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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1900
Page
6
Miss Carrie Duncan aged 19 vanished before her June 4 marriage announcement to Alfred Higgins 51. She later telephoned from Louisville to say she would visit friends before marrying Fred Higgins, son of Alfred Higgins. The family learned she and Fred Higgins wed after a letter from Great Band, Kansas.
Storms across Indiana caused widespread destruction. Union City reports the Odd Fellows hall demolished and Gertrude Sipe struck by lightning. Knightstown sees Charles Estell killed while Horace Pardin and a farm hand are found unconscious with dead horses. Linton, Cambridge City, North Manchester, Greenfield also report deaths, crop damage, and property loss.
Ernest Roulet of New Albany receives parole from the Indiana reformatory after serving time for stealing a key. He inherits 6600 from his Swiss mother who died, with a draft for the sum included. Roulet fled home youth, came to the United States after his mother remarried, and previously served time in Indianapolis for taking a friend’s belongings during drinking, with release due to good conduct.
The Indiana Supreme Court reviews a dispute between Manufacturers' Gas and Oil Co and Indiana Natural Gas and Oil Co over the legality of pumping gas from wells. Appeals from Grant County Civil Court question whether gas companies may use pumps along the trenches to extract gas to towns and fields, amid unsettled legal interpretations.
The Twelve-pot Houingerd City window glass works, independent of the trust, is forced to close during a heat-driven stoppage. The shutdown will extend to September. Mr. Ustrrle gave each cutter flatteners drawers and gatherers $10 stock blocks with future dividends in addition to wages.
A crowded docket of local news items notes sixteen smallpox cases in Anderson with a reported decrease, plus incidents across Indiana including drownings, road improvements, jail violence, arson suspicions, and a large creditor assignment for Joseph Dunlap with assets around 65,000 and liabilities about 32,000.
Mrs Annie Thourson of South Hot Springs Arkansas shares a ten year battle with female weakness including leucorrhea womb inflammation and severe cramps. After doctors failed she used Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash, reports weight gain restored strength and daily life, claiming the medicine saved her and she would recommend it to all women.
In a reflective portrait, the text argues spies differ in nature and valor. It recalls Lord Kitchener entering Sudan covertly as an unarmed agent, disguising himself as a peddler, witnessing a brutal torture, and carrying cyanide as a fearsome reminder of death.
A mother chastises her son for touching the preserves without asking. The boy replies that he wanted some, highlighting a simple clash over boundaries and communication in daily life. The exchange underscores parental guidance about asking first and respecting rules.
From Sweden comes a proposal to raise domestic postage for foreign mails. The Baltimore American notes the plan aims to simplify pricing, arguing most mail inside the country already circulates internationally.
In Outing, men test a wooden rod with a tile-like weight and a reed tail called a wichi wichi, racing the piece along level ground for long distances. The hulawalla, a fish-shaped wood on a string, warns women during the sacred born dance and its noise travels miles. violating this leads to dire punishment.
Advertisement for Peabody Medical Institute offering free postpaid copy of Know Thyself and The Science of Life with 370 pages, engravings, and prescriptions. Paper cover 25c, library edition 1.00. Address No 4 Bulfinch St Boston to obtain keys to health and vigor.
The Chapel-en-le-Frith parish church in Derbyshire has kept the sexton role in one family since 1631. The latest sexton Joseph Bramwell died and was buried in a vault with eight predecessors, including a sexton who served fifty two years.
Grain-O is advertised as a coffee substitute made from pure grains with a rich mocha like color. It claims to be safe for children and adults, easy on delicate stomachs, and priced at 34 the price of coffee per package 1s 6d and 2s 6d with broad grocery availability.
A brief Indianapolis Journal note features a humorous dispute over whether to repair a cuckoo clock. One side urges immediate fixing while the other argues to wait, with the line about not cheating a bird out of the pleasantest month in the year underscoring the light local flavor.
An early 1900s ad compiles medicine pitches and quips, including Hall's Catarrh Cure priced at 73 cents, Piso's Cure for Consumption praised by N W Samuel of Ocean Grove, and brief asides on daily births worldwide plus a Red Cross ball ad and a pithy moral.
William Quigley of Brooklyn recovers a $9 debt originally from Henry Darragh for line running to the British ship Bandaneira in August 1899. Quigley bought the chance to collect it, shipped the bill via San Francisco to Shanghai, London, Glasgow, and finally received the draft in April after endorsements, netting a liberal profit.
A Nuremberg merchant has devised a boot with a built in heel unit to heat the entire shoe. The device promises warmth for wearers in cold conditions, suggesting practical use for daily footwear.
A will awarded an annuity of 400 pounds yearly until the wife was buried. After death the husband had her body embalmed and sealed in a glass case, placed in an upper chamber, and kept there for thirty years with no entry allowed to the room.
On the first and third Tuesdays of June July and August the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad offers Homeseekers Excursion tickets to southern states including Alabama Arkansas Florida Georgia Indian Territory Kentucky Louisiana Mississippi Missouri North Carolina South Carolina Tennessee and Texas. One fare plus 2.00 for the round trip with 15 day outbound limit and 21 day return limit and stops in Homeseekers Territory. A new wide vestibubled train runs Chicago to Waco and Fort Worth Texas daily at 1 50 p m with Pullman sleeping cars and free reclining chair cars. Contact any agent or Co L Stone G P and T A Chicago.
An advert proclaims Cascarets candy cathartic cures various ailments by regulating bowels with no pain. It touts a 10 cent starter price and metal boxed tablets stamped C C C, warning against imitations and noting Chicago as the origin. A wedding dialogue fragment follows about choosing a wedding journey and visiting the same place twice.
An 19th century style ad notes Lane's Family Medicine improves digestion and liver kidney function, cures sick headache, priced at 25 and 5c, presented in a period Ladies' Home Journal excerpt. The passage also offers social guidance on guest duties and tactful help with housework.
An old time classified style ad promotes Allen's Foot-Ease powder to ease tight new shoes and cure corns bunions and sweaty feet. Available at druggists and shoe stores two cents. Free sample offered by Allen S. Olmsted LeRoy New York.
Berlin ranks as one of Europe’s most cosmopolitan cities. As the German capital, only about 37 percent of its residents are German by birth, highlighting a diverse population.
The notice promotes a quick healthful dessert called Jeil O prepared in two minutes with hot water to cool. Flavors include Lemon Orange Raspberry and Strawberry and it suggests availability at grocers priced at 1d.
Frank S. Black, once Governor of New York, started his career as an office boy in a Troy, New York, newspaper establishment, marking the humble beginning of a future state leader.
An 19th century classified style ad promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure as a constitutional remedy priced at 75 cents. It also touts Red Cross Ball Blue at five cents for a large package and Air Cushion Rubber Stamps sold cheaply. The ad includes literary quotes and directs readers to send orders to Luck Box 219 in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Justice Lenaghlin of the Supreme Court Buffalo orders permanent injunctions with costs and full accounting of sales against Paul B Hudson and a Brooklyn retail dealer. The ruling protects Allen B Olmstead owner of the Foot Ease trademark from infringing copies and similar preparations. The decision upholds the trademark and warns more suits against other infringers.
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