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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1899
Page
6
Seventy five new graves mark one of Missouri’s worst storms. Kirksville suffered heavy fatalities and widespread damage as hospitals and shelters cared for more than two hundred injured residents.
A collage of editorials and dispatches from multiple papers praising General Funston and denouncing delays in peace terms after a war. Mentions Aguinaldo surrender and Otis terms, with references to the cyclone in Wirksville and heroism attributed to Funston.
Rear Admiral John C. Watson ordered to proceed to Manila to relieve Admiral Dewey as commander in chief of the Asiatic station. Watson will not join the Philippine commission. Dewey will remain in Manila until the commission completes its work. The decision follows Admiral Dewey’s expressed desire to return to the United States.
Report recalls a trial of a gun cotton shell loaded with a special fuse by Lewis Gathmann at Sandy Hook. The shell survived a high pressure blast, showing gun cotton can be used with limited danger and that safety features improve naval munitions. Also notes long coal reserves in Jeuzland and North America, and a Jasper County Missouri mineral land deed filing for 344000 dollars.
A collage of editorials and comments from multiple papers criticizing team performance and management. References include New York, Pittsburg, St. Louis, Brooklyn, Boston, Philadelphia, and Baltimore columns, all noting poor teamwork, questionable management, and financial interests shaping play.
Multiple editorials praise wireless telegraphy as a major scientific advance with practical commercial potential. They note its timely arrival, potential to aid industry, and prompt concern from telegraph managers. Other items mock or comment on public figures and current events of the day.
The article notes strict Japanese etiquette where adults and children must be seen but not heard at table as silence signals good breeding. Foreigners like General Grant may breach this norm with allowances, while natives rarely attend the emperor’s presence. It also mentions titles for artisans and the Japanese focus on death anniversaries over birthdays.
An account describes a dreadini sword granting lethal power to its holder and a panic as people flee the approaching Hostelsel verms, with a claimed remedy for stomach ailments.
Hanover announces a program to establish lectures and demonstrations for artisans and apprentices across trades. The model workshops will showcase tools and machinery and teach bookkeeping and estimating with aims to extend higher instruction empire wide starting with cabinet makers locksmiths shoemakers and tailors followed by other trades.
Round trip nickel plate fare to Roannize Wa for the Annual Meeting of the German Hope Uist Brethren. Tickets on sale May 16 to Und and good returning until June 24. For details address C A Asterling Traveling Passenger Agent Fort Wayne Indiana.
A brief quotation notes He Helex profiting from others’ mistakes and a woman tiring of George Crixton as he fails to know when to leave. The Cleveland Leader framing hints at a satirical or opinion item about social behavior and accountability.
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