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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1913
Page
2
Professor Welling recounted the heroic actions of Ranger Pulaski in a northern Idaho forest fire. Pulaski and 35 crew members survived after sheltering in an abandoned mine shaft, protecting them with blankets and a revolver threat to keep order, while he was burned and blinded.
James Watkins, a miner jailed in Searchlight Nevada on a charge of stealing lace curtains, escaped at night to feed his pet cats forty miles across the desert. He was tracked by the sheriff who found him milk feeding the cats at his cabin. the theft charge may be dismissed due to his apparent affection for the pets.
The ten month old infant of Mr and Mrs A W Douglas in Chico California swallowed a bell clapper and attached wire hook after playing with a bell. After 93 hours of safe milk diet and opium medicine the clapper passed slowly through the digestive tract. The case astonishes for the infant’s age and the clapper size and potential injury from the inch long wire hook.
Vienna offers twelve cent lessons for brides at Urania a subsidized public course on domestic life The program covers kitchen management seasonal foods health dental care child rearing maternal teaching the wife’s role in the home and guidance on shopping and servants.
E H Stalanker long presumed dead after vanishing from Caney Kansas with his wife living there. He resurfaced in Pueblo Colorado under the name E B Hart after being traced to El Paso Texas by E A Metz of the Modern Woodmen. The missing man offered no reason for leaving home. His wife had sought insurance benefits but lodges refused payment, prompting the search.
Macungie Pennsylvania, Frank D. Lukens suffered a slight stroke while alone driving his car. A friend accompanying him could not get a response as the vehicle sped on. The friend managed to stop the car and Lukens was safely brought home.
In Council Grove Kansas Mrs Joseph Rutledge shot herself after despair over a promised $3,000 gold cache buried on the couple’s farm. Her husband had hidden his savings and died last February before revealing the location.
Daniel C. Reed Worth Reed and Herman W Briggs executors of Sampsioan Reed deceased filed their final account with vouchers. The court will exam the account on May 3 1913 heirs creditors and referees must appear and show cause why the account should not be approved. Heirs must also prove heirship at the hearing.
Paulding banker C K L Allen argues sugar beet culture will lift Ohio farm wealth by 20 million dollars this year and spur capital. He cites Paulding county gains, new factories, and city workers moving to rural beet work, predicting 25 factories in Ohio and equal in Indiana.
Complaint of stomach pains signals possible liver or kidney trouble. Electric Bitters hailed as the best stomach and kidney medicine. North Carolina resident H T Alston shares relief after starting the remedy. Available at Irvin and Willard’s for 50 cents or 1.00.
In National Magazine Truman G Palmer explains how sugar beets loosen and enrich soil. Deep root structure, thorough weed removal, autumn plowing, and root decay create humus and channels, enabling subsequent crops to access nutrients deeper, doubling or tripling soil output without extra land.
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