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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1922
Page
6
A garbled snippet shows a speaker arguing against allowing foreign enterprise to dictate national spending. The phrase includes names and a debate tone about financing rises and autonomy in financial decisions.
A girl named Betty visits relatives with Paper Doll wearing a gold dress. A pet crow named Jim Crow steals the doll, but the farm man recovers her from the barn. Grandma repairs the doll, and Betty learns to watch her toys around Jim Crow henceforth.
The article traces how the French word sabotage entered English during labor unrest as a term for deliberate damage or poor work harming a company. It notes the shift from a harmless shoe making term to a label for acts like wrecking machinery or damaging products, tied to late 19th century European strikes.
The article traces the name Amal as a linguistic root across cultures, listing Amilins Amelung Amalie Amelias Aemilia Amelie and Amelia as variants. It notes amethyst as Amelia's talisman and links dreams to safety, with Saturday as a lucky day and four as a lucky number.
A middle aged reader reflects on how discussions of the war fade into daily life as time passes. She notes that repeating good old days memories blames the war, and urges avoiding war blame to help statesmen solve peace.
Pale flowers emit sweet scents at dusk to lure moths, dusk flying visitors. Honeysuckle, night scented stock, and tobacco plant are noted examples guiding pollinators to blooms.
Lord De Broke jokes about courting and debts in a light hearted dialogue. The speaker suggests confessing love to the woman and revealing debts to her father as the standard procedure.
A reflective verse on cheerful giving. The speaker finds that generosity toward those who seek kindness yields tangible joy and a growing sense of love. The more he gives, the more peace and affection return as dividends.
Methods to harden copper include adding small amounts of cuprous oxide and extensive mechanical work. The article notes oxide alloying as a common technique and also discusses work hardening by shaping and deformation.
Colored Private laments arithmetic bugs in his head. The banter shows the captain’s explanation that the bugs subtract from pleasure, divide attention, and multiply like the dickens in the exchange.
A brief dialogue features a girl's father testing a suitor. The father asks if the young man is serious, and the suitor replies hesitantly with questions about shared intentions. The exchange hints at cautious romance norms of a past era.
A quoted line notes a man who relishes watching his close companion fail, depicting a cynical view of friendship and amusement at another’s misfortune.
The column notes Pearl showing a new Hootin Nan ny car with Heloise and Claudine at Rapid Fire. It claims Pearl dates a different man nightly and may attract trouble as her arm was lame from hugs, with a night incident near a crossing cop’s cousin.
A business man agrees to double a fee if a doctor prescribes a summer at the seashore for his wife. The doctor agrees and then asks what he had intended to prescribe. The response is four summers at the seashore.
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