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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1920
Page
10
The slate includes President James M Cox with Franklin D Roosevelt for vice president, Thomas Taggart as U S Senator, Carlton B McCulloch, Charles Wagner, Charles R Hughes, Georgi Db. Sunkiel, Miss Adela Steele Baylor, JAP W Turley, John K Morris, and Frank Cunningham for various statewide offices and roles.
The library shelves receive new adult fiction and non fiction titles including Border Legion by Zaine Grey and Men Who Make Our Novels by G. Gordon Overton. Juvenile works include Lisbeth Longstrock and Quainted Stories. Also offered is a six room house and lot for sale at Corydon with detailed features.
Hartaville Callice alumni gathered in Hartsville Indiana on August 11 and 12 with about 100 former students answering roll call. Harrison county representatives included Henry Beanblossom Emmett Beanblossom and Aries Jemmon. The event featured registration social time chapel exercises a ladies church dinner and around forty short talks led by speakers including Mr Lemmon.
A Hoosier Listening Post reflects on the Corydon toll gate’s closing as the last in Indiana and celebrates the old pike’s scenic hills and river views. The piece muses on Indiana’s historic capitals, relics in Corydon and New Albany, and urges preservation of historic homes, diaries, and artifacts in the state’s early history.
A Tractor Show will open at the Indiana State Fair in a large tent near the machinery section to showcase major makes and styles for farms of various sizes. The display aims to address farm labor shortages by highlighting power farming and features a photogenic display of tractors in action. Exhibitors from different manufacturers will offer extensive displays, promising a prominent fair attraction. Nearby, a separate listing notes a Creek bottom corn farm of about seventy two acres for sale with water, housing, and outbuildings, near Corydon.
Librarian Georgia Stockslager notes July 1920 open days and circulation stats. Total volumes rise to 2173 with 15 added and 23 withdrawn, about 1215 visitors including 564 adult and 651 juvenile. new borrowers listed zero. Signed report. Auction notice lists farm equipment sale at Jesse L Baxley near Corydon on Aug 21 starting 9 AM by Essa Richard auctioneer.
Ada Blanche Lilpop of Webster township married Joseph F Wills of Poseyville Ind at St Louis Bertrand Locvisville on August 12. Rev Father Lyons officiated. couple departed for French Lick and Indianapolis and will reside in Poseyville after September 1. Mrs Wills a trained nurse who worked with the Red Cross county program. The Democrat extends congratulations.
An OCR fragment notes Conner's Drug Store at Pearl and Saring Streets in New Albany Indiana. The text mentions prejudice against glasses and lists store location.
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