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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1902
Page
3
A dream vision at a vast exposition contrasts worldly purchases with spiritual wealth. Shoppers trade deeds, wheat, and goods for tokens of salvation while a banker city of souls reveals rewards for discernment. The dream urges bearing fruit and warns of unspent balances.
Rev Pearse Pinch argues the ten commandments place religion before duties to others. He warns irreligion dulls moral perception, risks replacing faith with harmful superstition, and asserts religion must be free but central to healthy life. He concludes every person should attend to religion as the first duty.
The article argues that Jesus chose twelve missionaries, not apostles, and that using missionary in Bible translations would unite churches. It urges adopting new translations to refresh understanding and leadership, condemning reliance on the King James Version as a sealed book. Rev. T. B. Slicer of New York is cited.
Article describes Dr. Sylvester’s visual telephony method using a mirror and phosphorescent vapor enabling a caller to see the distant room and person when a white sheet is placed before the mirror. He has tested several times and awaits government purchase before full exhibit.
In a Philippine outpost tale, Wade and Osbourne face a deadly night. They gamble with death by drawing straws to decide who lights a match. Wade dies. Osbourne reflects on their choice and his own fate.
Charles McIntyre of Marion, believed dead for ten years, is found in Buffalo North Carolina by Lewis Collings. He is a former confectionery company salesman engaged to Lillie Massey, kept abstinent for almost a year, and plans to return to Marion in September to claim his former fiancée. Collier arsenic poisoning case in Bedford involves Mrs Mary Collier and multiple others. husband Martin Collier arrested.
Minnie Masterton, wife of James Masterson, was killed in New Albany. Masterson, jailed on charges, claims innocence. He says they were returning from Louisville when a man emerged from behind a post and shot at them, Minnie cried out, and three shots rang out. Masterson says two shots struck him, one hitting his arm as he was wounded and arrested.
In Kokomo a funeral procession for John Windigler was disrupted when a horse driven by Blanche Morgan and Lavinia Osler bolted after cars. Mrs Osler died from a curb impact, Miss Morgan broke a leg, fireman Ellsworth Wells was badly injured, and cabman Omer Downey sustained serious injuries.
Five freight cars rolling down a steep grade collapsed a heavy two engine train on a high trestle near Georgetown, sending cars engines and bridgework plunging sixty five feet to the ground.
Reports include Josiah Dunkelbarger’s death from carbolic acid, sugar creek fishing disputes, Chesterfield spiritualists expanding grounds, Liberty spoke and wheel factory plans for fifty jobs, and J H Bearly robbed near Greenfield. Fatal accidents occur at Peru steel mills and Rochester eye injury. Gas finds at Princeton, suicides in Terre Haute and Bedford, and a Lawrence County gravel road vote. Kokomo bank VP saved from drowning. Marion gas explosion injures three.
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