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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1910
Page
7
The article discusses ship lanes and navigation by sea, noting ships move between ports along defined routes. It compares sea travel to rail for directness and explains how the Panama Canal’s completion could shift oceanic traffic and commercial routes across the hemisphere.
The article discusses global leather scarcity as hides and skins are hunted worldwide. It notes growing leather use in novelties and, especially, automobile manufacture, foreshadowing higher prices for spread steer hides and changes in the leather market.
A fragment mentions a Berlin New Yorker describing a popular newspaper seller with a rod and coin pocket. It notes U S Navy vessel naming for torpedo boats and lists five officers as potential names. Also references cyclone cellars, Bavarian beer consumption, and a Popular Mechanics novelty.
A collage of warped phrases and jumbled quotes from multiple papers includes snippets on forgery, moral rebukes, and wit. It features exchanges about crime and town benefit, botanical fables, quack medicine jokes, and satirical notices drawn from Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Baltimore, and Louisville sources.
A Bronx Zoo observer notes how neck flexibility varies by species. A flamingo has more neck bones than a swan, while a giraffe surprisingly has only seven, and a small sparrow fourte en bones allow it to reach its head.
A fragmentary history traces the plebeians in ancient Rome seceding to Mons Sacer in 497 B C to demand rights. It notes the granting of tribunes and later full political access over two centuries, leading to a democratic form of government. Also referenced are shifts in language on sweat and a humorous tale about borrowing with a silver dollar piece.
A Harrmen woman offered a quick identification for a check cashed at a Newark establishment. The cashier required ID, and the woman replied that she could be recognized by a mole on her cheek, demonstrating she could prove her identity.
Fragmentary lines show a confused speaker addressing a loved one with garbled phrases about thunder and syllables. The text reads like a surreal, incomplete verse or dialogue with references to a person named Matte Sing and Lippincett's.
A scattered Newark style clipping presents humorous quotes about ideas and relations. A Boston Transcript jab contrasts idealism with marriage and a French proverb notes social ascent as a ladder.
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