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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1906
Page
2
The Corydon Democrat notes scarce turkeys this year and rising land values. Water safety urged as drinking water should be boiled. School year advancing one third passed as new Presbyterian church nears completion. Community notices cite Thanksgivings, obituaries, local births, legal items, and sales.
Reports detail the death of William Moser aged 56 after being struck by a Southern switch engine on the railroad near Milltown park on the 20th, losing his right arm and leg and dying within hours. Other items note the death of Mrs. Matilda Loughmiller Templeman in Bradford from pneumonia, and a Supreme Court decision upholding the Moore liquor law.
C A Lathan a leading Massachusetts poultry man promotes self feeding hoppers in each pen with compartments for different feeds. Birds receive only dry feed including grains bran middlings and dry beef scraps. The system avoids wet feed and hot mash saving work and effort and is praised as potentially the best way to feed poultry.
Wr. H. Routh et al transfer 20 acres to Lansky Youth for 180 dollars. Agnes Eaton to Peters and Seacat 685 dollars. John H. Seacat to Henry Peters 442 dollars. Charles Hurn to Japeth W. Turley 10 acres for 100 dollars. Christena Gleitz to Wm. B. Gleitz 90 acres for 2263 dollars. W. B. Ludlow sheriff to Savings and Loan Association lot in New Middletown for 643 dollars. Philip A Bruch to Walter D. Walker 30 acres for 800 dollars. Michael Greitz to Wm. B. Greitz 80 acres for 266 dollars. Trustees Corydon Presbyterian Church to Corydon U. B. Church part of Lot 67 for 1000 dollars. Mary E. Wolf to George and Ford Smith 248 acres for 120 dollars.
Albert Hale writes in the Reader about Rio de Janeiro street cars. A first class bond on a first class car must be transferred to second class, forcing the narrator to ride with market workers or hire a tilbury. Dress and neckwear determine class as in the empire era.
Biographical notes describe Napoleon as irritable and morally lax in his family circle yet highly sensitive to weather. Dr Cabanas notes Pauline’s immodesty and hysteria. Napoleon exhibited headaches, auditory illusions, tremors, and sudden rages, yet displayed focus and decisiveness in campaigns with a slowed pulse around 30 to 35 beats per minute, never above 55.
The article explains that eagles possess extraordinary vision able to fix on distant objects. Baby eagles greet parents with shrill cries, and their eyes resist bright sunlight. Eagles fly steadily and often return to the same nest, showing fidelity to mates and nesting sites when undisturbed.
An old advertisement asserts that weak kidneys cause widespread illness and recommending Doan's Kidney Pills as the remedy. It cites Mrs. Henry Moritz of Seymour praising relief from back pain, irregular kidney secretions, and headaches after using the product. It notes price 50 cents and Foster Milburn Co. as US agents.
The administrator of the Levi Pitman estate will auction personal property at the premises one mile west of Central on Wednesday December 12 1908. Items include horses cattle hogs sheep farming implements wagons tools hay lumber engines mills furniture and more with payment terms of cash under 5 and credit up to nine months for larger sums. William E Pitman Administrator.
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