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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1903
Page
4
Corydon Indiana entry notes the Democrat newspaper office in the Democrat Building, with post office classification and printing details. The fragment references second class mail matter and a page designation B15.
The Sultan of Sulu with thirty wives shows disappointment with Republican institutions though Mr. Smoot's Senate admission offers some encouragement. Presidential buttons in Chicago depict Roosevelt and Booker T. Washington lunching together, popular among colored Republicans but slow to gain white support.
Three drowned men were found at surf-bathing stations near Lewes Delaware. One body near Lewes station, one near Nenopen station, and one near Reho station. The Reho boy, Henry Doyce of Canebreton Nova Scotia, identified by his son Harry, will be buried in Lewes. Police inquiry ongoing. bodies sent to undertaker for inquest and burial in Methodist Episcopal cemetery.
The Adder torpedo boat stealthily approached the Craven and fired a torpedo, sinking the target amidships in a coastal demonstration off Newport Rhode Island. This marked a successful test of submarine boats in warfare and showcased their effectiveness in attack scenarios.
Levees on the west bank of the Wisconsin river broke after the river rose to 12.2 feet at the government lock, flooding a region between the Wisconsin and Baraboo rivers. Seven hundred feet of new city levee washed away, residences surrounded, and hundreds of acres of potatoes corn and mill destroyed. Prairie du Chien sees the Mississippi and Wisconsin rivers up 24 inches. lowland crops, especially corn, submerged. Also note a mass gathering in New York honoring Robert Emmet and a polo ball accident in Chicago that killed Nathan Swift.
Utica to Albany gains telegraph and telephone on a single wire enabling simultaneous Morse telegraph and voice messages without interference. Nebraska reports frost, light snow flurries, and corn largely saved by sun. St Louis men fatally scalded at Swift Packing Co. Indiana reports a $4,000 famed Stereford cow dying of lung congestion. Newport News notes a British steamer storm distress and partial damage. Juarez bull ring opens with tortures and deaths. Novelist Elizabeth Waltz dies in Louisville. Circuit Court in session.
In Nashville on September 21 neighbors found Mrs Wilson dead and Miss Louisie Cunningham with a pistol in hand claiming God ordered the deed. The scene followed rapid gunfire and screams as the husband restrained the killer who cried murder.
Promoters urge attendance at a high quality Maccabee show tomorrow evening at the Auditorium. Audience should expect a top tier performance, not a cheap road act.
Marriage license records show multiple couples including Charles W. Kab and Annie M. Heintz, Thomas J. Wagner and Orah Fe, Andy J. Barnickle and Pervin Cromwell, James Goldsmith and Media Trobaugh, George A. Tower and Carrie G. Lonigan, and Joseph M. Treacy and Katy Brockman.
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