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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1915
Page
4
The notice outlines subscription and advertising rates for the Corydon Indiana post office. Display ads cost 15 cents per inch per insertion, readers 5 cents per line, with special standing ad rates available on application. It notes a second class matter designation for Low M O Bannon, editor and proprietor.
Notice announces special pricing for church notices and entertainments with admission charged for profit. Obituaries capped at twenty lines or less. longer listings incur additional per-line charges.
The Indiana newspaper argues colleges should teach speaking skills to all students especially women. It notes senior women often mispronounce and stutter in public, calling an improving, modulated, precise delivery a necessary virtue in higher education.
This brief article outlines the formation of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in 1830, its growth, key conflicts after 1844, and its succession claims versus Brighamite leadership. It notes Joseph Smith III’s ordination in 1860 and asserts legal recognition as the rightful continuation of the original church.
Put Your Money In the Savings and Loan Association of Corydon and get 5 percent interest. You can take a paid up share or pay on the instalment plan with $1 or more per month. If you have funds, buy more shares.
Across cities from Savannah to Peoria, editorials condemn the German government for evasive diplomacy and demand prompt, firm action by President Wilson. Papers stress the Lusitania crisis, insist on accountability, and warn against further concessions.
Local notes report Geo Chaffin and Noah Packwoods visiting, and Andrew Garing purchasing a Ford. Ottie Mosier’s summer work is noted after a colt was killed by lightning. Band concerts occur weekly at Earl Park. Several residents travel between Dunnington New Albany Harrison County and Fowler with family visits and fishing outings mentioned.
Ninety five acre farm for sale about two miles from Corydon on the Pike. Includes five acres of timber, a fine large orchard, a good dwelling, fairly good outbuildings, a spring and two cisterns. A solid chance to secure a well located farm. For particulars inquire at this office. 229-If
Rev J K Hedges of Nehawka Nebraska writes to friends in Harrison county praising the town and noting their fourteenth year there. He recalls time in Indiana and mentions their daughter’s eighth grade graduation and a thriving local high school. He highlights local residents and business, including W I Smoots and the Chapple family, and jokes about money and prosperity tied to grain hogs and an apple orchard drive.
Refunding bonds for Harrison School Township totaled thirty five, bought by Fletcher American National Bank of Indianapolis at a premium of 58 on the lot. One bond matures every six months starting May 8, 1916, at a 4.3 percent interest rate.
A warning against catarrh ointments containing mercury notes they damage smell and the system. Hall's Catarrh Cure by F. d. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio is presented as mercury free and taken internally. Sold by druggists with testimonials available. Price per bottle. Hall's Family Pills for constipation also mentioned.
Joseph J. Bauer applies for renewal of a liquor license in Lanesville Harrison County Indiana at the July 1915 board of commissioners term. The business is described as the lower southeast front room of a two story frame building on Main street with specific dimensions and access. Bauer asserts good character residency and voter status as required.
The administrator de bonis non of the estate of John Jacobs announces a Harrison County Indiana public sale of decedent real estate. The property includes multiple forty acre tracts in section fifteen and twenty two township five south range five east described as parts of the northeast fourth and other quarters. Sale is about three and a half miles south of Elizabeth with bids at least one third cash and balance in two notes due six and nine months bearing six percent interest. The sale is subject to court approval and first mortgage security. Sam p Vogt administrator and Clyde R Lottick attorney.
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