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Newspaper
Jeffersonville Star
Location
Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1920
Page
2
The STAR announces Harland D. Sanders as a Democratic candidate for Representative from Clark County subject to the May primary election.
Itemized 1919 county expenses listing numerous payments to bailiffs, jurors, officers, and vendors including jail, bridge, sewer and road work, insanes care, and various clerical expenses totaling thousands of dollars across multiple departments and services. Names include George Sububwell, Paris Spurgeon, John H. Dellinger, W. H. Anderson, A. Wall, and many others with amounts ranging from a few dollars to over a hundred.
George K. Cherrie, noted explorer and Roosevelt associate, returns with 3,000 bird skins and 400 animal skins for the American Museum of Natural History. He recounts jungle adventures in Paraguayan and Brazilian swamps and the River of Doubt voyage, supported by photographs for credibility.
In vivid travel sketches Mr. Cherrie describes South American ostriches nesting communally with male incubation, parrots living in giant tree-top apartment nests with elevator-like tubes, and woodpeckers that hammer insects with a powerful beak. He challenges tropic myths and shares photographs from Paraguay’s swamps. A separate note reports Mrs. Stuchell’s clock-tucking Brahma hen story.
Jeffersonville resident H. H. Mitchell of 702 Watt Street reports back pain and kidney-related illness improved by Doan’s Kidney Pills after trying two boxes. He urges neighbors to use the brand, sold by all dealers, made by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
Shareholders are notified of a meeting at the Trust Company office on Tuesday January 13 1920 between 10 a m and noon to elect nine directors for the ensuing year and until successors are chosen. D Driscoll secretary.
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