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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1903
Page
7
Corydon merchants promote home goods from Bullett & Son’s ice cream freezers to Rowe Bros furniture. Community notes mention school services, church outings, and an all-county Fourth of July gathering with preparations at Pfrimmer's Chapel and St. Peter’s Sunday school.
Corydon hosts a two mile parade with bannered schools. Dinner on the fair grounds follows an oration by J Frank Hanley of Lafayette Indiana. Patriotic songs led by cornets and school choirs. Phonograph music all day and automobile races headline a day of events. Rowe Bros advertise dining chairs from three dollars.
A mob of about two thousand attacked the county workhouse in Wilmington to lynch George White, the accused assailant and killer of Helen Bishop. Guards fought back, a boy and a man were wounded, and White was seized, confessed at the scene, and was burned with bullets raking his body. Narratives report King Peter I departing Geneva for Belgrade and other items from St. Louis to Canon City.
Columbus set to form a union for servant girls with walking delegates and working agreements after several meetings. In Portsmouth an 11 year old girl Bertha Firchild choked on a grape and died before aid could arrive.
Dayton Ohio reports Robert Webb 92 an inmate at the Dayton hospital for the insane died from burns after falling into a tub of boiling water in his ward. Also in Salem Ohio a 2 year old girl Julia Bullard drowned after slipping into a water crack. London mourns as King Edward orders two weeks of mourning for King Alexander of Servia.
In New Haven Yale University was defeated by Harvard 16 to 6 in the annual commencement game. Also reporting Naples volcano Vesuvius in full eruption as of June 22.
A long list of diverse items including a Paris art raid valued at $200,000, a San Juan hotel robbery, a Harrisburg wheel accident injuring two, a Rome Cardinals sitting in July, Croatian armed clash with gendarmes, a Norfolk and Western derailment near Marion with two trainmen dead, a $7 million cotton deal, the Adams descendant’s death in Hamilton, a New Orleans sewer project, and various political and criminal updates from across the United States and abroad.
United States Commissioner Wilson fixed a 2000 bond for C. H. Winter who is charged with keeping Nellie Fields a negro girl in involuntary servitude near Brookside Alabama. The case was to be presented before a federal grand jury.
A June 27 snapshot shows cattle, sheep, hogs, and calf prices in Cleveland Chicago Buffalo Pittsburgh and Cincinnati. Notable quotes include fat steer ranges at Cleveland 4.65 to 4.80 per cwt, hogs around 6.10, and, in New York, steers at 4.35 to 5.50 with lambs at 6.00. Wheat and corn prices are listed by No. 2 red and mixed grades, while Buffalo and Pittsburgh markets show varied stocker and feeder quotes.
The notice proclaims Douglas Shoes as superior with bold claims of unmatched quality. It asserts the maker’s name is famous and that Douglas shoes represent solid workmanship, comfort, style, and lasting wear. It urges buyers to trial to be convinced of their wearing qualities.
Notice announces three month supply estimates for the County Poor Asylum from July to October. Bids in accordance with on file will be opened on a Wednesday at 10 o clock a.m. in the auditor's office, Harrison County.
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