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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1899
Page
7
The readable content is highly garbled with many misspellings and incomplete phrases. No clear person, organization, place, date, or event can be determined for a factual summary.
In a dramatic chain of letters linked to George Ferguson, a forged note stirred family trouble until a second confession disclosed a planned bridge demolition. A Clinton electrician used hot wire to sever spans of the 1833 bridge, dropping it piece by piece without harming piers, with a final signature from Wesley Lugintare.
A 70 foot Wabash River bridge at Inton Indiana was wrecked in August by a Tos liber using heating power of electricity. The toll bridge was the state’s only such structure and owned by a single man. County authorities planned a steel replacement using the same piers. the owner must remove the superstructure within specific days.
A father and son ride through a one horse town sharing a cryptic exchange about a horsefly that follows like a single horse. The boy muses about naming it a one horse town while the father warns against overthinking.
A New York man states he shot Merancup in the Adirondacks claiming a catch of forty five trout in its stomach with none under a pound.
A description of the Morrell river floating bridge in Prince Edward Island notes its raft like central span and end anchored sections. Crossing causes swaying and potential drift downstream, with water sometimes washing over timbers during floods or high tides. In winter the bridge is ice bound and stable, though crossing is unnecessary on the solid ice.
The sermon likens the hunted to a stag panting for water, urging readers to seek divine consolation rather than fight adversity. It cites biblical imagery of deer and waters, counsel to shed burdens, and notes how hardship often follows the virtuous, ending with a call to endurance and faith.
A sermon blends biblical imagery with references to Nimrod and Joblike trials. It contrasts earthly chase and heavenly rest, likening faith to a chariot a throne or a lake, and argues that God’s comfort frees from bondage. It cites Trevelarion and quotes Rev. Dr. Lyman on American Christianity and just war theory.
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