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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1901
Page
3
Edward J. Martin of Covington Indiana advertises dental services promising relief for a range of tooth defects. The message promotes early care and notes availability of artificial replacements if natural teeth are missing.
Reports of jewelry displays at Cheney's and M. Board's as well as a string of injuries. Harry C. Randolph Sr. was badly bruised after being thrown from a load of corn near Silverwood. James Gates was killed instantly by a fast westbound train near State Line. Multiple patent notices, local real estate transfers in Fountain County, and various advertisements appear, including dry goods, shoes, and Miller Bakery crackers.
A nervy stranger enters an up town college club with tattered clothes and asks the steward for ten cents, a luncheon, and whisky. He flatters the man and muses on how the steward could have been fooled, then walks away. The scene ends with him contemplating how to obtain lunch without paying.
The advertisement touts Ayer's Pills as a remedy for biliousness and constipation. It describes them as a gentle laxative and liver medicine, claiming health benefits and urging readers to try the product.
An advertisement extols DeWitt's Little Early Risers as a safe remedy to improve liver function and bowel regularity without griping. It includes a testimonial from J W Bryan of Fowler Illinois about a child's recovery from pneumonia after using Foley's Honey and Tar, and promotes Springfield Missouri as a travel hub with Frisco System rates and a general agent in St. Louis.
A miscellaneous treatise lists etiquette rules carved on a tablet in the St. Petersburg Museum of Art era and a discussion on the terrapin sickness tied to ribs. It includes anecdotes of an Alabama town post office and a humorous exchange with a janitor about reciprocity of situation and home feeling.
The undersigned offer a full refund on a 50 cent bottle of Greene's Warranted Syrup of Tariff if it fails to cure cough or cold. A 25 cent bottle is also offered with a similar satisfaction guarantee. Le Roy Alen.
In Fountain County Indiana a non-resident defendants notice announces that Wallace Overly Melvin Overly William Overly and William Harper must appear at the Fountain Circuit Court in Covington on the ninth day of the next term beginning January 1 1903 to answer or demur to a complaint to quiet title to real estate in Indiana. The notice is dated December 5 1902 and signed by Clerk H G Schlosser with attorney C M McOaugh.
George N. Lape of Covington Indiana seeks a license to sell spirituous vinous malt and intoxicating liquors in less than a quart on premises a two story brick building at 2nd Ward Covington Washington Street fronting 38 by 18 feet on East side lot 131 Old Plat notice posted to govern January term court.
A historical reflection on kindness, comparing scornful and civil responses. The author cites a French king and a proverb about lighting another’s candle without dimming one’s own, praising mild temper and shared happiness.
A brief fragment from Baltimore Jewish Comment shows a magistrate ask a Chinaman about a complaint against a young man named John. The reply notes the issue being the man is too much by and by.
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