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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1905
Page
6
The Pittsburg Dispatch questions using intoxication as an excuse for murder, warning it could excuse future felonies. It argues courts should not accept drunk state as absolving responsibility and notes risks if offenders claim emotional insanity or intoxication.
A Rural New Yorker excerpt discusses growing rye as a pasture and hay crop for livestock with minimal losses. It highlights rye’s benefits for clover, feeding sheep, and winter pasturing, plus notes on stack measurements, crop rotation, and regional farming institutes. It mentions moisture limits, straw as bedding, and government rye yield trends.
A medical authority describes a simple antiseptic method for ordinary facial erysipelas. Alternating hours apply a carbolic acid solution in alcohol and water as an evaporating lotion, with internal medicine not used. He asserts nearly all cases clear within forty-eight hours and disappears within three days.
The French explorer G. Mingaud recounted a water adder placed in a wire cage. The snake first tried to escape by pushing through bars with its head and neck, then lay convulsing briefly. It devoured a four inch lizard breakfast and then crawled through the bars with ease.
Readable fragments describe a native poison from upas tree bark causing irritation and death when applied to skin. A private revenge method hides the liquid to kill a victim by morning. Also described is an Indian rain maker using ether and a rocket delivering a delayed spray to induce a brief shower.
A Cleveland Leader quotation notes confusion over a minister’s fate saying he died but would be blamed if forced to resign, reflecting political tensions surrounding leadership.
A Christmas Eve ritual in Devon and Somerset features a green ash fagot burned on the hearth at 8 o'clock. Family and guests gather as flames lick the handle and the first bond breaks to signal a toast of A Merry Christmas. Legend ties ash wood fires to Bethlehem and local lore recalls Alfred the Great during his wanderings.
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