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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1923
Page
7
A druggist sells Hair-Groom for a few cents, claiming it keeps unruly or shampooed hair neat all day in any chosen style. The greaseless, stainless formula is absorbed by the scalp so the hair remains soft pliable and natural without revealing the product’s use.
A feature on a well laid out 50 cow dairy barn and 14 foot silo detailing labor saving devices. It covers concrete manure pit reasoning, timber choices, cork brick flooring, boulder wall options, gambrel roof space, carrier tracks, hay chutes, drinking fountains, ventilation, manure drains, two calf pens, and aesthetic tile work to inspire local farmers toward profitable, efficient farm buildings.
Viola I Paradise and Helen Campbell describe how returned immigrants shape housing abroad. In Slovakia new homes rise next to old ones funded by American earnings. Southern Italian hills show detached houses signaling savings and escape from crowded towns. Albanian Kordia adapts American style with iron fences and garden fronts, as ex migrants deem walls less necessary now that the nation is independent.
In an eastern city a fine arts committee refused a statue funded by the board of trade for the town's first mayor. The present mayor summoned leading citizens and asked why the sculptor failed to capture a likeness, noting the work appeared to be by a marble cutter who knew no better.
A French explorer discovered a bun shaped loaf over 2400 years old, dated to 560 B C. The bread was preserved in excellent condition, wrapped in cloth and sealed within a sarcophagus, suggesting careful burial and preservation.
Edmund J. Kiefer notes love defies time and space and can make people happily miserable in a reflective line about love’s power and limits. The passage frames love as a rare treasure and universal force across ranks and distances.
A white hunter in East Africa went temporarily blind after bathing in a river suggesting a water born element. An ocean bed testing device can sample and grade seabed to seven miles depth. Two Amazon fish with winglike fins arrive in London valued at $100 a pair. A French inventor piloted a bicycle with wings, achieving several short flights up to 12 yards at three feet high.
A mother and two sons go to church when the favorite son accidentally wears his brother's shoe. After being told to wear his own, he returns with mismatched footwear again. He whispers that he has both of Bob’s shoes on but realizes he changed the wrong one.
Harvard astronomers at the Peruvian observatory report photographing 2000 new suns forming in luminous spiral nebulae. They expect these suns to develop solar systems, with smaller fragments becoming planets. Professor Holden of Lick once noted hundreds of thousands of uncharted nebulae, suggesting many remain undiscovered.
A terse line ponders marriage with humor noting that commitment is likened to being stranded rather than anchored for life. The dialogue hints at a theme of permanence and irony in romantic plans.
A city worker may earn more than a farmhand yet incurs greater expenses. The contrast highlights urban earnings versus cost of living, suggesting debates over pay equity and budget allocations for municipal employees.
In a quirky column from the London Mail a punchy quip frames a new maid as the Wireless Wonder because she is always listening in. An ad-note promises dazzling baby dresses using Red Cross Ball Blue in laundry with a call to shop at good grocers.
Adventure Magazine recounts Roy Bean as a legendary saloon keeper who presided over a makeshift courtroom in his Texas saloon. A visiting tourist paid with a $20 bill and was fined $19.50 for disturbing the peace after a dispute over change.
Hiram four accompanies his mother to dinner when his grandfather collects them in his new car. A heater is found in the rear compartment, and the boy exclaims to his aunt about the automobile furnace as they arrive.
A four year old minister's daughter Elizabeth seeks a doll during a nap break and proclaims that every time she goes upstairs the Lord enters her heart. Her mother embraces the girl, moved by the child’s heartfelt spirituality.
A light domestic incident unfolds as a wife warns of a burned cheek from a curling iron while a husband jokes he smelled burning paint, highlighting a frazzled home scene with a comic undertone.
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