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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1911
Page
3
The column lists varied local items missing details such as repairs at C C Bundy shoe shop and new seed sales at E J Beans. It notes visitors from Louisville and New Albany, farm and home services, a court date, and community notices including cemetery wreaths and church fundraising.
Notes from Harrison county and New Albany items report visits by Miss Edna McRae and Miss Mabel Colvin, local business ads, a streetcar accident death, and civic notices. Indiana University staff Melvin Oasis and Alva Thomas resume work at Bloomington.
April 1 Easter notice hints at announcements for April 13. Local items mention tin and granite ware at E. J. Bean, farm and legal notices, weddings and community updates across Corydon and surrounding townships.
George W. Boone 1837 1911 died March 29 at 1318 East Spring Street New Albany Indiana after nine months illness of paralysis. He served in Co E List Regiment Indiana Volunteers from 1862 to 1865 attaining First Lieutenant and fought in every engagement. He married Venevia N Inman in 1869 and had five children. Funeral services were held in New Albany with burial in Cedar Hill Corydon.
An advertisement touts Doan's Kidney Pills as a cure for kidney ailments affecting all ages. A Corydon Indiana testimonial from Mrs George Straub praises the product, noting family use and backache relief. sale through Louis S Riely’s Drug Store.
Local elections show cities moving to wet status while many townships and smaller towns vote dry. Several townships with larger towns also go dry and multiple cities declare no saloons.
In Argyle Michigan a Mrs Wm H Carson writes of relief from headaches and womanly pains after using Cardui the woman's tonic a church leader Rev Jos Black travels to Ashland Ohio and to North Vernon to Ohio due to his mother in law's condition local frames and wedding notices mention Lucile Hottel daughter of Judge and Mrs M Hottel marrying Lee Laughwood Persise in Salem with other small local items
Elder Seth Sidney Nye born January 1825 in Beaver county near Elwood City Pennsylvania died March 27 1911 at Corydon Indiana aged eighty six years two months and twenty two days Funeral services were held at Corydon Presbyterian church March 29 conducted by several ministers and a quartet. He married Margaret J Ault in 1850 and had a daughter Josephine and a son Herman M Nye The deceased leaves a widow four sons and one daughter and several siblings Nye was a minister with multiple denominations including Methodist and Disciples of Christ and served as pastor of Corydon Christian church starting May 1869 He served as a county school examiner and taught in the county and enlisted in the Mexican war before illness ended his service His life was marked by strong religious conviction and public service.
A Lake Charles resident touts Cardui citing relief from backache and other symptoms. The obituary notes Major John B. Glover, a Cra War veteran aged 78, who died in Indianapolis and left a wife who was the daughter of Prof. James G. May, a noted Indiana educator.
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