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Corydon Democrat

Location

Corydon, Indiana, United States of America

Date

Jul 08, 1903

Page

2

FECR In Democrat Building

Entered at the post office at Corydon nd a second class matter. Terms one year in advance one dollar.

FECR Democrat Corydon,nd

How They Grow Trusts in Indiana and Tax Strain

D H McAbee cites thirty six trusts in Indiana including the steel, glass, and hardware sectors, claiming widespread control over ninety one establishments. The piece denounces Republican tariff policies and higher prices, urging voters to oppose the party next election amid rising taxes and public costs.

D. H.mcabee Indiana Coffin and Casket Trust The Furniture Trust Tool Trust American Sewer Pipe Company Cement Trust Fruit Jar and Bottle Trust Tableware Trust American Window Glass Company Republican Iron and Steel Company American Stell and Wire Company American Stonbboard Compay American Tin-plate Company Shevel Trust Lamp Chimney Trust Plate Glass Trust Tuscuit Trust Brewing Trust Tumbler and Woblet American Car and Peny. Company Rubber Trist Ae Electric Trost Standard Out Trust Sarch Trust Wheel Trust Ea Hardware Trust Baidae Trust Shovel Han He Trust Small Supply Trust Hominy Trust Distine Trust Bar Repairs Trust Mark iUanna McAhee Tle Indiane Bar Iron Marion Franklin Brazil Terre Haute Welksen United States Steel Trust

Bitler Medicine and the Retrospective Sheriff Salaries

The article discusses how during the Democratic legislatures of 1869 and 1883 sheriffs clerks and recorders were to be paid fixed salaries from collected fees. The last Republican legislature allegedly enacted a law ensuring full salary payments regardless of actual collections and retroactive to a prior year.

Oddities in Pet Names Highlight Endearing Phrases

A New York Press piece notes quirky terms used for spouses in various cultures. It cites examples from a German general who called his wife day little kernel of coffee and a devoted Walton disciple who nicknamed his wife my dear Pilide spechied trout.

Wernan Narcisse Chaeko Herter Lui Walton Pilide New York Press

Why Razors Get Tired and How to Keep Them Sharp

A barber explains that dull razors are not worn out but clogged with dirt. The edge resembles a fine saw with many teeth. cleaning by dipping in water before use prevents dullness. Lather softens the beard and aids the razor by presenting a firm surface for cutting.

Philadelphia Record

One Oculist Advice Warns Against Self Treatment

The oculist cautions a patient about self diagnosing eye issues after removing a bandage. He warns tea leaf remedies can cause complications and urges hot water with a cloth and optional salt, noting salt is not a true antiseptic for eye care.

New York Press

Bloom of Youth Question at Chemist Shop

A lady seeks bloom of youth at a chemist, recalls toilet cosmetics after shopping. The merchant asks if any bloom of youth remains. An assistant replies with a quiet smile that none may be left. The exchange unfolds with light humor.

London Globe

Spectacles to Restore Vision and Cure a Cold Ad

An old advertisement from J. T. Arter in Laconia promotes spectacles promising to restore youth and fix errors of refracting. Also markets One Day Cold Cure Tubes and Brome Quinine Tablets with EY Grove signature on each box and a 25 cent price.

Yeouth J. T. Arter’s Laconia EY -Grove

Enormous Mushrooms Force Bricks Apart in English Park

Gardeners' Magazine recounts an astonishing growth showing mushrooms pushing bricks aside. In an English park frame, half hardy animals seeded for germination caused cracks, revealing a mass of mushrooms weighing 8 pounds 3 ounces at the wall center with mycelium spreading through mortar and bricks.

Gardeners’ Magazine

Frog Feeding Mysteries Describe Tongue Snaring Insects

The article explains a frog with a large mouth using a rapid tongue strike to capture prey. A guimay fluid coats the tongue causing insects to adhere and be drawn back into the mouth where the jaw snaps shut. Some frogs also feed on larger prey like small fish and mice.

There Are No Friends They Do Exist Be Sure Of It

A philosophical reflective piece urges bold search for friendship and willingness to help others. It contrasts openhearted seekers with those isolated in their own selves and warns against complacency in spinning a lonely, web like fate while pursuing happiness.

Muy

Modesty of Greatness Narrated by Eminent Statesman

The eminent statesman Tivre speaks on his early career with reluctance, noting the place to insert a statement that he dislikes discussing himself. The Chicago Tribune report captures his cautious approach to sharing personal history.

Tivre Chicazu Tribune

Frisch Allegedly Interrogated Over Kitchen Aid Incident

A fragment quotes Flegende Blatter claiming Alyannt instructed him to take what he could find in the kitchen. The dialogue suggests a coercive or coercion minded exchange centered on a kitchen item and an admission by Frisch. The source text is sparse and fragmentary.

Herr Frisch Alyannt

De Witts Witch Hazel Salve Promises Cures

An old testimonial touts DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve as a universal cure for piles and other ailments. A user from Summerton S C Credits the product with curing twenty years of feeding and protruding piles after two boxes, and the ad notes local retailers and laundry drop sites.

DeWitt H. A. Tisdale Summerton S.C. ForBlind Bleedwk Dtehing DeWitts R. AJ Rieky & Son

Dr Miles Remedies Publicize Pain and Liver Pills

Letters praise Dr Miles Anti Pain Pills for relief from neuralgia headache rheumatism and nervous conditions. Customers from Alton Montana Helena report rapid relief and recommend to others The firm advertises the remedies with a free book on nervous and heart diseases from Dr Miles Medical Co Elkhart Indiana.

Miles Harry Dr. Miles James Evertt Alton L. B. Morris Helena Montana

The Pitcher

A dramatic verse recounts a baseball pitcher's methods and the crowd's reactions. The pitcher Mudd wields a rising fastball as the umpire calls balls three, while the batter makes contact and the ball sails past the left field fence in a tense display from Somerville Journal.

Mudd Somerville Journal

Fragmentary rattled dialogue on gloves and hat exchange

A disjointed exchange features Mr Abuffy and a speaker joking about sleepwear gloves and a hat as if in a comic, undefined scene. The fragment lacks clear setting, action, or resolution.

Mighty Cheerful Dorothy Pleads to Play in Wet Weather

A New York Times excerpt shows Dorothy appealing to her mother to let her go outside despite the rain. Mamma, brisk and amused, declines, while Dorothy laments her mother’s cheerfulness about the rule.

Mamma Inabonni Dorothy New York Times

Young lawyer Briody strikes fortune after wreck

The Philadelphia Public Ledger reports Briody, barely admitted to the bar, earned a fortune by representing all forty injured victims in a railroad wreck, collecting damages for every claimant.

Briody Tie Philadelphia Public Ledger

Advantages to the New Generation

A dialogue about gratitude and taste regarding a governor granting a resting place after a father’s labors. The speakers discuss practicality versus good taste and the comfort of the offered residence in Brooklyn Life’s vignette.

Brooklyn

Kindergarten Lessons Prompt Bennie to Seek Recital

A parent child moment is described as Bennie urges his mother to prompt him to recall what he learned at kindergarten. The Chicago Tribune framing hints at a domestic scene about memory and instruction.

Mamma Bennie Chicago Tribune

Thinking Twice Before Speaking Turns to Roast

A humorous remark attributed to a Chicago Post quote about attempting a plan of thinking twice before speaking. The speaker notes the method failed as his wife roasted him before he could say a word.

Chicago Post

Close and Costly Quarrels Over Fashion and Favors

A Baltimore News clipping notes ongoing domestic strife with a remark that one party clings to the other’s coattails and buys lace dresses and imported bonnets, illustrating costly personal tensions.

Ile Baltimore News

Hands and Feet

Quote from the Washington Star recalls a missionary recounting hostile reception as natives reacted violently to attempted civilization efforts. The exchange highlights the dangers and resistance faced by missionaries in colonial encounters.

Washington Star

Graduation Parade Echoes In Wedding Music Scene

A Cleveland Plain Dealer note highlights a graduation ceremony where the graduates march in step and the wedding music from Lohengrin plays by the orchestra, capturing a ceremonial mood.

Love's Anaesthetic. Her Mamima

A short dialogue from the Boston Globe features a mother astonished that her daughter allowed a man to kiss her. The daughter insists she did not suffer, prompting a tense exchange on propriety and consent.

Boston Globe

Always Broke Blobs Stayadappe Remind Commandments

The Philadelphia Record notes a joke about being always broke, comparing the Blobs to the Ten Commandments in a humorous dialogue.

Stardappe Biobbs Philadelphia

Feline Suggestion Could Improve Gown Fit

A letter notes a woman unhappy with a gown fit and suggests asking another woman to wear it. The writer signs as Life and mentions Kay letting someone else model the gown. The tone is playful and intimate.

English Injustice in Irish Tale of Distance and Heartbreak

An Australian tourist in western Ireland asks an old woman for the distance to the nearest town. She laments that five miles stood two years ago, but English soldiers with chains lengthened it to seven, saying their hearts are broken and they must walk on.

Ireland

The Actor Must Forget His Audience Says Judge

The exchange centers on an actor’s focus and the judge notes that it is harder to forget having an audience than to forget not having one. Lhosefus argues actors should immerse their souls in lines and forget the crowd. Horatio Tiewalker adds a sharper twist about the lack of an audience posing its own challenge.

Alex Miller & Co Lhosefus Tie Horatio Tiewalker

Plank Bridge Collapse Report Cited In Dialogue

A cartoon caption recounts a mock incident aboard a ship where officers describe marching over a plank bridge that gave way and caused men to fall in. The exchange notes actions taken, including ordering fall out.

Unlucky Mirror Sparks Superstitious Talk

A Baltimore item notes Mrs Gotrox shattered a French plate mirror yesterday and claims bad luck follows. The piece highlights the mirror’s value at $400, framing the incident with a wink about superstition.

New Tower Rising at M. E. Church in Laconia

A note reports a tower construction underway at the M. E. church in Laconia. The project, described briefly, marks ongoing church improvements in the town.

M. E Laconia

Wyandotte Visitors At the Cave Chronicle

Cort W. Kintner reports a busy week with numerous visitors to the Wyandotte cave. H W Rothrock, Cleveland Rainbolt, Denton Frank, Ray Jack, Dr Laughlin and wife, Benj Hannel and family, Q O Mayenheimer, KK Carter, Mrs J W Pritchard, Miss Georgia Elliot, W T Whitcomb and twenty-one Leavenworth residents, Miss Camille Miller, Mrs R H Willett, Miss Nellie Willet, Miss Aileen Weathers, and G W Himmelheber with daughter Emma all noted as visiting Wyandotte and White Cloud friends or the cave this week.

Cleveland Rainbolt Denton Frank Ray Jack Dr. Laughlin New Amsterdam Benj. Hannel Near Corydon QO. J. Mayenheimer Meansville KK. Carter Louisville J. W. Pritchard Georgia Elliot Bedford W. T. Whitcomb Leavenworth Camille Miller Dleavenworth Sylvia Sharp R. H. Willett Nellie Willett Aileen Weathers New Albany G. W. Himmelheber Emma Lockport Wyandotte White Cloud

Webster Township Notice of Tax Deadline 1905

Notice states all taxes in Webster township must be paid on or before August 5 1905. Jaca Voor Trustee signs as authority.

Webster Township Jaca Voor

Money on easy terms on first mortage

SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION feb 1 tf You Know What You Are Taking When you take moves TASTELESS CHILL Tonic because the formula is plainly written on every bottle showing that it is simply Tonic and Quinine In tasteless form No Cure No Pay. 50c feb 1 ly

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Lorydon Democrat Editors and Proprietors Bitler Medicine Cat Pig Freraeh Luckett’s Pitcher Abuffy Kay Owellest Corydon Cluett NEW Furniture John E. McKinster Cory Don, Ind V. TH. Bullett Hez Luckett V. . Bullett Hez. Luckett Rose Keller S. Pfrimmer William Ridley Magstrate Grover London Joubet Cort W. Kintner H. W. Rothrock Mortegage Savings & Looan Association
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