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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1910
Page
8
A weekly paper runs a contest in Fountain Warren and Vermillion counties offering a $400 piano free to the most popular girl. Readers win votes for subscriptions sold and for paid renewals, with 400 votes per new year and 400 votes per paid renewal.
A Press Association report outlines a massive speaking campaign to defend the Payne Aldrich tariff. Senator Aldrich, Speaker Cannon, and many senators will headline events, starting with a Utica New York banquet featuring Depew Root and James E Watson. Watson leads a push to promote tariff benefits across multiple districts in Kansas Oklahoma and beyond.
John Vanpelt in poor health plans Ottawa Illinois medical treatment. Mrs Grant Hughes and Mrs E N Brown called on Mre J W Aufall. John Feiffall called on Roger McLain. Grant Hughes drove to Williamsport on business, with Mrs Hughes visiting Marshald relatives. Various Covington callers and local visits follow, including Ed L Brown from Danville and Merrymans oysters advertised as finest in the city.
A historical opinion piece extols the cow as essential to infancy and sustenance across life stages. It describes cattle as beauty and muse, cites Homeric imagery, and laments a milk trust in New York attacking bovine character as a grave offense against American industry.
A Washington Herald opinion notes Mrs MacGill’s critique of wives’ unpaid labor in home duties. It argues a wife’s wage independence would disrupt the home, asserting the wife and mother remain its crown and queen despite gendered expectations.
A child hatches a riddle about a stork with four legs to stump Aunt. The Aunt corrects that it has two legs, while Annie insists the setup makes the riddle harder. The dialogue plays on misperceived traits and playful trickery between the two speakers.
Farmer Corntes notes a boy’s promise but warns talent must be used wisely. The speaker adds a rural analogy about a prize pumpkin making the poorest pie, underscoring effort over potential.
A terse dialogue between Patience and Patrice centers on locating traces of ancestors. Patience notes a five milligram week search, while Patrice questions the relevance and existence of such traces. The exchange plays on memory and the burden of ancestral search.
In the Pittsburg Observer, a dialogue contrasts how to say taxicab with Brooke stressing the first syllable as taz and Rivers-How. The piece highlights regional pronunciation quirks and phonetic emphasis.
A Boston Herald line questions whether the phrase refers to money or relationships. The fragment notes a pun on easy come, easy go and hints at social commentary about wealth and poverty in casual speech. The source presents a witty contrast without further context.
A collection of satirical quips on taxation and public life. References include Judge The Other Side and Columbia Jester, noting I Ts impact and yellow feeling. Fragments mix jokes about wives husbands faked ethics and comic misreads from various papers.
Frank J. Cheney a senior partner of J J Cheney & Co in Toledo swears the firm will pay one hundred dollars for every case of catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. The oath was sworn December ith before Notary A W Gleason. The company claims the cure is taken internally and works on blood and mucous surfaces and offers testimonials. Sold by all druggists with five cents for Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
The undersigned has been appointed and qualified by the Fountain County Circuit Court Indiana as Administrator of the estate of Noah W Dotson late of Fountain County Indiana deceased.
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