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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1899
Page
6
Fragmentary OCR text mentions various disconnected phrases and names about services and people, but lacks a coherent news item or clear events to summarize into a full card. No verifiable entities or actions to anchor a proper headline or summary.
Assessment of 10 percent on stock of defunct Bank of Illinois of Chicago follows perceived mismanagement. Comptroller Dawes orders payment from stockholders amounting to original value while estimating asset deficiency at 1.2 million dollars. Names of stockholders to repay into the bank to cover losses are promised.
The article discusses how under constitutional interpretation volunteers enlisted before April may be kept in service until peace with Spain is proclaimed. It notes potential extension for up to 65,000 additional volunteers authorized, delaying discharge until treaty ratifications are exchanged.
A derailed OCR snippet notes volunteers and staff officers under a March 20 act. Secretary Ager mentions 65,000 new volunteers authorized, with potential six month retention. It implies calls for reenlistment as peace efforts loom, warning of evils facing the public and the need to defend the nation.
A heated private meeting of a Protestant assembly in Paterson ended with interruptions as Rev. Mr. Gantlaway of Third Presbyterian Church confronted a fellow speaker. Hisses filled the room and a speaker walked out amid turmoil as order broke down.
Crowd surge at the Gym pave Theater in Liege France during an emotional drama caused women and children to be crushed. A woman screamed leading to a chaotic rush for doors and balcony stairs where several persons fell over the railings and were seriously hurt. Several women and children died in the crush. The cause was a baseless alarm.
The Agriculture Department Friday issued a crop report showing wheat in farmers hands on March 1 at about 20.2 percent of last year’s 108,008,000 bushels. Corn in farmers hands totals roughly 690,500,000 bushels, 41.06 percent of last year’s 782,800,000. Oats remaining in farm hands reach about 283,000,000 bushels, 38.7 percent, with shipments abroad around 396,060,000 bushels or 20.6 percent of the total crop.
Copious rain in California is expected to add millions to the fruit harvest. Six more regiments are to be sent to Manila to reinforce General Otis. Smuggling proofs found by American officials at Yavana amid the blockade. In remodeling the House, a forum is proposed in front of the Speaker’s desk for member speeches.
The annual Treasury report for year ending June 30 1898 shows exports at 1 236 587 569 and imports at 646 977 435 the largest trade surplus in years. After offsetting imports the balance due the United States is 839 610 134 yet gold receipts from other nations fell short by 534 624 549. How did the US receive only 104 985 285 in gold against 639 610 154 due last year.
The excerpt criticizes the move to resume gold payments, denounces demonetization of silver, and blames policy shifts for rising indebtedness and social distress. It contrasts the Republican platform's protectionist aims with Congress’s actual actions, implying a betrayal of workers and producers. It warns of continued debt-driven decline.
The article argues the U.S. is deeply indebted to Europe, totaling about six billion dollars in bonds and mortgages. It claims foreign capital funds American industry, driving a large, persistent foreign debt and trade imbalances. It blames British financiers for postwar debt foundations and critiques Congress on revenue, reciprocity, and foreign policy.
An article recounts two forms of generosity. It contrasts a modern sovereign gifting diamonds to an empress with a past episode where Kaiser Wilhelm I anonymously aided a Black Forest couple in Baden Baden. A shopkeeper discreetly handed them a package saying “By the will of the kaiser.”
A learned professor argues laughter arises from the degradation of dignified persons or interests under gravity, revealing our own inconsistencies. People laugh involuntarily when they notice weakness or pettiness in someone respected, or when trivial errors occur in solemn events.
The U S Revelving Ship Vermont, past fifty years old, has educated over 1 000 000 sailors, with age and achievements likened to Hostetter s Stomach Bitters which has aided many with malaria fever and ague dyspepsia and indigestion over fifty years.
Bloomsburg’s brass band faded after a presidential campaign season of unusual success. A leader recalls a last meeting showed only ten dollars in treasury, one dollar per member, prompting a split and the band’s dissolution as they could not handle prosperity.
Spring winds clear bad air but the ad touts Hood’s Sarsaparilla as a spring medicine that cleanses the blood and treats scrofula kidney disease liver troubles rheumatism and related ailments. Testimonials cite Michael Boyle J B Emerton and Arnie Rocert praising relief and renewed strength.
The French caricaturist Forain said depravity does not exist. He argued depravity is a disease of the nerves at the top and caused by hunger at the bottom, expressing disdain for the concept.
The piece notes Eva Nansen, wife of the Arctic explorer Fridtjof Nansen, is a renowned singer in her native country. She retired from the concert stage after her husband grew wealthy from his book and lectures. It mentions a night sleep tip about air flow and a remedy, St Jacobs Ol, for neuralgia.
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