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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1917
Page
2
Public notice announces ad rates of 15 cents per inch and 5 cents per line for single insertions with a special standing-rate option for campaigns longer than three months upon application.
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The article lauds Woodrow Wilson for resisting Wall Street influence and steering U S policy through the Mexican and European crises. It argues that the war is shifting Europe toward republican government while monarchies fall, predicting democracy will triumph. It highlights Wilson as a defender of liberty and peace amid global upheaval.
The article lauds President Wilson after the Supreme Court upholds the Adamson eight hour law. It notes Charles Evans Hughes, a former Republican candidate, attacked the law and that his stance is weakened by the ruling. The piece extols Wilson as a great leader likely to be remembered among history’s top presidents.
Jacob Roudenbush born April 15 1844 in Vaden Germany died March 12 1917 at 73 years 11 months 12 days. He came to America at age eight with his parents and settled on a family farm. He married Anna Buchter in 1874 and had nine children six living plus eighteen grandchildren and two siblings. Funeral held at Zoar by Rev Egger with interment nearby. The bereaved family notes a Saturday April 7 gathering offering a chance to win a free sewing machine by J L Rowe & Sons.
Indiana's 70th General Assembly closed with three landmark measures a state-wide prohibition limited women's suffrage and a call for a constitutional convention. The session also enacted highway laws dissolved state legal counsel posts and numerous local and tax changes shaping state policy and governance.
A summary of Senate action shows bills approved across topics including Oakland City college official acts, loan company director rules, Gary superior court setup, pleadings wording simplification, beneficiary designation for contestants in wills, temporary school board loans, workers compensation provisions, railroad freight house proximity to schools or churches, limits on county attorneys before county commissioners, designation of Monument Place as Monument Circle, and mortgage expiration provisions. The list notes amendments and specific scopes per bill.
A list of proposed laws is summarized showing items like road funding from counties to rail stations, school crossing stops, va cation of dilapidated dwellings by health officers, state swamp lands sales for drainage, county library establishment, circuses licenses, consolidation of town and township schools, and library board appointments when towns and townships jointly own a library.
The Senate reports multiple vetoed bills: one on releasing mechanics and labor liens if not pursued within a year, another to merge Warrick and Perry Spencer circuits, a third to require petitions by a township vote majority for changing township lines, a fourth legalizing questionable township warrants on school funds, a fifth establishing an additional superior court in Vigo County, all vetoed by Governor McCray.
Joint resolutions report that Robertson declines to accept land gifted to the state from the estate of William Bower in Jackson County. The land is deemed unsuitable for an agricultural experiment station and the measure outlines reasons for rejection.
A concurrent resolution urges passage of a U S senate bill to erect a monument over William Henry Harrison's burial site at North Bend Ohio. It calls for copies to Indiana senators and representatives and certified copies to Illinois Michigan Minnesota and Wisconsin governors and state legislatures.
A proposal to appropriate 350000 dollars for the Indiana University School of Medicine was rejected by the governor amid budget dispute. The move affects expansion plans and state support for medical education in Indiana.
The undersigned will sell at public auction at her residence about three miles southeast of Laneaville in Franklin township on Tuesday April 10 1917 the following personal property including work horses cows hogs machinery wagons tools and household goods. Sale begins 9 A M with lunch on the grounds Terms cash for sums up to 500 and credit nine months on larger amounts with promissory notes and surety.
Five year old black general purpose mare offered for sale at a reasonable price. Contact Mrs. E. V. McIntosh for details.
In Harrison County Indiana the case Hess vs Miller and Miller pursues foreclosure. Plaintiff by attorney Vogt notifies non resident defendants John Edward Miller and Anna B Miller to appear by May 7 1917 at Corydon Court House to answer or demur otherwise the complaint will be heard in their absence.
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