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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1908
Page
3
Practical guidance on horse care hoof health and shoeing, dairy improvements, crop rotation, and poultry feeding. Emphasizes open air barns, vermin control, varied livestock diets, and record keeping to boost farm profitability.
Cloverport Kentucky Police Judge J. H. Wills offers to answer inquiries from backache kidney and bladder sufferers about Dean's Kidney Pills. He endorses the remedy as the best he has known and provides his willingness to respond to questions in writing. Sold by all dealers at 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
A pair of British visitors browsed Indian curios on Fifth Avenue choosing baskets beads wampum and moccasins as they considered a gaudy peace pipe and a tomahawk. The husband recalls Washingtons hatchet provoking amused disagreement with his wife.
Secretary of the treasury announced a call on national banks to return about 35 million dollars of public funds. About 25 percent of inactive deposits of 190000 or more and 25 percent of active deposits of 100000 or more will be withdrawn with two payments by March 9 and March 23. Advices from across the country say this withdrawal will not harm financial conditions.
A Denver churchgoer testified that two Italians near St. Elizabeth's before Father Leo Heinrichs was shot by Giuseppe Guarnaccio. Police re detained Mike Brunetti, Guarnaccio's roommate, as part of a theory that a well planned murder plot by anarchists targeted the priest.
The Supreme Court ruled that the Hepburn act does not repeal section one of the Elkins act prohibiting railroad rebates in the Great Northern Railway Company v United States. The Minnesota district court fined the railroad $1,000 for each of 15 violations of the Elkins act.
London reports the latest defense estimates for the army and navy show a combined increase of 3,000,000 dollars for the current year, contrary to peace party hopes for reductions. The figures imply no near prospect of substantial diminutions.
A brief pistol of dialogue shows Minister accusing the men of bending to money while Meandering Mike remarks that some fellows will even work for it. The exchange hints at a broader conflict over corruption or bribery in the scene.
The dialogue depicts a domestic scene where one partner jokes about someone named Dickums doing a lot of work at the office last night. The other responds with affectionate disbelief, noting time passing quickly and that Dickums was not out late.
Hale Bordwell of Tipton Iowa describes a 55 year struggle with an itching frightful eczema. He reports no relief from many medicines until he used Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills, eight months later saying he is cured. Nelson R. Burnett of Tipton endorses the testimony as truth.
An English resident, Edward B. Norris, decries Brazil's illiteracy and sexism. Official figures show 80 percent illiteracy and women as little more than chattels, with early marriages and grandmothers by age 30.
A Washington market poultryman gets ribbed by a customer over a "St Patrick rooster" missing lungs. The punchline notes the bird never crows and jokily suggests adding lungs next time. The quip reflects comic wordplay in a New York Press line.
A six year old girl named Marion struggles with French and slang as her anxious parents hire a governess. A new tutor provokes a sharp remark when Marion says she dislikes her instructor because she is “altogether too particular about that damned subjunctive.”
One way tickets on sale daily throughout March and April from all points on The North Western Line to San Francisco Los Angeles Portland and Puget Sound. Daily tours in tourist sleeping cars via Chicago Union Pacific Northwestern Line. Double berth only 7.00 through from Chicago. For details write S A Hutchison Manager Tourist Dept 212 Clark St Chicago Ill or contact nearest ticket agent.
The liquor industry notes Americans spend less on liquor annually than on chewing gum medicines candy perfumes and hair oil Yet the text asserts Americans must have hair oil highlighting consumer habits in a light social remark.
J Ransom A Youngblood former president of Coal Belt National Bank Benton and Salem Bank Salem Ark admitted embezzling 17000 dollars from Coal Belt bank. He was sentenced to an indeterminate term of one to 14 years at Chester penitentiary.
Louis Bacher, 45, killed his sister Mrs. Jerome Lewis, 55, at their Medina home on Monday and then inflicted likely fatal wounds on himself. This marks the second double tragedy in the family within six months.
Oklahoma Governor C N Haskell sent a directive to Attorney General West urging legal steps to dissolve an alleged merger between the Rock Island and the St Louis and San Francisco railways in the state.
A high profile New Yorker died by self-inflicted action. Authorities identified the decedent as L. Munger, a prominent local figure, and the case is being handled as a suspected suicide with no foul play evident.
A brief exchange about an engagement questions a woman's knowledge of Mr Newnan. Aunt Keturah cautions that knowing little about a man should deter marriage while the other replies that no woman who knows anything about a man should marry him.
Bilkins moved from New York to Boston and visited a butcher. He asked for a porterhouse but the proprietor replied with urban courtesy that they were not giving anything away this morning. The vignette from Harper's Weekly captures tone and city contrast.
In a talk with E. H. Harriman, John Muir asserts wealth is not essential. He says he values simple comforts like sleeping by an old spring in the Sierras over owning the Waldorf Astoria, illustrating his preference for nature over opulence.
An ivy plant growing in a crevice of the tower at St. J the Baptist church in Yarnborough undermined the foundation by lifting stones, requiring about $3,000 for repairs.
The passage promotes Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as preferred remedies. It urges customers to buy genuine Fig Syrup Co. products only for benefits and mentions price at fifty per bottle through leading druggists.
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