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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1919
Page
7
A collage of small ads and notices: lost items, wants for housework and a cook, sales and auctions, farm for sale near Mauck Port, cars for sale, visiting relatives, local weather notes, people’s travels, and business changes in Corydon Indiana and surrounding towns.
The item listing reports on electric and gasoline irons and telephone supplies from J. J. Bulleitt & Son, visits by relatives from Detroit, a payment reminder due by September 1, and plans including sales, school moves, farm equipment, and a relocation of James A. Thornton and family from Jeffersonville to a Corydon area farm. The notices mention Buicks from Borgerding, local auctions, and community happenings through Corydon and Ramsey corridors.
A sale at J. H. Dann reuther's galé in New Salisbury lists hay and sheaf oats, about 75 cedar posts, three sets of harness, two-row corn cutter, a spring wagon, a lime sewer interest, a buggy and other property to be sold on September 2.
Miss Laura Steiner of Chicago spent Thursday evening and Friday with Capt G W Briffet and family in Corydon. An intimate friend of their daughter Miss Ora, Steiner worked for Hibbard Spencer Bartlett Co a major wholesale hardware firm with over eleven hundred employees. She had been to Louisville on company business and traveled to Corydon to visit family and sister Miss Nettie.
Parcel of local notices and character sketches recounts multiple small items. A Corydon Indiana reader advertises a nine year old work horse for sale by Eli Grab of Corydon with Eureka Phone as contact. The column also notes visits by Mrs. and Mrs. G N Little of New Albany and a salmon of local farming and shop activity.
Rural trade and personal notices list livestock sales farm equipment and resident movements. Auction announcements include dates September 2 1918 September 4 1918 and September 6 1919 with items such as mules cows horses wagons binders mowers and drills. Local residents Miss Blanche Davidson Roy Farish Mary Luther and James King are mentioned amid relocation schooling and business changes.
Mr and Mrs John Wolfe and family of New Middletown Mr and Mrs Byrd Sappenfield and son of Byrneville Mr and Mrs Jacob Croaby Homer Barksdale and wife Elden Smith Roscoe Claude and Misses Nella and Ruby Miller and Miss Ruth Thomas of Clark County visited William House and family last Sunday
The notice lists auction items including four horses, cattle, hogs, farming gear, wagons, and tools to be sold September 10 three miles north of Corydon Junction. Separate items describe local residents' travels, school positions, and regional highway development with Illinois planning to spend 69 million dollars on concrete highways, affecting miles of roadway and costs.
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