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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1900
Page
7
A grizzled king contemplates his passage beyond life at the river of death. The crowd wonders if courage and relics define his bridge, while the dying world fades and old memories rise as the sole voices in his dreams.
Jean, a handsome dormitory favorite at Harper University, aids Kate Lennox during a smallpox scare and endures facial pitting from the illness. Two months later George Lockwood returns the ring Jean once wore, and she accepts anew, keeping their bond intact despite scars and change.
Helen Caddick, among the few white women exploring central Africa, recounts a pleasure trip from Zambesi to the great lakes. Her cotton blouses were washed and ironed by a native helper using a ground mat and foot-rubbing method, producing a surprisingly smooth result.
A display at the National Museum in Washington features Cromwell's pocket Bible given to every soldier to carry in a heart pocket of the waistcoat. The note compares it to a bride's belief that her photo inspires steady advancement, like the boy in Excelsior.
The preacher in Norway extols grace as salt like the Bible’s vivid similes. It nourishes the soul, preserves virtue, and renews life, likening divine grace to abundant salt deposits, a life necessity, and a cleansing beacon amid suffering. It urges earnest search, endurance, and mutual comfort.
The text presents a preacher's view on the Jews shaping world culture and Christianity through figures like Moses, Peter, Paul, and Christ. It pairs this with reflections from Rev Father Mahony and Rev Dr Ilillis on desire versus complacency and the dangers of overemphasized environment, urging inner power and humility.
A compact collection of maxims attributed to Sa ville Oh Dewey Penn and D H Aughey. The quotes emphasize humility sympathy charitable action and scientific restraint. The piece presents brief reflections on virtue knowledge and magnetism.
The Chicago Chronicle notes electric lighting reduces gas lamp lighters. In 1887 Chicago had 400 lamp-lighters. today 3,500 arc lights glow with few workers needed. Still about 18,500 gas lamps remain, with roughly 200 lighters employed, while gasoline lamps in outlying districts also decline. The city plans to expand electric lighting using Lockport drainage power.
Willie Woodard Relates a Louisville track tale where a Central Kentucky owner wins a selling race with a home-bred horse. After the win the auctioneer announces a $300 bid, prompting the trainer to exclaim that they never bid and to keep the purse, as they do not want to keep the horse.
A rich man in China can hire many servants without paying wages while the common people must pay good wages. Even so servants are hard to obtain as rich employers can offer perquisites worth more than triple ordinary wages.
The Pennsylvania Railway will not hire new employees who have passed age 35. The company introduces a new pension system that necessitates this policy.
Report describes avalanche survivors hearing voices and shouts from rescuers above them as they lie buried, with communication breaking through several feet of snow.
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