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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1910
Page
8
A weekly paper launches a contest in Fountain Warren and Vermillion counties offering a $400 piano and other prizes. Subscribers earn votes for each new year of payment, with the top vote-getter winning the piano. Readers may nominate a candidate by submitting a form to the editor.
John Galsworthy argues in the Atlantic that a good plot grows from the interaction of temperament and circumstance within a central idea and that a human being is the finest plot. He contrasts this with a bad plot as a line of stakes impaling characters who fail to live.
A tense scene at a job office features a man returning to the agency while another asks if he has quarreled with his mistress. The reply reveals the man’s departure after locking his mistress in the bathroom and taking his belongings.
A new practice in the Kansas penitentiary will save grace since November 1 in the women’s dining room. The matron began the routine and now the women take turns delivering the simple grace at the head of the table. The prisoners respond with dignity and there is no levity. The official grace appears to improve behavior among the female inmates.
Mrs. Stanton Blatch complains that women watchers were treated poorly as men were drunk and women had to tally ballots. She notes that women’s presence added dignity to polling places and caused men to remove their hats in respect.
A Boston Woman’s Municipal League engages in multiple civic projects including preparing for the 1915 exposition, improving milk supply, offering mothering instruction, hosting free concerts and exhibitions, paying inspectors to promote sanitary conditions, and advancing broader city welfare initiatives.
A departing actress proclaims America hopeless and vows not to return. A reporter notes that her words inspire hope. Just then the summons to go ashore is heard, creating a sudden twist in the exchange.
In a brief dialogue a wife asks her husband to take her to a play titled What Every Woman Knows while he jokes about a hypothetical What Not a Woman Knows. The quip hints at theatrical humor and marital banter in a light exchange.
Sunday April 16 180 Sunday School at 10 a m Preaching at 11 20 m Subject The Shout of a King Epworth League 6 p m Preaching 7 30 p m Subject The Cost of Conscientiousness Prayer service Thursday 7 p m Pastor Frank K Dougherty By buying a dollar’s worth of merchandise you will get back 5 cents per dollar in cash as a premium J Lorna’s STORES
The Covington Cubs meet the Kingman Leaders in an April 10, 1910 opener. Cubs lineup includes Hirshbeel pitching Dunlap catching and Merryman at first, with Hershberger, Hirshbeel, Harden, Johnson, Holder, and Cash contributing in the field and at bat. Also noting J Loeb's Stores offering premiums for purchases.
Builder explains he has started construction of the Rink Opera House and, due to limited afternoons, his daughters Dorothy and Anna Slim will solicit loans after school. They will leave blanks with Fountain Trust Company for guidance. He pitches the investment as stocklike, promising proportional earnings for small and large loans and states work will proceed as funds arrive.
An advertisement claims if applied properly the paint will not crack, peel, or chalk for five years. It offers free repainting if satisfaction is not met and asserts superiority over other paints. Price listed as $1.50 per gallon at VanDorn's.
Obituary note for Miss Anna Shuff daughter of Mr and Mrs David Shuff who died Tuesday March 22 1910. Personal tributes express grief and community sympathy. Poem evokes faith and heaven. Also an advertisement for J Loeb's ready made clothing store offering sizes for men women boys and girls.
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