24 May 1870
Page 1
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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1870
Page
1
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The page shows local advertising rates for notices and legal ads, notes about bond debt arguments, and miscellaneous items including a farmer anecdote with a cat and rat, a San Francisco flower meditation, and humorous exchange about a cowcatcher train stop.
A comic tale set in Ireland recounts a visit to a Protestant parson and a dairy maid. To avoid discovery the narrator hides in a churn as the parson and wife burst in to churn cream. Buckets spill, a prank yields the line the devil was in the butter milk, and the couple flee. A separate joke follows about a crooked mouth remark in a public house.
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