Advertising Terms and Civic Outlook in Corydon
The piece outlines advertising rates and policies in Corydon Indiana dated Monday March 25, 1868, noting charges for local notices and legal ads. It discusses Harrison County Agricultural Society premiums for a best stallion and critiques town governance, urging timely subscription and enforcement to improve public order. It ends by praising John Lane and Ralph Lane’s firm, their groceries, confectionaries, and forthcoming harness goods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrison County Agricultural Society
Messrs
Lane & Ralph
John Lane
Corydon
Lane
Judge Chase Criticized for Refusing Partisan Duty
The Standard laments Judge Chase for not bowing to party pressures as Chief Justice. It mocks the idea of integrity under party guillotine and then shifts to local notes on spring farming, Corydon manufacturing efforts, and VD Tuell offering plows and carriages. It also advertises Goory's Lady's Book for April and features the Rus t ie Belle steel plate and fashion engravings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Standard
Judge Chase
United States
Republican Party
Corydon
VD. S. Tuell
Goory
Telegraph Workers Set a Post At Her Door
An elderly resident along a Louisville telegraph line bursts into hasty alarm when she learns workmen dig a hole to set a telegraph post. She fears the device will reveal all her neighbors' business and vows to move away to escape the nuisance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisville
Creation
Nateral
Don't Slop Over and Reach the Top in Life
A reflective poem on effort and restraint urging steady progress without overreaching. It contrasts persistence with caution and ends with a cautionary note about balancing ambition and patience. Washington Irving quoted on marriage and idealized happiness follows the moral across aging and family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gen'rally
Impeachment Opinions and Local Furniture Adeltas
Macsaulay notes impeachment lacks confidence in peers impartiality amid a Washington trial. The piece connects strong critique of impeachment to current events. Also promotes William Danner furniture from the Public Square with self-made, durable wares and a reference to his ad elsewhere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Macsaulay
Warren Eastings
Washington
Goop Fronnstone
William Danner
Why the President is to be impeached
A political piece argues for Andrew Johnson's impeachment listing charges from radicals. It cites alleged constitutional disputes and claims the Union’s status and racial equality are central issues. The writer mocks the Radical Republicans, criticizing their past and present actions and the cost to the public.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cory O'Lanus
Andrew Johnson
Radical Party
Andy Johnson
Congress
United States
Alabama
Olive
Boy Votes After Father Challenges Age at Polls
A New York election tale describes a boy declaring he is twenty one and voting while his father, opposed to the choice, tries to block him at the ballot box. The father demands proof of age, but the youth quips that he was present as well, effectively securing his vote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Bob
Onions End a Quarrel in a Rural Lesson
A newly married country lass reads a moral about reconciliation then tries the same trick on her husband Billy. After a day of work and nagging comments, sheoffers a kiss as a peace offering but Billy’s roused temper leads to a fall and a comic outburst about the “darned swill barrel.” The onions’ effect ends the tale with a note that she repeats no such remedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Souime
Washington Irving
Billy
Sue
Bill
Vengeance over clothes and a tailor to his widow
A dialogue recalls an evening party misadventure where a jealous lover purchases a costly suit. the tailor is implicated in a chain of fate as the speaker vows to repay the debt by forcing a marriage for his widow. The trial of Jeff Davis, set for March, is postponed to April.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jeff. Davis
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B. P. Douglass
Corydon, Ind
Giress
Queensware
Croceries
Harrison County
Grey
Rae Very Bowes
Ben S. P. Douglass
Lublic Square
Carrasa
Leonard Keller Cy
Casa Prichs
L&a
Leonard Keller
W. Shaw & Son, Merchant Tailors and Dealers
Singer
Main Street
Depauw
New Albany
Ind
W H. Ward
Pepauw House
Jacob Deutsch
Indiana
Hardware & Greensware
Osters, Sarocnes
Novi
Jacob Dectsecil
Andrew Castlen
John S. Brig
Castlen & Briggs
Steel Iron and Nars
Niso
Pearl St
New Albany, Ind
Shoes Queens Jn
ANG
Dad Irons
Oquastoch
Glasswar
Corydon Heworvat
AMZ WW
Brewster
Corydon, Indiana
Marcie
Altorney
Gie County
Menas
Corydon Morais
Jewett’s Court
Beyer
Reynolds
Wedge Chase
Dot
Tyles
Radical History
Bona
Tom
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