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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1922
Page
5
A Sunday morning blaze gutted the Main Street M. E. Church in New Albany with about 20 000 dollars in damage. Three firemen were injured Wesley Wilson Louis Strack and Thos O Connel. The organ and Sunday School Chapel were spared and Pastor Rev W H Howarten suffered a heart attack but was revived.
Obituary note for Mary Margaret Brown McAdams born July 17 1843 in Scott township died January 7 1922 at New Amsterdam. Survived by husband John W McAdams two children Walter Swartz Alda Curts twenty one grandchildren ten great grandchildren and sister Charity Kendle. Funeral at home with Rev Youngblood burial in church cemetery.
The undersigned offers for sale on Thursday February 23 at his residence one mile east of French Town on the Milltown and Corydon Pike. Items include a span of black horse mules about five years old, 15 hands high, weight about 900 pounds, four shoats of 50 pounds each, seven head of cattle with four milch cows and three calves, plus farm equipment such as a binder mowing machine disc wheat drill riding cultivator plows harrows and usual terms. Auctioneer J. D. Lincoln and Clerk Dan Swarens. Also note references to local milling and an apple preserved from 1926 in Corydon area.
An 1910 Corydon notice highlights Mrs Geo Straub and family endorsing Dean's Kidney Pills for backache and kidney relief. The 1915 update confirms long term satisfaction with Doan's products, noting continued use and positive results. Sold for 60 cents at dealers. Foster Milling Co. makers. Sleds and other items advertised by J J Bulleit & Son.
Professor Stephen S. Visher of Indiana University spent six months at sea studying tropical cyclones, financed by Yale, the Bishop Museum and Brant. He observed in Hawaii, Fiji, Australia, the Philippines, China and Japan, concluding storms reach world weather, are more widespread than thought, and transport life and rainfall. The Bulletin on Australian Hurricanes was requested by Australia’s Weather Bureau. Bishop Museum and publishers will issue further works.
Mrs Mary Borgerding, formerly Miss Mary Zipperian, of New Albany, died from injuries suffered in an automobile accident near New Albany on January 29. Her husband George Borgerding, a prominent local businessman and president of Mutual Trust and Deposit Co., was seriously injured and hospitalized at St Edward's.
An advertisement from Indiana Crandall based Prep- Indiana Creek Nurseries by J A Balmon promotes buying 100 apple trees for planting and earning about 100 dollars in twelve hours. It emphasizes 26 years in the nursery business and offers method guidance.
The Elizabeth Farmers Short Course featured Purdue instructors on home economics poultry and potato topics with 745 attendees from seven Harrison and Floyd counties. The Indiana Seed Law began enforcement January 1 1922 detailing labeling, germination, noxious weeds, and penalties while seed testing and bee inspection plans were announced for Harrison County with April inspections.
Daily operations at New Middletown Mill process corn for cattle feed. The facility handles grinding and preparation of grain to supply local farms with livestock feed.
C H Ginkins spent a week with his daughter Mrs Frank Davidson in Columbia Tennessee returning home last Monday. He met his daughter in Louisville and enjoyed the visit with her and her husband. The annual meeting of the Fire Insurance Co of Tennessee will be held at Seitz Schoolhouse on the 18th for electing officers and other business.
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