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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1912
Page
3
Women embrace net and tulle to create unique summer outfits and lingerie as shops flood with accessories. Gowns girdles sashes parasols and hats in net flood windows and ads while boutiques shift from yard to piece sales spurring rapid, creative variations and the rise of individualized style.
Present day attire reflects an age of ease for active life. The piece notes the shift from voluminous skirts and towering headdresses to simple hats and hairdos, and it highlights the rising status of the washing glove as a fashion staple.
A dainty novelty frame made from shells costs little and serves as a bright ornament. It is formed as a fly rest to hang from gas brackets or similar fixtures using shells, baby ribbon, silver paper Seccotine and a brass ring.
Lucy Merton, orphaned after her father’s death, accepts neighbor Stephen Woodbridge’s plan to marry for support. James Tucker, her former lover, returns, threatening the match, but Lucy instead elopes with Woodbridge, choosing love over convenience. The tale blends social duty with personal choice amid a fur fashion sidebar.
Dame Fashion forecasts a costly winter for women who must stay up to date with fur trends. Ermine and moleskin lead a season of wider muffs broader scarfs fuller cloaks and abundant fur trim. Prices of pelts soar as fashion pairs furs like seal with beaver fox or sable and pony with seal for coats.
Community instruction urges timely submissions for the newspaper pages. Editors warn that Wednesday and Thursday are busiest and late week submissions often miss print deadlines.
The thirty second annual reunion of the Sixty Third regiment of Indiana volunteers will be held in this city at the fair grounds Thursday August 21. All old soldiers their wives and friends are invited to attend with baskets. Hon Claude Philpott will deliver the address and there will be other entertainments.
Bible school each Sunday at 10 o'clock. only service kept up during vacation. Pastor's vacation address Adrien Michigan until August then Yorkville Michigan care of Midland Park D. K. Fox Ph. D. Minister urges congregation to attend.
Bucklen Arnica Salve is advertised to instantly relieve pain from cuts bruises sprains burns and skin injuries. Clinton Me resident KE Chamberlain praises its pain removing and healing effects and the ad claims it is unmatched. Available for twenty five cents at Irvin's drug store.
A new timetable takes effect Monday on the Wabash road with adjusted east bound and west bound departures. The Towpath service updates show Attica to Covington timings with morning and afternoon runs reflecting new connection windows.
Mrs D L Kenney reports relief after fifty years of tetter from using Dr Hobson's Eczema Ointment. Ad claims perfect cure and urges purchase from druggists or by mail 50c. Pfeifer Chemicals Co St Louis MO Philadelphia PA adv.
Clifton Heights resident E V McKee lit a cigar in 1869 after Bryan lost to McKinley and later tossed it on the floor. Thomas Gaffney saved the cigar in an envelope for McKee to smoke when a Democratic president is elected.
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