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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1901
Page
7
A poem from American Agriculturist reflecting on sunset over a farm. The speaker longs for home as daylight fades and toil ends, with images of partridge, redbird, sheep, and mountains at dusk. The verse contrasts weariness with returning love and rest at the gate.
In a New York News style tale aboard the Vanguard Ned Grayling Audley unveils his plan to woo Cora Marvin, Captain Marvin's daughter promised to Audley, and earns the captain’s wary consent after a bluffing standoff amid ships, letters, and duel threats.
James R Keene, born in England in 1808 and a longtime Wall Street powerhouse, has built and shattered fortunes since 1877. A rival of Jay Gould, he made a fortune in mining and stock speculation, survived crashes, and amid wheat corners and tobacco moves now reportedly holds about 12 million dollars in wealth.
A sermon arguing that true measure comes from God weighing the spirits, not earthly wealth or fame. It contrasts human charity and faith with divine weighing, urges perseverance and moral discipline, and envisions a future where gospel values weigh heavier than material riches. The piece links national destiny to moral standards and cites historical weighing as a metaphor for spiritual judgment.
The piece notes McGee and a line of anthropologists tracing man’s place in nature from lower forms. It discusses physical similarities, mental parallels with lower animals, and the shift toward development sequences, ending with a humorous child dialogue about making a head versus a whole baby.
Prof McGee argues that anthropology trends toward mental as well as physical evolution, placing man closer to a higher prototype within the animal kingdom and narrowing the gap between instinctual savages and scientific statesmen.
In a Philadelphia asylum certain apartments are designated as death by own action rooms. They are built round with no knobs, gas fixtures, or inward doors. Beds have no projections, edges are rounded, and clothing is removed to prevent self harm. Doors open outward and keepers patrol all night.
Jorker and Munnyseeker trade quips over an engagement failing due to the fiances father. Munnyseeker attributes the break to the father as the blamed party in a brief Tendon Tidbits.
Dialogue quotes a humorous exchange between Mrs Meddergrass and Mr Meddergrass about Rooshians. The Baltimore Archive snippet notes the claim that many Rooshians are ignorant and jokes about needing intelligence to understand their language.
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