Duty Calls as Old Glory Wavers in Storm
A stirring verse evokes awakening duty and vows renewed as the American flag, Old Glory, waves bravely amid a storm, inspiring resolve and patriotic sentiment.
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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1918
Page
5
A stirring verse evokes awakening duty and vows renewed as the American flag, Old Glory, waves bravely amid a storm, inspiring resolve and patriotic sentiment.
The Corydon Democrat reports on Hasst Hardware sales, a family man’s farm position inquiry, Camp Taylor service member Lieutenant Lemmon visiting family, and Askren the county assessor recovering from an injury. It highlights James B. Stewart as a Floyd county Democratic commissioner candidate and promotes a Laval cream separator trial by Hurst Hardware Co. The piece ends with Edgar Miles’s humorous bed misadventure tied to a mistaken fire whistle.
Notice states the closed season for raccoon, mink, otter, opossum and fox in Indiana. It declares trapping or taking illegal during the period from a specified start date to November 15 of the same year and bans possession of such fur or skins outside the season. The fragment ends with a garbled phone reference.
Mercury plunged to 16 degrees below zero as a heavy snowstorm trapped residents. No school in town due to impossible travel and absent teachers. Local visitors and residents faced continued cold while IST and others tended to roads and local chores.
The ceremony took place at the Pesters home in New Albany on Wednesday. Edward Boldrey, pastor of the Congregational church, officiated. The bride is Miss Meg Henry Leiter of Pavey township, a refined young woman, and the groom is a farmer, son of Sit, pid Meg Henry Leiter. The marriage surprised many relatives who sent best wishes for a happy life together.
Notices mention a newborn son to Mr. and Mrs. Dell. Other items report illnesses including Mrs. John Deschamp with pneumonia and Mrs. Ed Starrett able to sit up. Several names appear in sick lists and nursing visits in Louisville.
An itemized ledger lists corrections to warrants and various expenditures including supplies from Kiger & Co and Corydon Natl Bank. It covers road fund transfers, special school fund balances, tuition disbursements, and donations to local buildings and teaching staff with detailed ledger entries and final balances.
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