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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1911
Page
4
Corydon Indiana newspaper rate card lists edition founded in 1856 with circulation of 3300. LEW M O BANNON is editor and proprietor. Subscription rates shown include one year six months and three months with prepaid amounts.
The notice outlines display advertising at ten cents per inch per insertion and readers’ rates of five cents a line. Special rates apply to standing ads, with timing details to be arranged upon application.
Notices detail charges for church officials and entertainments with a 2 percent per line rate for extra lines. Obituaries under twenty lines are free. over twenty lines incur the same 2 percent per line fee. Payment by money or stamps with the copy is requested.
A St Louis Post Dispatch summary notes the 1912 16 Republican rift at Washington with ex congressman William Ward and Ohio state chairman Walter Brown arguing Taft cannot carry New York and Chicago respectively. The piece discusses Roosevelt’s influence and party chaos amid debates over nominating Roosevelt or Taft and the possible futures for the Republican Party.
The Democrat urges Corydon High to establish a manual training department. The State Board of Education may allow manual training to substitute for Latin in high schools. Prof. Sandifur estimates tools cost about 250 dollars, but no public funds are available. Donations to raise 250 dollars are sought before the 1912 school year.
An advertised 45 acre Harrison County farm offers a clean green site with wood buildings a young apple orchard cherries pears and grapes on brick road frontage. It is offered below value to attract a quick sale in a swap deal with Orro Cunningham Locust Point Ind.
Harrold Barrett of New Albany outlines the aims and plan for the Men and Religion Forward Movement. The program spans Sept 1911 to May 1912 and covers religious survey Bible study boys work personal evangelism community extension social service mission ary work auxiliary cities and broader outreach to strengthen churches and civic life. Seventeen New Albany churches and the local YMCA form the core committee with ministers and laymen guiding the effort.
Farm for sale a hundred acres three miles from Corydon. Terms to suit buyer. Contact Corydon National Bank for details AD-w.
Farmers from Corydon Crandall and nearby towns praise Sucrene as a top dairy cow feed. Letters claim increased milk production, butter yield, and cattle health, urging orders and promising money-back quality. Also noted are price reductions on Rock Island Telephone Batteries and a New Year’s message from local editors.
A listed set of advantages highlights a safe area in a state with few frosts, high dry open prairie land, minimal drainage needs, abundant rainfall, and plentiful pure drinking water from surface sources or artesian wells.
The undersigned will sell at public auction at his residence one and a half miles southwest of New Middletown on the Mauckport road Friday January 12 1912 beginning at 10 am. Items include two Nichols and Shepard separators a Victor clover huller multiple engines boilers saw mills a Brennan headblocks a double surface planer and matcher a shingle machine two farm wagons water tanks pumps a Maxwell auto runabout and many other articles. Cash for sums 5.00 or less. Sums over 5.00 on credit for twelve months with notes and approved freehold.
Administratrix Lucinda Miller will sell at public auction at the decedent Michael W Miller's premises in Harrison County Indiana the personal property including three mules two sheep a wagon buggy dry corn harrows and plots dry poplar lumber and one share in Eureka Telephone Company cash five dollars or less and credit nine months for higher amounts with a promissory note and approved surety Auctioneer R F Davis with C W Cook attorney and others listed as admistrators notes provided.
Notice announces the undersigned named administratrix of the estate of Michael W. Miller, deceased. The estate is declared solvent.
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