and domestic sacrifice.
A moral and medical reflection on ages forty five to sixty, describing prime strength and later frailty, with cautionary notes on gout and apoplexy while urging prudence. The document shifts to a record of a teachers institute discussing geography orthography and text books, noting criticisms and the debts owed to local contributors.
The Spencer Township Institute met in Frenchtown on January 11 1879 with county superintendent D F Lemmon presiding by request and virtue of office. Secretary W J Armu...
A year-end reminiscence tells of Ryan the grocer who received a tiny brandy dose and a quick toast before blessing attendees. Deadwood reports a Christmas tree tale where a man at the Black Hills got a hangman’s noose with a note promising 24 hours to leave town. A final aphorism notes that a man’s character cannot be strengthened by whitewash.
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