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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1913
Page
5
Frank Hull reports Danville business Monday while Charley Lowe ships stock Tuesday. OCfting family attends Angeline Dicken funeral. Miss Hortense Martin visits Greencastle. Watermelons plentiful but prices high. teachers institute program announced. Mortgage of routine civic notices, sales, travels, and minor events across Crawfordsville, Covington, and nearby towns.
Mrs D L Kenney reports relief after fifty years of eczema with Dr Hobson s Eczema Ointment curing the chronic skin ailment. Advertisement credits Pfieffer Chemical Co of St Louis and Philadelphia as sellers and notes available at druggists or by mail.
Esther Wray of Raw Fordsville is visiting guest of Helen Myers this week. The gathering includes social calls and informal activities at Myers home.
Acquaintances influence business trust more than strangers and confidence grows from familiar products. Buyers favor items with proven merit and known standards that have stood the test of use. The text urges readers to inspect advertising columns. question arises whether inferior goods are widely advertised.
J. N. Martin's goods arrived from Greencastle Tuesday and Julian with his wife will soon move into the George Martin property. John Clagg, who has endured rheumatism all summer, was able to visit the city last week and has suffered greatly.
Mrs P W Ost and Walter Waterman return from a trip due to their mother Mrs Waterman’s illness. Masters Enos and Harrison Nebeker visit grandmother Mrs Mary A Nebeker in Indianapolis. A baseball game is set for Sunday at the home grounds with Danville facing Covington amid rain. Cement and salt supplies promoted by D J Young Co Covington.
After six decades of urging churches in Canada and the United States to fund foreign missions the Laymen's Missionary movement publishes a statement urging that greater emphasis be placed on prayer rather than more education or money. The executive committee asks mission boards to present this primary need to churches, noting wide interest but limited capacity to address the task. The signers include Samuel B. Capen Eben E Olcott N Farrar Davidson Frank A. Horne J Edgar Leacraft Alfred E. Marling William Jay Schieffelin L H Severance William C. Storer Joshua Levering S W Woodward John R Pepper.
In Kansas City a court ruled the lack of a comma in an insurance contract cost J. Sidney Smith seven thousand dollars. The dispute involved grain in cars on a side track near an elevator and how the distance to the elevator affected liability. The decision centered on punctuation and the interpretation that the cars must be within 100 feet of the elevator.
In Honolulu, baby Cavalho was born with a 38 caliber bullet in his side after his mother, Mrs. Juan Cavalho, was shot during a dispute with her brother-in-law named Ricas. The infant was operated on within two hours of birth and doctors report both mother and child are out of danger, though murder charges may rise if the baby dies.
Real estate pitch promotes land in the Show Me state priced at 30 to 60 dollars per acre with potential yields of 30 bushels of wheat and 70 bushels of corn per acre. Rental rates cited range from 5 to 87 dollars per acre.
The Republican press summary highlights ongoing political developments, community updates, and upcoming public meetings. It emphasizes party actions, candidate signaling, and local governance items of interest to readers.
Publicized health ad claims Kickapoo Worm Killer kills worms and eases symptoms in children. It promises appetite improvement and better digestion, urging purchase through druggists or mail from Kickapoo Indian Medicine Co. Philadelphia with St Louis mailing option.
Six thousand dollars in twenty dollar gold pieces, the fortune of the late gypsy king, was stolen from William Stanley in Providence Rhode Island. Police across New England and New York were wired about a German named Oscar, whose disappearance is linked to the loss. Stanley had sent Oscar, employed by him, to the cellar where the money was stored in a large canvas bag.
Stockton recalls an extraordinary somnambulistic feat as farm hand B Harrington swam two miles down the river while asleep. Clothing found ashore suggested drowning, but he woke further down the stream with no memory of the event.
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