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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1906
Page
2
A Boston Herald note describes a canary in Everett that adores a young girl, pecking her teeth and demanding affection. The piece then riffs on new dissolving paper, praising its mischief and the bond between vows and paper in a Boston Transcript style mock essay.
Two soldiers of the First regiment on Mont Cenis endured two days in a snowstorm. To stay awake and warm they repeatedly struck one another, explaining the exhausted condition upon rescue. The report contrasts wartime hardship with political strife as classes strike back by leaving the country and wealthy families retreat abroad.
The Sacramento river bottom dredging began in 1849 and evolved into a commercial venture by 1897 with Postlethwaite dredgers on the Feather river. About thirty dredgers work across California with nearly fifty machines statewide, yielding roughly three million dollars annually. Cuban army size elicits editorial doubt about militarism and calls for prudent use of Cuba’s funds for roads.
Mme Isabelle Massieu returns to Europe from Anam in Indo-China and recalls encounters with legendary liars. A chief claimed an English vessel was so vast his aging father walked its deck with white hair, while another said trees in France rise so high a bird would take ten years to climb to the top.
Helen Kendig, 22, a Chestnut Street broker’s office stenographer, killed herself with gas after learning dancer Harry Oudi not in love. She left a note asking him to kiss her coffin and bury a flower he once used, and kept a bouquet of sweet peas as a memory.
A torn confession reveals Helen’s heartbreak and longing for Harry as she writes of dying without him and asks for one final kiss on her forehead. The note ends with hope that he will visit her grave someday despite a tragic mischance.
A court case titled Heirs and Devisers of Thenas Bid Die with unknown heirs and others referenced in Complaint No. 936. The document lists the case at a formal docket entry pending judicial action.
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