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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1900
Page
3
Osborn and Miles advertises a refitted barn on South Third Street offering secure storage for all kinds of property at reasonable rates and horse care. Call on me. FB. Trsons, Prep.
Friday February 9th marks the next reunion with pupils presenting a play Lemmy Drayton's Fortunes and Misfortunes. An admission of 10 cents funds the poor, while pupils such as Clyde Graham Lizzie Ward and others contributed drawings and recitations.
Protracted meeting at Burnside Chapel draws attendees. Local residents visit relatives and friends across Prairie Creek and nearby areas including Keller, Greenley, Elwell, Boner, and Ora Miller households. Notable items include illness improvement of Eva Keerns and burial of Amanda Rushing at Cooper's cemetery.
Paducah Kentucky resident W L Yancy credits Foley's Kidney Cure with curing a severe kidney disease after three doctors failed. A separate ad urges readers to take Rocky Mountain Tea for vitality at age 60 and promotes individual effort and self-improvement with a drugstore recommendation.
A portrait of John D. Rockefeller Jr. detailing his early career at the Standard Oil circle. The piece notes his railroad directorship with the Delaware Lackawanna and Western in 1899, Brown University honors, discipline, private office, and frugal lifestyle. It highlights his quiet public life, music hobby, riding, and Sundays teaching at the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church.
An old cereal style advertisement claims kidney health benefits from Dr Hobbs eight and s pills. It mentions free samples and markets to Chicago or New York.
Advert shows Dr King’s New Life Pills as a safe cure for digestive and bodily ailments. Claims effectiveness on stomach liver kidneys bowels and nerves with a 25 cent price at Leroy Allen’s drug store.
An old advertisement touts Cascarets as a blood and liver cleanser to improve skin appearance. It claims benefits against pimples boils blotches and bilious complexions with a 10 25 or 50 cent price and satisfaction guarantee.
The bronze spinning top by Prof Charles Jacobus, longtime New Brunswick school superintendent now in Springfield, astonishes engineers in New York and Philadelphia. He demonstrated it before the Boston Society of Civil Engineers, spinning it for an hour to show a perfectly balanced mechanism. The top weighs about four ounces, is winded with ten inches of string, and remains upright after spinning unless jarred. Jacobus uses the top in lectures to illustrate balanced, symmetrical design.
Fragmentary OCR shows scattered daily and Sunday service notes with numbers like No 2 4 10 74 24 and times such as 8 55 am and 22 22 pm, lacking clear context or complete sentences. No clear event or entity beyond timetable fragments.
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