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Newspaper
Jeffersonville Star
Location
Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1920
Page
2
The Star announces William A. Baird of Jeffersonville as a candidate for the Republican primary nomination for Clark County Sheriff in 1920, pending the party decision under the 1920 Act.
Harland D Sanders announces his bid for Representative from Park County as a Democratic nominee subject to the May primary election. Ady reports the entry into the race and the party designation.
The readable text shows garbled phrases about a woman, a crags scene, an attorney, and scattered obscure words. No clear event or names emerge. the fragment appears to be an OCR damage of a legal or dramatic line with partial dialogue and misread letters. The piece lacks coherent facts.
In New Orleans graveyards on sunny days hundreds of chameleons bask on tomb walls and vines. A superstition says harming one brings death within a year while crossing a hand brings luck and wards off witchcraft from hoodoo doctors. Tourists often buy chameleons, mostly from shops rather than graves, and legends tie the creatures to luck, charms, and fate.
A quirky meditation contrasts histories of a royal bodyguard of four hundred Thai female warriors with a tale of climbing toward Easy Street. The piece travels through memories of youth, thefts, kinship schemes, and a weary old man begging at the gate, recalling a life long passed.
A balanced feed includes corn, alfalfa, and clover to supply proper nutrients. Corn alone lacks flesh building nutrients while alfalfa and clover have too much flesh making nutrients. A daily ration of twelve pounds alfalfa, eight pounds ground corn, and corn stover provides a balanced diet for animals.
A Russian correspondent reports that among the Chukchees of northeastern Siberia the act of dying by one’s own hand is common and ritualized. Delegated by relatives to perform the death, they view this choice as an honored duty.
A deli owner claims his sweating ice chest predicts rain. A customer bets a fiver it will rain before night and loses. Rain arrives as the chest shows moisture, the keeper revealing the device is his improvised barometer. The exchange ends with a quip about paying for knowledge.
Time to act against frequent urination headaches and back pain signals kidney disorders. Mrs J D Raney of Jeffersonville touts Deans Kidney Pills as strengthening and curing her kidney weakness and irregular action. Price 60 cents at all dealers. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY adv.
The Clark County Board of Commissioners invites sealed proposals for grading draining and paving with crushed limestone on the Henry Schubnell road in Carr Township Jeffersonville Indiana. Bids due February 2 1920 at 10 am with bonds and noncollusion affidavit required.
Job notice seeking a man to work on a farm either for monthly pay or share of crops. Applicant must show experience. Address this office at location X for responses.
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