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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1902
Page
8
A scattered collection notes thumb nail art seen in China and Japan with long left-hand nails used as pens, then trimmed to points for ink outlines. It also surveys language shifts like I guess from English usage and includes snippets from humorous exchanges and old newspaper quips.
Seventy Sioux and other Buffalo Bill actors traveled Sunday night through the city aboard the Big Four en route from the west to New York and then to Europe for an extended tour with the popular Wild West show.
Artist Castaigne portrays Brittany as a land of carved granite houses and busy markets where peasants in zouave trousers and red skirts barter fresh produce from Roscoff. Fishermen hurry to and from the harbor as women cry and children gaze, while taverns buzz with accordions and bagpipes. Next week many will depart for a new country.
The piece debates how literary fame shifts and wonders if great works lie hidden amid ruins awaiting accidental rediscovery. It notes Deuteronomy’s near loss and Hezekiah’s rediscovery, alongside writers like Shakespeare, Omar Khayyam, and Lorna Doone rising to prominence after obscurity.
English society once treated Thomas Carlyle with reverent delight even as he acted like an ignorant boor, sometimes sitting unbidden in royal presence. An English bishop later introduced him to Freeman as the distinguished scholar who illustrates our ancestors' savagery.
Cold water with ice is advised when acids or alkalis burn the skin. If nitric or nitriol spills, immerse the burned limb in cold water to dilute the acid. If the burn from acid injury occurs, keep the area in water and add soda to render the water alkaline to counteract the acid.
A brief nugget from the Atchison Globe notes that a single fern in a jardiniere and two small sprouts in tin cans in a window grant the owner the right to call the display a fernery.
The fragment speaks metaphorically of men acting as telescopes you draw out to see through then shut away, implying a critique of selective perception and the narrowing visibility of truth through human lenses.
The school system announces closure for two weeks ending after Christmas with students and staff released for the holiday period.
Henry Tuttle of Williamsport and James Ritenour of Lafayette, visiting, were found unconscious from gas fumes between Friday evening and Sunday morning on Tuttle's farm two miles west of Williamsport. Hope remains but recovery seems doubtful as they lie unconscious.
The week’s rain halted corn husking and closed the elevator due to wet, ragged shucking. Rabbit hunters are active and rabbits forced to retreat to their holes. Andy Beckett Charlie Correll and Ed Spencer serve on the petit jury this week and reside in the city of rocks.
In a Chicago Tribune quip, Uncle Jed laments a Bermudas trip noting onions did not meet expectations. He adds he has eaten finer Bermuda onions locally, delivering a dry local-paper style joke about travel and produce.
In a Philadelphia Press exchange Polk questions Simkins wealth. Polk asserts Simkins has no real property though others claim he owns a house. Simkins is said to call his dwelling “is down.”
A claim for Foley's Kidney Cure asserts it restores kidney and bladder function. No medical evidence is provided in the notice. The advertisement targets readers seeking relief from urinary issues.
Dr. Sailor his wife and family spent part of Thanksgiving week visiting Pine Village as guests of Mr Sailor's mother and relatives.
Mr and Mrs Lewis Hetfield of Hillsboro were here Thursday Friday and Saturday as guests of relatives and many friends. Everyone is glad to see them.
Miss Carrie Hendrickson of Attica, employed by the Sterling Remedy Company, spent Thursday and Friday of last week visiting her hometown and relatives.
Mary Adkins aged about sixty five died at noon Thursday at her home east of the city from pneumonia. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. tomorrow with burial at Mt Hope.
Charles R. Brown visited friends and relatives into the latter part of last week. C. R. Milford and Weslf Whicker, two of Attica's prominent attorneys, were in that Monday. Miss Mattie Burnwood, M Will Fugate and son Leo of Attica spent Thanksgiving with Mrs. Henry Hendrick. Editors Shuler Hills by Robert Osborn Ca ues aidG Williams Attica were all in wait Monday looking at interests.
Trustee W. E. B. Fine, or Jack, visited the city Monday. He is making an excellent truth and his schools are among the best in the county with a full corps of teachers.
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