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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1913
Page
6
Cap Caldwell led a Delaware regiment in the revolution known as Caldwell's game cocks. He believed a cock is game only if from a blue hen, a theory that inspired the nickname Blue Hen Chickens used for his unit and later applied broadly to Delawareans.
A London County Council education committee report details a Peckham schoolboy nearly 13 years old who cannot learn, write, or calculate. After years of effort, he has forgotten the few letters he knew and is deemed unable to progress, leading to a decision to expel him from the school.
Hawthorne exposes forged wealth to Borrovians, melts coins in a public display, and offers real capital to rebuildBorrovina while pressuring Prince Vladimir to exit. The crowd shifts from revolt to longing for prosperity as Hawthorne promises roads, railways, casinos, and steady pay, shaping a new republic under his influence.
The survey highlights 56,527,000 cattle on US farms and New York's egg consumption at 28.3 million dollars yearly. Reports cover copper output growth, rising living costs in Russia, Los Angeles recruiting settlers, Buffalo statue plans for Grover Cleveland and Millard Fillmore, and NY housewives pushing for cleaner grocers. Also noted are vice agents in religious garb targeting immigrants, South Africa apricot use, Spokane dog pounds, Salvation Army governance in Cleveland, refrigeration study by a Russian commission, naval ships aiding fires, London sludge ammonia costs, German auto cremaries, Dr. H. S. Tanner’s 84th birthday and a 10 percent marry-out plan, Honolulu chamber merger, and France’s cheap frozen beef. Additional items include a new Mexican rubber tree, lensless cameras in Germany, Florida orange tree grafting, Bowery Mission woes, London night schools, Belgian inventor’s artificial leather, and various other industrial, educational, and foreign-interest notes.
A fragment arguing that grimness is seen as virtue and piety is likened to a facial longitude while wholesomeness is pictured as a rigid collar, warning against trusting those who do not laugh.
The Oregon Journal announces a Western Information Bureau with a six month Semi-Weekly Journal subscription offer for 50 cents and a free 144 page illustrated booklet detailing Oregon resources and opportunities. Address to Oregon Journal Portland Oregon.
Jos. Starkey trustee of Fulton Township states he will be in his residences in Sates Ind Saturdays for weekly township business meetings. He invites local residents to attend and conduct township affairs.
Trustees' Notices state the first floor office room at the K of P Building will host township business on Wednesdays and Saturdays each week. Charles Dicken, Trustee of Troy Township.
The article highlights white wicker double wardrobes for babies with six drawers two top trays and a dressing table. It notes four pull out trays and two stationary ones plus a baby hamper shaped like a trunk with an internal tray and lower storage. A canvass cover could convert the hamper into a portable trunk.
The article suggests white cotton crepe window curtains and fleece lined pique covers for dressers. Curtains can be hemmed or trimmed with ball fringe and edger buttonholed in scallops. Keep two sets of curtains and covers on hand for guest readiness.
A prosperous man who visits a Liberty street cafe daily for two years shakes dice at the bar to decide whether to drink lunch, never tossing with anyone else. The practice is observed by locals and reported by New York Praga.
A botanical term dichotomy is repurposed by US medical press to describe a split in a surgeon who recommends a patient. The term signals a division observed between practitioner and patient rather than its original botanical meaning.
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