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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1905
Page
2
The Corydon Indiana based Garadean Democrat established 1856 lists editors Thomas and Ellis. Rate card shows subscription options by year and half year and a post office entry as second class matter. Advertising rates include display at ten cents per inch and readers at five cents per line with special rates for long standing ads.
A farmer criticizes market exchange and grocers profits while discussing national power, isolation, and trust issues. He cites presidential restraint on strikes and foreign policy, then notes lawyers’ role in trusts, highlighting a Columbia City address urging conscience in law and questioning lawyers’ duty.
The article surveys Indiana claims about New Harmony and its pivotal role in social reform, education, and science. It highlights origins of the academy, manual training, kindergarten, public schools, women’s rights, printing innovations, and Carnegie libraries tied to Indiana and Posey County.
The piece touts Oklahoma wealth doubling over fourteen years to about four hundred million dollars with a population near six hundred fifty thousand and around three hundred banks. It highlights eastern Oklahoma fruit output, rainfall around forty inches, and year round work. It invites investors to contact George Marton for pamphlets on business chances and lists various opportunities from small stores to manufacturing plants.
L A Riely and Son promote Hyomei as a preventive or cure for hay fever. Daily treatment for two to three weeks before pollen season is advised, with six to seven inhalations daily if symptoms appear. No stomach dosing, medicated air reaches all air cells, outfit costs 1 dollar, extra bottles 50 cents, guaranteed refund if unsatisfied.
A roll of honor lists subscribers and payments since the last report. Names include Taylor Arnold Corydon George Hoehn Fowler Elizabeth Capt. J. Brown Front Royal Edward Reitz Corydon Lula Kopp Elizabeth Catherine Walk New Salisbury Frank Watson Corsi & Lee Snyder Lewis Wan and many others across Indiana and nearby states.
A vintage remedy touts Kennedy’s Laxative Honey and Tar as a cough and cold cure. It claims to ease coughs, croup, and whooping cough by stimulating the bowels and strengthening lungs throat and chest without opiates. Sold by all druggists.
Offer for a good five to two story house and stables within two blocks of the court house in a very desirable location. A bargain for someone who acts in the next few weeks. Inquiries to 07, 93.
Fragmentary text references a county board order, a regular session, sealed property, a travel roads matter, and named individuals including David Charley and FRAN I WATSON. Details are garbled with several illegible phrases and mis-spellings, preventing clear reconstruction of event, date, or outcome.
A male resident over twenty one of Elizabeth Posey township Harrison county Indiana applies to the Harrison county Board of Commissioners at Corydon for a license to retail spirits wine malt and intoxicating liquors in a two story Main Street building described in Elizabeth with a front on Main Street and a room measuring about 14 by 22 feet. He also seeks to sell cigars and tobacco in connection with the business.
Notice to Bridgeport Posey Township Harrison County citizens that a petition will be presented to the board of commissioners at the next session opening August first to recall and sell intoxicating liquors on premises described as the northeast lower room of the two story frame building on lot 60 Bridge Street Bridgeport Posey Township. George Fulner.
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