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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1882
Page
5
A vivid portrait of Saratoga Springs guests on the grand piazzas, detailing the wealth of Vanderbilts and Hoffmans, Mrs Seligman, Webb, Field, and many politicians. The piece notes the social rituals, fashion, hotel life, and the festive cadence from morning to night, with reflections on money, democracy, and the spectacle of elite society.
A Detroit woman tests the cost of filing lawsuits at a justice of the peace office. She offers bribes to influence a ruling over a calf debt, faces blunt refusals, and walks away expressing anger at the court. The exchange highlights disputes over court fees and access to legal action.
A survey traces female vanity and fashion from Lesbos to Rome, Greece, and beyond. It notes cosmetics, jewelry, and distinctive beauty standards, comparing ancient Greek, Albanian, Egyptian, Indian, African, Kirghis, and Tibetan practices with modern trends and travels across empires.
A collage of items cites psychic conundrums in Concord, a Paducah toy catfish, tobacco acreage and values, a warning about drinking water, and cultural notes from Silas Marner to Japanese constitutional plans. It also mentions Swiss farm mortgaging, quotes about wealth, Baroness Burdett-Coutts party, Nilsson concert plans, and a list of republics with brief reflections on righteousness and manhood.
The report notes a royal decree from two centuries ago aimed at curbing licentiousness in a country. It claims the edict influenced public morals, and describes Oriental women engaging in practices such as nail pigments, hair loss, tooth damage by smoking, and deliberate blackening of teeth. CrayTor.
A colored man seeks a breach of trust suit to recover a woman who married another man. The lawyer debates legal options, noting the state constitution and marriage status affect his rights and remedies. The exchange ends with a vow to vote for a white man in the future.
A widow with six children built a German daily in New York from a near sale for $500 into a thriving family-owned paper. She ran the business herself, later marrying the editor, expanding holdings, funding an old ladies home, and maintaining independence from male opposition. In time she became wealthy and prosperous. The piece contrasts with a Chicago Tribune note about drug clerk tests.
The article extols Die Zeitung as a leading German news source and lauds its building as a monument to women's capacity. It calls the motherly figure who provides food for her offspring a tender, high breeding woman who labors without complaint to achieve the world’s best bread-winning work.
London Truth describes Rosa Bonheur’s use of masculine dress to study among stable workers and fair participants without harassment. It notes her residence at Thomery near Fontainebleau, her attire changes for weather, and a royal decoration from Empress Eugenie and an imperial knighthood decree.
Dalrymple operates 57 000 acres split into 6 000 acre farms with an overseeing superintendent. Each 2 000 acre division has a foreman and buildings including boarding houses stables granary and smith shop connected by telephone to headquarters. Wages range from 20 dollars a month to harvest workers 2 dollars a day during harvest and threshing and 80 dollars a month for fall plowing. Best hands earn 30 dollars with 25 dollars for inferior fall work. Grain can be marketed via Minneapolis Buffalo New York routes through Duluth or shipped to New York. yield averages twenty bushels per acre with production costs about 35 cents per bushel at the railroad and 25 to 27 cents to ship to New York.
Dr Schliemann's wife in a Greek letter to Hestia outlines Troy excavations near the site. She describes two temple-like buildings with varied construction and clay-filled joints, suggesting different periods and a stone foundation beneath possible wooden supports.
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