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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1899
Page
6
A damaged OCR fragment presents poetic lines with garbled spelling and missing context. The readable portion hints at a misspelled address to a child and rural imagery, but lacks clear events, names, dates, or locations to identify a full news item.
A dense jumble of OCR text covers literary reflections, theatrical mentions, and local notices. It references a serialized drama, gender roles, and a discussion of second hand frock coats in India, with scattered remarks on tragedy, marriage, and social attire.
A weather and crop report notes favorable conditions may push this year’s corn yield to a historic total around 2.35 billion bushels, vastly surpassing prior marks. Analysts cite dry spells in the West followed by late season growth as factors, with Kansas and Nebraska singled out for strong prospects despite lingering worries.
President Meinley attended as Philadelphia hosts a Grand Army parade. Some 35 000 veterans marched past the Avenue of Fame with lines of colors dipped and caps fitted while 3 4000 schoolchildren sang in the northern grandstand. Camp Sexton housed veterans at Delmont mansion Fairmount Park with ample comforts.
Washington estimates show near record corn yields across the seven lead states with Kansas and Nebraska near harvest readiness. The piece describes expanding drought risk, military veteran camp sights, and a large gathering of G. A. R. veterans with elaborate camp infrastructure and flag bedecked arches.
A Brooklyn man and a St Louis man spoke for about fifty hours last week in a long distance call that cost over $3,000. Most conversation occurred between 5 p.m. and 6 a.m. with rates at $5 for the first five minutes and $1 per minute thereafter.
A lighthearted column of cheerful anecdotes and puns. Dialogues feature a dinner invitation barter joke at Salt Lake City about seven wives and a balloon ride quip.
A customer asks for a pocket dictionary with many pockets. A layabout complains about bread and work, as another exchanges jokes about public figures and insomnia, and a domestic scene shows trust and flirtation in a light dialogue.
A brief exchange notes sending poems to magazines as a guarantee of food faith, with some caveats about publication and confidence in the process.
A collage of remarks and quips from society pages across American papers. Dialogues joke about marriage advice, bachelors, infidelity, and social climbers, with lines about women writers, plate mishaps, and Mrs Glitter’s energy after divorce.
A collage of brief jokes and dialogues features a chronic borrower, a pun about giving up habits, a skirt gag, a baby swallowing a nickel, a man overboard anecdote, and a Chicago wires protest. Each line delivers a punchy quip or witty exchange in a brisk, period-voiced tone.
City residents join a casual golf game described by New York World as a light local pastime. Farmers and townsfolk mingle as the group plays on a fair day, with little disturbance beyond friendly competition.
A collage of humor and sharp lines from various papers. It includes a cafe scene with the Don and two Americans debating who is after everything, a jab at two headed boys, a justice and a colored culprit exchange about truth and time, a New York tale of a woman who gave $100000 to a rescuer, and quips about exertion language and Dutch dictionaries.
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