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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1923
Page
7
Chicago authorities install portable showers in tenement districts to relieve children from heat. Built from perforated iron pipe and attached to hydrants, the simple design keeps construction costs low.
Mrs Evelyn Marshall Field of Chicago, wife of Marshall Field III, has taken out a $2,000,000 life insurance policy. Reported as the largest such policy issued to a woman in the United States.
A photograph shows the Leviathan lifeboat with a 100 horsepower motor and radio. The self bailing non capsizable craft tows 4 000 persons in other lifeboats and represents a new design milestone.
Mrs Ada Diver was granted a divorce after showing the husband had not spoken to her for three years and two months while they sat together daily at lunch. The couple married in 1899 but separated after a nervous breakdown in 1920.
In Harlem two bandits smashed the Runchback Jewelry window at 2232 Third Avenue and seized trays of diamonds valued at 40 000 after diverting a frightened horse. A bullet was fired at proprietor John Rundback as the culprits fled in a taxicab, with Patrolman John Liogd aiding the pursuit.
Parsons Kansas twenty year old schoolteacher Miss Mildred Spencer has talked almost nonstop since Thanksgiving visiting her Baldwin home. Doctors diagnose it as talking sickness and have moved her to a sanitarium. She is known for wide reading and rarely repeats herself. A cure is expected within weeks.
J R Lemon of Sacramento wins first honors for alibis in a Woodlawn justice court. Overhauled by Officer George Sharpneck for driving 45 mph, Lemon writes to Justice W H Scott claiming he could not before the speed dragged him by a passenger train passing through Davis.
Mrs. C. E. Brewer of Kansas City Kansas reports her three year old daughter was seated on a rear porch step chewing a half pound stick of dynamite. Police were called after neighbors explained the child found the explosive in a wire bundle. No injuries occurred.
Registration of motorists visiting national parks in 1922 shows an average of 8.45 persons per car. Since many vehicles are two seat roadsters, the typical touring automobile approached full capacity for group travel.
A collection of pointed aphorisms on idleness power and perception. Observations touch on laziness tyranny recognition love and justice with wry tone and practical wisdom. The verses juxtapose everyday life and broader social critique.
The Dominion government game conservation board approves a Bowron game preserve to serve as refuge and breeding ground for a wide variety of wild game, claimed to surpass any in Canada or the United States.
A vintage advertisement promotes Cuticura products for soothing a baby’s red rough itching skin. It recommends Cuticura Soap for baths, Cuticura Ointment for relief, and occasional use of Cuticura Talcum powder for fragrance and protection.
Professor William Harkins of the University of Chicago introduces a camera claimed to photograph atoms, the smallest known objects, marking a milestone in atomic science.
The provided text contains aphorisms about wealth and a joke comparing a fortune teller to a bank teller, with no identifiable people, organizations, places, or events.
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