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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1911
Page
2
Captain Caldwell led a Delaware regiment in the revolution and earned the moniker Caldwell's game cocks for his men famed for cock fighting. He believed real game cocks came from a blue hen, giving rise to Blue Hen's Chickens as his unit nickname applied to Delawareans after the war.
Attorney H C Yount files notice of administration. Philippine docket L-3w.
A Monday shower. Terre Haute visitors on vacation. Wm Jones and wife from Villa Grove Ill visiting Levi Kelcher and wife with reports of Jones teaching at Gifford this fall. Funeral held for Jacob Dalton at U B church Perrysville. interment Smith cemetery. Blackberries plentiful at 25 cents per gallon. Cement walk laid by Morrison the blacksmith. Lyman Webster injured toe by an iron rail near Cayuga. Circus trip to Danville noted. Mrs J S Stephens of New Port visited Doyne Beauchamp. Beauchamp buried his first case. Wabash bridge cement slabs finished. west abutment work ongoing. piling driven under S B Rouse contract. Fred Winter and mother back to Houston Texas. Fred in real estate. Property transfers listed in SJE Heata area.
A. D. McDonald of Fayetteville writes that King’s New Discovery cured severe coughs described as consumption by his sister and himself. The testimonial touts relief from sore throats coughs colds bronchial troubles and related ailments with trial bottles offered free and medicine priced 50 cents and 1 90, guaranteed by druggists.
Weekly list of deeds filed for record via O S Douglass abstracts five per cent loans Carrie Thomas to Alice Hershberger 38 acres Van Buren Township CE Howrey to W N Renick Irac Kingman 1000 AR Furr to W R Green lot 4 block 4 and lot 8 block 2 CC add Veedersburg 100 Frank Cottrell guardian to HE Dick 217 160 acres Richland to 2665 66 John Hawkins et al to Frank P Watts late 5 13 14 Portland Nellie Bonebrake to Matilda Keenig lots 31 37 44 60 Radd Covington city of Veedersburg to James Ward et al part Yerkes street Veedersburg
The State of Indiana Fountain County notice to the Sheriff commands opening a poll at each voting precinct in Wabash township Fountain County Indiana on the specified date by order of the Board of Commissioners.
A notice dated July 11 1911 from Auditor William B Gray announces a special election to determine by ballot whether the sale of intoxicating liquors as a beverage shall be prohibited within Wabash Township Fountain County Indiana. The notice requests qualified voters to attend the election in each voting precinct on a Saturday the 29th day of July.
A countywide vote is ordered by the Fountain County Board of Commissioners on a date set by the Board to determine if intoxicating beverages will be prohibited as a beverage within township limits. Sheriff Robert H. Kerr notes the official review and date of the order dated July 11, 1941.
A reader from Lewisburg West Virginia credits Electric Bitters with curing long standing stomach troubles and rheumatism after ten years of ailment. The testimonial lauds relief from dyspepsia and kidney poisons and promotes the remedy as a guaranteed tonic available for 50 cents at local druggists. The piece also includes a brief moral tale about an eagle and an arrow attributed to Aesop.
A prosperous man who visits a Liberty Street cafe for two years shakes dice at the bar to choose his drink without gambling with others. He plays solitaire with dice before dining, never using another person in the decision. The note appears in the New York Press.
A quotation compares life to chess where the world is the chessboard and nature the rules. The unseen opponent embodies fate, yet the game is fair, patient, and exact, rewarding skill with generous triumph and punishing ignorance with a steady checkmate.
An aged newspaper ad warns that kidney trouble harms mind and vigor in both women and men. It touts Swamp Root from Dr Kilmer as a swift remedy, noting bottles of fifty cents and one dollar and a free sample by mail with a pamphlet and testimonials.
An advertisement touts Jericho Leaves from the Holy Land as a natural laxative that outperforms drugs. It praises the leaves as palatable, harmless, and cleansing, urging readers to order by mail from The Jericho Leaves Importing Co. of Buffalo, New York, with a 25 cent price and refund offer.
A London County Council education committee report describes a nearly 13 year old Peckham boy who has learned only two or three letters in his life, cannot write or calculate, and is slated for expulsion. The note also mentions a US medical press use of dichotomy for illicit business and cites quotes on friendship and a London Hospital death knell.
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