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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1901
Page
3
Notice shows post office entry at Corydon and class matter. Advertises office location in Democrat Building with subscription terms and rates. Indicates advance payments required and year terms.
A dense editorial blend argues labor leans to unionism over ballots for protection, critiques Knox on anti trust enforcement, notes Hawaii and Porto Rico coffee duties, warns of tariff retaliation, questions sugar and refinery schemes, and criticizes trusts, a navy scandal, and financial power of Rockefellers and Morgans.
A Lincoln quotation warns of looming crisis and war corruption. It foresees wealth concentrating in few hands and the Republic periled by money power manipulating public prejudice. The speaker expresses deepest concern for national safety amid turmoil.
The piece argues organized labor should strike to resist politicians serving trusts. It notes Louisville nominees withdrawing names, questions Democratic margins this fall, and cites rising pension payments from Grant to McKinley. It cites Wheeling Register accusing Republicans of servitude to Trusts and questions GOP willingness to challenge them.
The Vincennes Sun condemns the Louisville Conclave welcome address by W C P Breckenridge. It labels his selection for the welcome as an error due to his past alleged unchaste conduct toward Madeline Pollard and a trial verdict of guilt, noting unpaid judgment.
The school board Funk Martin Self replaced veteran janitor Uncle Joe Denbo, a Democrat, with Republican W P Lewis citing petty politics. Denbo bid 20 dollars monthly, Lewis 24, costing taxpayers four dollars extra monthly for partisan reasons. The move prompts criticism of partisan motives over efficiency.
Government plans a broader rural free delivery test in the county, abolishing fourth class post offices if roads are adequate. Officials say daily delivery depends on road quality, arguing better roads boost market access, reduce hauling costs, and justify the free mail service.
A celebrated German physician Dr A Boschee offers Boschee's German Syrup as a non experimental remedy for coughs colds and lung troubles. The medicine claims to remove the cause and restore health with three doses often relieving ordinary coughs at 75 cents. Two million bottles sold yearly with wide U S distribution.
John Ruebl and Agnes Miller. John C. Richards and Ila Beanblossom. Harrison J. Stegro and Phoebe A. Robbins. Richard T. Ackan and Lillie M. Adamson. James G. Watson and Flora M. Hell.
The ad claims people can gain a pound daily by taking an ounce of Scott's Emulsion. It suggests the emulsion starts digestive machinery, enabling absorption of ordinary food and resulting in weight gain. The copy advises continued use to restore needed flesh for health.
Peaches bring in low prices at 28 19 cents per bushel. Rev Myers from Kansas City visits Dr Moore and preaches at the M E church Sunday night. Misses Ruth and Pearl Friedly visit their uncle Thomas Friedly. Mr William Sullivan and wife return to Anderson with Mrs Bowling and Mrs Walter Seales accompanying them.
The baby of John and Beth Denbo died Monday Aug 26 1901 leaving a father mother two brothers and two sisters to mourn. The lyric note honors Ada as a treasure and describes a family’s sorrow and hope of meeting again in heaven. Exma K.
Dan Letheo plans a move to Boone township. Charles Smith from Blue River visits nearby. Sam Tindall threshes about 40 bushels of clover seed from 35 acres. Quar terly Mt. Zion meeting draws many locals. Rev. E D Curtis of Indianapolis to preach at Congregational church September 8 at 10:40 AM and again at night. Peach growers haul fruit to still-house due to weak market. Fredh Robinson and C C Crosier from Boone township plaster the new store room and Woodmen hall on Blake corner.
The National Glass Company from Pittsburgh operates twenty ore plants and displays a full factory on the Pan American Grounds. The exhibit shows glass making from raw material to finished products, plus cutting, engraving, etching, decarting, spinning and weaving glass into cloth. It features a life-size likeness of actress Miss Maxine Elliott draped in a dress woven from glass and furniture upholstered with glass cloth. It is the only manufacturing exhibit on site and a leading Pan-American feature.
Delinquent dog taxes must be paid by the last day of September 190. After that date names of all in arrears will be given to the prosecuting attorney. Wa Hauswald trustee Harrison Township.
The undersigned ready to furnish all kinds of building lumber and barn or house patterns on short notice. Visit us or our mill in Heth township to place your order with Watson & Thomas.
The executor will auction the decedent Conrad Flottell estate at his Har rison township residence in Harrison county Indiana. Items include livestock crops farming implements furniture hay and household goods to be sold daily until finished. Cash for items five dollars and under nine month credit over five dollars with a note at six percent interest and sureties. August?i Clement L Bottell Executor.
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