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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1907
Page
6
The story recounts Ben Tillman of South Carolina arriving in the capital and cashing a money order. A clerk asks if he has identification. Tillman, lacking letters, shows a wallet photo. The clerk confirms it is him and pays out the cash.
An old western mining town affray ended in murder. Senator Thurston of Nebraska helped secure a harsher punishment, then a gunman claiming Hurley’s pardon came to repay. The man demanded mob justice if the town disliked anyone, provoking a tense street test.
An ex post office official serving time in Moundsville for graft on multiple counts refused interviews with Washington reporters. He told the warden to convey that he is not in the mood to see them, signaling defiance amid the jail visit rush.
A fragment from Harper's Weekly recounts a squire offering a brother of a hired man a wage while debating whether a horse driven vehicle should be spoken of as male or female. A hotel exchange mocks gendered language for objects with a car named Walter.
A lively exchange unfolds as an author questions why Miss Maddison attends first nights. The discussion centers on audience influence and the special weight a premiere carries for critics and readers.
Fragmentary social chatter from a 19th century page shows conversational snippets about storms, a person named Jenkins and whisky, and a playful exchange between imagined columnists including references to Woman's Home Companion and Catheils Standard and Times.
A fragment describes a family scene with Bol calling to Jane as Paw sits nearby. Papa checks on the quiet couple and notes their closeness, while Bill asks for a kiss and the light is dimmed for an intimate moment in December Bohemian.
The excerpt features Pat, a yard worker, claiming he can run an engine. He tests the locomotive inside a house, pulling levers and turning the machine on and off, causing chaos in the roundhouse while the yardmaster questions his claim. The anecdote ends with Pat’s witty reply about the door.
Little Willie cried when miscalling words in class, mistaking pneumonia as ne umonia and neuralgia as pneu rulgia. His mother learns from the judge’s library that spelling errors led to lashes.
The St Louis Republic recalls a North Carolina judge famed for angling but famed equally for poor memory of fish weights. A friend baited him with asking the weight of a big catfish, and the judge asked his waiter Bob to recall the weight from yesterday. The tale preserves the judge as humorous and scatterbrained, with dialogue reflecting casual dining talk.
A humorous vignette from Woman's Home Companion about a man shaving in a mirror while his wife asks if he is shaving. He answers that he is blocking the kitchen range and questions her whereabouts. The piece playfully contrasts wasteful questions with a domestic misdirection.
Weary Walker cites belief that starting work on Friday is unlucky while Ragson Tatters responds that it could become sensible in time as people adjust to daily routines. The Boston Transcript conveys a light exchange on superstitions guiding work starts.
Mrs Starvem welcomes newcomer Mr Silmmn to their boarding house. She jokes that boarders often get fat, and the guest agrees that boarding houses are cheaper than eating meat, a light exchange highlighted by the Philadelphia Press.
A compilation notes several elderly figures and honors: Professor Goldwin Smith willed his brain to Cornell University. James Carne, 100 plus, serves as parish clerk at St Columb Minor. Eli J. Cook, Belfast, 101, is the oldest Maine pensioned veteran of the 1839 Aroostook War. Anni Vian Ness and James Wetcone, both 50s, wed after 17 years of care for parents. Dr Wilfrid T. Grenfell gains a companion of St Michael and St George. Senator George S. Nixon reports 20 million from Goldfield mines after a career in banking and media. Lord Knollys runs royal correspondence with ministers’ approval. J Al Priest elected mayor of Stratford-upon-Avon. Colbourne reelected alderman after 33 years. General Daniel TH Rucker, 95, in Washington, ties to Sheridan and Sherman, with frontier service and Mexican and Civil War histories. Bronson Howard blames the tired businessman for poor stage quality, calling for a shift away from catering to leisure.
Policemen describe an Italian beggar as an unknown quantity in New York. An electric current in copper travels 465 500 000 meters per second while the fastest ocean liner moves at 0.8 meters per second. The Y M C A plans to station an army secretary in the Arctic to visit Yukon posts with a launch, snowshoes, and dog sledge. The Wadsworth library at Geneseo receives 5 000 volumes valued at 50 000 dollars from the late Martin Brimmer of Boston, a rare book specialist and distant Wadsworth relative.
A collage of brief quotes from assorted papers lampoons reforms and social norms. It notes simplified spelling delays in Congress, Mary Walker on marriage, autos with travel conveniences, slang in British peers debates, and odd hazards of new car fittings.
The New York Herald notes city education spending of 21 520 000 annually and cites the fire alarm system as the most antiquated among large world cities. It also highlights NYC hotels and service as leading globally and mentions a San Juan bill block bounded by West Sixty first and Sixty second streets Amsterdam and West End avenues with 6 173 residents as the most populous block.
A Wise Fellow recounts how he escaped a persistent suitor who kept talking about his baby. He says a stranger who bought an automobile intervened and facilitated his departure, allowing him to slip away.
The empire look leads over princess and empire styles with surplice and shirtwaists popular. Modistes show lace coats in empire sack or pony negligee lines worn over light silk slips tied with ribbons. Tea gowns return to drawing rooms. market floods with passementeries, embroideries, jeweled bands and jet trends. Japanese designs lead in negligee jackets and bathrobes.
The Love Route and The Social Whirl lead praise on tour while Louise Gunning shines in The Flower Girl in Chicago. Ethel Houston debuts as Madam Butterfly contralto, and Vera Michelena with her father Fernando, a famed tenor, emerge from modest beginnings toward prominent opera stages.
A collection of cited final utterances from notable figures across ages. Napoleon Bonaparte, John Adams, Napoleon III, Horatio Nelson, Ludwig van Beethoven, John Quincy Adams, Sir Walter Scott, Dwight Moody—each Linked to a dramatic moment as life ended.
A fragment reports surviving satin dated bank notes from 1798 and notes 2.5 million cycles in use in Britain. It lists counts of Jewish peers and baronets, and Jews in Parliament. It cites patent medicines sales and the London Christian World noting a chapel consecration and a mistaken Rhode Island reference by a bishop.
A humorous collection of rewritten proverbs mocks old sayings about love, work, and appearances. The piece toys with notions of marriage, integrity, and judgment, presenting wry insights on modern behavior and social roles.
A short reflection on fatigue with pretension and the gap between talk and behavior. It notes the human bias to admire clever talk while judging real actions as foolish, using examples of impulsive buying and exaggerated praise. The piece concludes with a critique of how people judge others based on superficial talk rather than conduct.
Emily Pierson 23, of 223 West 120th Street New York, enters Supreme Court seeking custody of five year old Cecilia from mother in law Catherine Kerson at 19 West Tenth Street. While visiting St Luke’s Church, Emily discovers intended groom is her estranged husband Edward Pierson, who appears at altar with another bride. ceremony halts and Pierson flees, Cecelia identifies him as father.
A Melbourne husband staying out till 3 am attempts to bluff his wife with a late bath. He undresses, fills the tub, and scrubs furiously until his wife enters, asking why he keeps his under clothes on. He replies he is taking a bath, and she leaves with a pointed remark.
Mrs. Aletta McCullough a middle aged widow in Division street dresses in men’s clothes and roofs her house alone. She ties a rope to a chimney for safety and finishes the job despite neighbors’ surprised stares and a wind day.
Secretary H T Hudson of the state auditor s department has a sitting hen that has adopted a litter of ten day old motherless pups. The hen tended the pups in a bare nest in a field house and soon sheltered them under her wings, acting as their mother and guarding the brood with clucking care.
D F Hall of West Virginia leaped through a train window near Logana port Ind while the Pennsylvania train ran at full speed. He said sleep loss and exhaustion caused the act after dozing from Columbia. He intended to reach Vartigo Mich and is expected to recover.
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