22 Sep 1874
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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1874
Page
1
A.W. Brewster announces strict subscription terms for Corydon Indiana with yearly six month and three month options and specific rates for local notices and advertisements. Yearly ads priced by column width. no ad under a square. Local notices 10 cents per line, minimums apply.
The Indianapolis Sentinel condemns Reconstruction as a failed Republican experiment. It argues disenfranchisement and tutelage, use of federal troops, and legal maneuvers undermine self government, urging drastic change or dissolution of Southern states as rotten boroughs. The piece cites Louisiana 1872, Florida, South Carolina, and Kentucky as case examples.
In Belleville Missouri on a Tuesday evening August 20 Rev J P Davis pastor of a Methodist church was shot at near the German Methodist Church. The assailant fled dropping a seven barrel revolver two chambers empty while Davis pursued. Davis saw the would be killer as a small person with feminine voice and light build. a possible female attacker is suspected. Earlier a gunshot on Jackson Street was heard.
A citizen of Lansbourg N Y describes a roadshow model town with a tower, clock, bells and over fifty figures showing industry from beer gardens to mills and blacksmiths. The display runs three hours when wound, with a canal boat load of grain and moving machinery.
A Minnesota paper sketches a humorous story of a young Hutchinson woman of modest means who tries to hide her home’s simplicity during a church meeting with a stranger. The tale highlights social pretenses and mistaken perceptions as they walk toward her residence.
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