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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1907
Page
2
The author argues rural prosperity hinges on supporting local merchants to prevent depopulation and monopoly caused by mail order houses. He warns that sending money to distant catalogs drains towns, weakens schools and churches, and depresses land values. Farm communities must buy locally to keep markets, rail service, and local improvement alive.
Englishman Alfred Mosely funds commissions to study the United States praising Gardner F Williams, an American diamond mining engineer who led South Africa’s diamond industry. Williams rose from Michigan to California mining, then South Africa, later retiring to build a home in the United States.
A brief warning urges readers to keep money in their home bank rather than sending funds to mail order houses. The home bank is portrayed as the safer place with favorable interest, while mail order outfits are linked to risks demonstrated by the Cash Buyer's Union collapse.
A city merchant who once gave a crossing sweeper sixpence each Saturday mistook a half sovereign for change. He returned after 4 o clock to verify. The sweeper, now neatly dressed, claimed receipts were up and returned the half sovereign, adding the sixpence was forgotten.
The text traces how the term hurricane evolved from early forms such as huracay and furacan used by Caribbean navigators and how different spellings appeared in English. It notes the influence of Portuguese and Spanish and contrasts old spellings with the eventual adoption of hurricane.
Microscopically examined, the hippo’s bloody sweat contains colorless bodies like blood corpuscles and pink crystalline clusters forming red like triradiate forms. The colored and colorless matter are exuded via skin pores that show activity only after the animal leaves the water.
A German bacteriologist tested typhoid in mice and observed healthy mice in a separate cage later contracting typhoid. Investigators found ants traveling between cages carrying typhoid germs on their bodies, transferring the infection from sick to healthy mice.
He recounted a hairbreadth escape abroad with a young girl leaning in and hanging on his words. He claimed they were close enough to see the wolves muzzles and she gasped at the danger and relief.
Fragmentary OCR noise describes a townspeople warning a visitor, noting dogs and a cookery school. The piece mentions a sap factory and a town name similar to B. A.-Illustrated Bits, with abrupt interjections and quirky dialogue.
The dialogue shows a father questioning the time while Ethel in another room states it is four quarters past ten. He instructs to adjust the clock grain after the MEA leaves to fetch breakfast, emphasizing a routine morning task.
A local tale centers on Mr. Goode praising honesty while Mr. Cayenne proposes testing a man with an umbrella after doubting his honesty about a pin. The dialogue highlights skepticism and wit in a small community exchange.
An artist shapes a stone into a statue while a mason uses another stone to form a doorstep. The item contrasts craft roles with stone work.
A recollection of childhood terror and hard lessons as a mother enforced grim tasks. The speaker recalls handling a beetle and frogs and nursing a skeleton, while listening to two old lunatics. Over time fear faded into pity.
A correspondent notes Bismarck’s association with the number three, citing three masters, three names, three wars, three treaties, and three leaders. The piece references his three horses killed in war and three expatriate images, highlighting pervasive triadic imagery in his life.
The Stornoway area lighthouse region features a long used coastal safety device. It marks dangerous rocks and channels, guiding ships and warning mariners while the light and structure remain a steady safeguard along Scotland’s northern coast.
The Ohio State Journal distinguishes three cooking kinds: negative no cooking that spoils material, neutral eating without awareness or pleasure, and positive cooking where mind and heart refine the meal like a sculptor shaping Venus or an artist blending otherworldly tints.
John Trevisa describes the hyena as cruel and wolfish in gluttony and deceit. He claims it can change sexes, mimic human voices, and lure humans by feigning speech to capture and devour them, as part of his Natural History commentary.
A home anecdote from Loudon Tit-Lits describes young Johnnie with two bantam hens that laid tiny eggs, then discovering an ostrich egg tied to a beam with a placard urging vigilance and effort.
A humorous exchange contrasts affection for animals with a caution about horses on the race track. Mrs. Torkins sighs that a horse can become a fool friend who causes trouble when racing.
A brief humorous dialogue from a Philadelphia Telegraph item where a mother and Tommy recall a memory lapse over t jam with playful blame and forgetfulness. The line juxtaposes punishment and memory in a domestic exchange.
The quote notes a pivotal moment when he joined the circus as a tumbler marking a major life change according to De Style. The exchange is framed as turning point conversation with Gunbusta in a New York Times reference.
Quote from Fielding warning about careful speech. Message warns readers to consider audience and consequences of their comments in conversation and public discourse.
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