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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1912
Page
4
Special linen laces offered by the yard and embroidery pieces priced per yard. Ladies' muslin gowns advertised at 79 cents for a 1.00 grade and 1.35 to 1.50 grades. A 1.19 dollar stage item appears in the listing.
Mrs Ira J Melton visits relatives in Muncie Indiana while Eckart hosts the family and a dog captures twenty five rabbits Saturday. Villa Marsh visits sister and Miss Curtie Crecelius of Louisville visits Mrs IL A Elbert. Prayer meetings invite all weekly. Local residents relocate farms and seek work.
Mussels live on sandy or fine gravel bottoms near sea beds where they attach by byssus. They stack in dense, layered masses with no ground space visible, linked by living cords, facing perils from storms, current shifts, and bottom-layer crushing.
A Wairarapa Times retelling explains the Chinese belief in the louchi or vegetable lamb. The plant resembles an animal and grows from rhizome seeds with roots and tendrils entering the earth. It is said to start as plant and later turn animal feeding on nearby plant shoots.
An advertisement promotes Hyomei as a night relief for chest or head cold. It instructs a teaspoonful in hot water to inhale vapors. The ad notes a 50 cent bottle and a guarantee against catarrh and colds. May appear in Courier Journal and Corydon Democrat.
Dr Van Bemmelen confirms a central oval basin within the Krakatoa group remaining islands. The basin shows a level floor and depths exceeding 820 feet over a large area. No change in the sea floor since 1886 and no volcanic activity observed.
Naturalists describe preserving spiders webs using an atomized shellac spray to harden and fix the webs. Geometric webs are pressed to glass plates and dry, then stored. dome shaped webs dry on their supports to retain form. The method yields durable, species characteristic specimens for study.
A note urges feeding the birds, especially quail, and scattering grain at proper places to help them survive. Scott Frank from York Nebraska visits relatives in Louisville and stays with cousin Mrs. Clande Wolfe and旧 friends for several days.
The Illustrated Sporting News notes deer as the safest crop in Scotland with resilience to early frosts and wet conditions. Oats may fail, grouse suffer disease, and sheep are less valued than grouse, but deer rarely let seasonally affected, preserving forest letting values.
A brief London Sketch dialogue contrasts a widow’s claim that she made her husband happy with a wry, double meaning remark about his death. The exchange notes that Jack was in heaven once he died, reflecting dark humor about marriage and happiness.
The fragment discusses how to end a letter to Slow, weighing Yours Truly versus Respectfully. It suggests using respectfully with a parenthetical note reading for the last time, attributed to Flie gende Blatter.
Squire W H Morris will depart Friday for Chicago as a delegate from this district to attend an adjourned Head Camp Modern Woodmen of America meeting. The Farmers Guide subscription ad offers 85 cents yearly, and The Corydon Democrat combined with The Farmers Guide costs 1.35 dollars. Settlement to A P Stonecipher for threshing is due by January 27, 1932.
The article compares shad across states and rivers noting all are the same bony fish migrating to freshwater to spawn. It adds Leipzig as the world’s largest publication center hosting the annual book fair during Easter week. Also mentions selling old gold and silver and a lost horse last Saturday night.
A 100 acre farm with a four room cottage, 85 by 60 ft barn, 75 acres cultivated and 25 acres timber. Includes cattle, horses, a Jersey herd, ample implements, corn hay oats fodder and a spring well. Fence line, good out buildings, one mile from the Southern Railroad station and town. All for 4700 dollars, cash or terms. Immediate possession. George K. Gwartney.
Albert Cox announces he will stay home for about six weeks to hammer and sharpen saws at Corydon with guaranteed work. Prof and Mrs C M Sandifur traveled to Jeffersonville with their three year old daughter Mary for hearing trouble evaluation by Dr. Austin Funk.
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