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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1912
Page
6
New Orleans reports a grim excavation as workers prep to remove Babe’s grave beneath Fort McComb ruins for a $75,000 Louisiana Motor league club case. The site harbors venomous reptiles in underground chambers. a white headstone marks the infant grave of 1888 Sergeant Smith’s child.
A Decker Avenue family tale ends in chaos as five year old Johnnie Kane tethered a large crab to a dining chair. Uncle William Tennyson yelps thinking a scorpion has stung him, while Johnnie calmly retrieves the crab for a supper. A separate note records Charles W. Glidden setting a corn eating mark by consuming 58 ears in 55 minutes.
Leonard Bliss a.k.a. Baby of Bloomington is named defendant in a state suit brought by Attorney General W. R. Bach to compel him and his brother to support their aged widow mother. Leonard ordered to pay 10 dollars a month, brother 20. Bliss known for immense size and amiable temperament, once toured Europe by bicycle and starred in sideshows.
A Charleston area church, Old Saint James at Goose Creek, is noted as perhaps the only American church outside Virginia with the English royal coat of arms. Built in 1703 and preserved, it features a Queen Anne gift coat of arms from 1704 and a pelican seal from the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. During the Revolution British troops spared the building after seeing the queen’s mark.
In Lagrange Georgia Seth Boyle a Black worker was struck on the head by a 12 pound steel weight that fell 88 feet from an elevator shaft at the Lagrange Ice and Fuel company plant. Doctors found no head injury though the weight was cracked into three pieces.
A fourteen year old English princess endures a strict education and duties. She studies languages modern history art music and homemaking while learning dairying riding and etiquette. Court rules require courtiers to address her as ma am and she faces a busy, formal life despite royal status.
An article explains how different wallpapers reflect light. White blotting paper reflects four fifths, while ordinary foolscap reflects seven tenths. Brightest options include white figured and white and gold, chrome yellow, orange, and yellow papers, with light blue absorbing most of the light.
A guide lists common ribbon widths and their corresponding numbers to help buyers choose the right size. Principal sizes include No 1 for 8 18 inches, No 1 2 for 3 14 inches, No 2 for 2 12 inches, No 6 for 15 16 inches, No 7 for 13 16 inches, No 9 for 1 4 inches, No 12 for 11 10 inches, No 16 for 2 4 inches, No 40 for 3 4 inches, and No 60 for 4 inches with other intermediate widths available.
Lexington celebrates Gen. John H. Morgan, famed Confederate cavalry raider. Kentucky funded part of a monumental statue by Pompeo Coppini, with private gifts and Daughters of the Confederacy support. Morgan led raids from 1861 into Indiana and Kentucky, crossed rivers, fought Union forces, and died Sept. 4, 1864 near Greenville Tennessee.
In Boston a grocer’s clerk sent a romantic sonnet to a girl who wrote her name on a squash can label. The canner replies that she has married and started a family, and that he should have written sooner as times have changed since he labeled the squash.
Uncle Jim Norland aged eighty nine wed Miss Sallie Brown a thirteen year old schoolgirl in Sergent Kentucky in a compressed wedding notice reflecting era norms and local reporting style.
A fragmented text shows Eli Myers presenting as a planter seeking investment in Louisiana lands. It includes quotes from Norman J. Coleman Eugene Fuack Fred H Rankin and William E Curtis praising soil and crops. The piece mentions Delta country yields and a tour by men from multiple states noting climate impressions.
The piece extols Louisiana farming potential with crops like cotton cane rice corn oats and more and promotes plantation listings near Waterproof and Lake St Peter. It highlights river access rail links and the Panama Canal impact while urging Northern buyers to invest in large tracts with detailed prices and terms. It naming J A Jenkins of Frankfort Ind and Eli Myers as contacts for land trips.
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