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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1913
Page
5
The issue highlights J Loeb's Store holiday items and new arrivals, Booklovers and Women's clubs gatherings, and local Christmas gift options. It notes Baptists services, a royal tailor offer, and regional travel to LaFayette for a hog cholera meeting, with social events at the Anagram club and a K P dance concert.
Local notes report visitors from Martinsville Wallace Indianapolis and Chicago. Stores promote overcoats and fur nishings while smallpox scare subsides in Fowler and a priest faces health issues prompting temporary leave.
Sauerkraut at Merryman's. New goods of all sorts at Helpful Hints. To boil milk without fear of burning, place water in the pan and boil then add milk. Soap with starch makes clothes iron better and glossy. For a nervous headache knot the hair high, remove the waist, bend over the basin, and apply hot water to the neck repeating to relieve pain.
A concise notice notes a fine bull belonging to Jersey and Hereford breeds and references Dan Morris in the brief item.
The fruitists, designers of these patterns, create decorations that evoke fruit without using real apples or grapes. The designs offer bold color combinations and relief from floral or conventional Balkan embroidery. A large variety of fine linen pieces is available at J. Loeb's Stores.
A rock perched eagle watches a hare, an archer hides and fires. The eagle dies from an arrow carrying his own feathers. He laments the irony that his own wing aided his death in this Aesop fable.
The article notes The First National Bank plans a modern banking room and quarters in Covington within the near future. It predicts Covington will see two of the finest banking rooms in the state by 1914 and forecasts significant business changes if conditions improve.
The article notes flocks of wi'd'géese passing south over recent days, suggesting little cold weather north. Wheat and grass remain green and growing, and anglers report some of the finest river fish of the season caught with hook and line. For sale a fine young bay horse with buggy and harness. Andy can drive him anywhere, see at this office.
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