Show GO UP MOST american towns delight in becoming famous they put forth various aus claims to notoriety one is the boss town for one thing another the banner town for another this place beats all creation for this that takes the socks off everything for that there is an iowa town however that bids bias for supremacy in a curious particular it boasts of being ahead of all others according to population for suicides theres glory for you must be ahead in something it is a small but pretty place called durant and is situated twenty miles west of davenport its population is but bat five hundred and they are all said to be wealthy but within the past two years no less than thirteen persons have shuf shuffled fied off this mortal coil by their own hands in this lovely rich and quiet village one and a half percent per cent of suicides per annum is a startling rate of felo de se and durant may take the cake and go uv up head on that test the reason for this disposition to cut the brittle thread of mortal existence is not apparent the suicides were all residents of the pleasant looking little place and there is nothing unusual so far as discovered in earth air water ot or surroundings aba t would incite a mania for self destruction whatever of excitement has been created by these belt elf inflicted fatalities does not prevail in durant the living residents take the matter ve very philosophically and say if the fools want to so die let jet lem em 11 A scientific investigation is to be had not I 1 in a D durant arant ho however wever b but ut at davenport where the medical society is quite interested in the causes for this peculiar freak it these can be discovered the country will like to know what they are and meanwhile we do not think any obscure town ambitious for fame faine will desire to dispute the claim of durant as the boss place for suicides |