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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1911
Page
2
In Covington Indiana a couple argues over six dollars to see Sarah Bernhardt. He balks at the expense and jokes about borrowing more for family members while she presses for the theater outing and a dress upgrade. He ultimately quips that nine beans is all they can spend.
In Dun fallandy near Pitlochry the high flood on the Tummel left a boat with nine to ten inches of water where a twenty pound salmon leaped in during the night. Oarsman Stewart Fergusson retrieved the fish using a long pole, revived it in clean water, and the salmon swam away.
Rawcliffe, the Carlisle wife murderer, asked to hear a hymn read and then sang Sun of My Soul with calm resolve in the jail chapel. The chaplain and officers were moved to tears as the doomed man requested one final song.
A recent Oberlin bulletin shows 26 women wholly self-supporting and 54 partially self-supporting. Of the 80 self-supporting, 40 teach school, 11 do office work, 14 house work, 7 nursemaids, 11 tutors, 1 companion, 1 music teacher, and 1 curio saleswoman. Others hold roles such as playground assistant, library assistant, post office assistant, artist, rug weaving, clerk, market gardening and seamstress.
A satirical note from Columbia State discusses the so called jimswinger style. It describes the frock coat skirt length reaching the knees or lower and a low cut vest exposing shirt studs as a statesman walks with confident unconsciousness.
A fragment from a historical column notes a child’s blunt appetite during a meal. The speaker recalls the kid’s insistence on seconds and honesty in saying he wanted more rather than offering polite assistance. The tone hints at social commentary.
A fragment from Pele Mele features a line about not fighting a duel and explains the hats pins bought for a wife. The exchange hints at humorous miscommunication and domestic preoccupations.
Washington reports the organizing of the National Progressive Republican League by progressive senators, representatives, and governors. The group backs direct election of U S senators, direct primaries, direct election of delegates, initiative and referendum, recall, and a broad corrupt practices act. Officials named include Bourne, Norris, Osborn, Crane, and an executive committee.
Andrew Carnegie increases the Carnegie Institution to a total endowment of 25 million dollars. He also announces a cement making formula and a 100 inch telescope for Mount Wilson, where 60,000 new worlds were discovered. He clears a British captain of blame using updated Admiralty charts and predicts future celestial revelations.
In Vermilion county, 125 subpoenas were issued by the vote fraud grand jury after six Danville bankers testified about vote buying leading to former County Treasurer Hardy H. Whitlock's downfall. Foreman Isaac Woodward seeks indictments under criminal conspiracy law, possibly reaching mayor and judges elected in the past three years.
Chicago reports Attorney Charles E. Erbstein was acquitted of bribing a juror in a bid to show Lee O Neil Browne not guilty of buying votes for William Lorimer’s U.S. Senate seat. The Browne trial ended with acquittal, followed by juror Grant McCutchen revealing he sold his vote through a friend.
Reports from Augusta Georgia say Bill Johnson a Black man who killed railroad brakeman D C Humphrey was burned at the stake by a mob that seized him from jail near Avera Georgia The mob claims the man escaped during the uprising.
President Taft will attend Lincoln day exercises in Springfield on February 11. He will speak to the Illinois legislature in the afternoon at a joint session and deliver an evening Lincoln address.
Edward W. Hurley assistant grand chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers died of typhoid pneumonia at the Broadway Central hotel in New York. His home was Boston.
Miss Augusta Belasco daughter of David Belasco married William Elliott at the Hotel Marie Antoinette Sunday. Elliott recently added to his stage reputation with Madame X.
A powder mill explosion at Fayville, Illinois, about 20 miles north of Cairo, Saturday killed three men and injured several workers. The blast caused the shock to be felt in Cairo.
In a close roll call at the eleventh Indiana Retail Merchants association convention, Gary narrowly won the next meeting location by one vote over Fort Wayne. Officers were elected unanimously. resolutions favored good roads, paints purity laws, parcels post, and postal savings bank, with debates on bylaws and trade measures. About 400 delegates attended before departure after adjournment.
Police raid the North Anderson club detains custodian Michael Maher for running the venue along saloon lines. Officers confiscate six cases of beer and several gallons of whisky as customers were at the bar during the operation.
William Barrnes Jr of Albany was chosen Saturday as chairman of the Republican state committee, succeeding Ezra Pren. He led the Saratoga convention fight against Theodore Roosevelt last fall in New York.
Bridgeport, Conn. Charles F. Ritchelman, early pioneer who built and flew a powered machine, died Sunday at Bridgeport Hospital of pneumonia. The aviation pioneer was a leading figure in early mechanized flight.
The essay notes Julia Ward Howe as modest and handsome. A Boston painter recalls her posing and her reply about mercy not justice. A spinster aunt is teased by a child who comments Auntie Alice does not look new.
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