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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1912
Page
7
A reflective sermon-like piece contrasts poverty and wealth, faith and hypocrisy, urging active Christian living. It laments indifference to gospel grace, questions moral integrity, and uses clock imagery to warn against unreliability and fake virtue in all seasons.
Hillsboro baseball club traveled to Alamo Sunday and won 8 to 6 in the season opener. Loran Holland pitched well for Hillsboro. Alamo to host a return game Sunday July 28, drawing expected crowds. Also notes local names and a Hall’s Catarrh Cure advertisement with testimonials and price.
A fragmentary text recalls faithful sentinels that beat off the exact time, mentioning clocks and blessings in sickness or death, but lacks clear names or events to anchor a full obituary.
This advertised piece touts a future where mail carriers fly and progress via air travel. It promotes Dr King’s New Discovery for coughs colds and lung diseases, claims a testimonial from J F Davis of Stickney Corner Maine, and offers 50 cent and one dollar prices with a free trial bottle at druggists.
W B McKinney visited Covington on Monday. Paddy Ormsford aided Mrs C M Coggins with rug cleaning Thursday afternoon. Willard Allen spent a day cleaning up his yard. Mrs Eva Berto reports several milk customers. Mrs Bell Smith called on Mrs Osten Crowder Friday morning. United Union church held an ice cream supper Saturday evening. Mrs Marshall enjoyed visiting Mrs Reed and regretted the visit was brief. Mrs Carrie Jones called on W B McKinney Thursday for a talk. Edith McKinney and Maud Reed are mentioned among neighbors.
The record notes several visits and events: Mrs. Joe Narvis received a call Friday afternoon, Mrs. John Buckley of Silver Wood called on Mrs. Carrie Jones, and Ruth and Gladys Jones paid a call on Odella McClain. Johnnie Kaley was hospitalized for surgery and Tommy Rowell works on a shaft near Stringtown while Stanley Thompson pursues his usual squirrel hunting.
Transactions in Fountain county real estate for the past week filed from title deeds by O. B. Douglass abstractor for five per cent mortgage loans. Florence Wonlaiser gains 72 acres in Millcreek. Leah Hudson receives lot 79 Newtown. E M Robbins to BF Frazier 177 178 H and H add Hillis. Bradfird to Livengood et al on 1 acre Van Buren township. Eugene Rush to Hortense Young in lott M Padd Mellett for 100. JG Gordon to Henry Zackmire lots 24 25 and 41 42 add Kingman. W Whicker Gdn to Henry Weigle part lot 5 block 5 city survey Attice for 520. Vickery to C E Swift 180 acres Fulton township for 84200. Mary E Brodix to M L Claypool 106 107 Prospect and Attica for 8000.
John D. Martin, with 46 years in renovations, offers painting and papering services in Covington Indiana at Pearl and 8th streets. Samples of wallpaper are available. All work promised in workmanship manner.
The ancient Romans reportedly used a universal shorthand taught in schools. It is claimed that Emperor Titus was an expert practitioner of this rapid writing method.
Receiver in Fountain County Indiana under an order of the Fountain Circuit Court in Randolph v Heath et al. gives notice of a sale of real estate. Case 2289 pending, parties include Ora B Randolph and James E Heath et al. Sale time to be announced.
In Covington Indiana on August 10 1912 at V E Livengoods law office the receiver Valentinere Livengood offers for sale by private vendue at not less than the appraised value real estate in Fountain County Lots 3 2 8 27 24 37 and 4 in Steinbatych Heath Original Addition to Cates Terms cash in hand date July 19 1912.
Major Hook devised a macabre ruse to keep his wife’s annuity after her death by placing her in a room under a glass case. The aged widow was allegedly kept above ground in a private chamber, allowing the husband to receive income for three decades. The tale is noted in Ancient Curious and Famous Wills.
A German novelty shoes feature partitions to separate toes. The interior cushions press at the toe base, reducing toe jamming and aiming to prevent foot deformities. The design claims to make walking more comfortable by shifting thrust away from the toe tip.
Trade dollars were larger than standard dollars and valued mainly for metal content. Congress authorized them in 1873 to facilitate Far East commerce, with millions minted and much exported to China, Japan, and the Philippines. By 1887 a six month exchange period left only 284,587 in the U S, under 1 percent of the original mintage.
The French Academy of Immortals has added four names to its membership: M. de Regnier, a poet, General Langlois who is both author and soldier, Henri Roujon former director of the Bennuix Arts, and Denis Cochin a man of letters. The academy remains short of its forty member strength. Hope is discussed as a universal, uplifting force.
Saint Nihal Singh recounts the dire living conditions of India’s untouchables. Hut shelters with palm thatch, no furniture, cow dung floors, and a single doorway define their cramped homes. Most families eat one bare meal daily and work long hours amid widespread disease and deprivation. Education fails with only five in a thousand children attending school, leaving fifty three million Hindus submerged socially and morally.
A compact definition of an impresario as manager or agent for a troupe of singers, sometimes a teacher, noting the term’s historical breadth in operatic and concert contexts.
Outside Basel in Basel Campagne any person can practice dentistry without the preliminary examinations required by law elsewhere in Switzerland. Of thirty six practicing dentists in the area only one holds a federal diploma. others include a chimney sweep, a butcher, and several failed tradesmen.
Execution from the Fountain Circuit Court clerk directs public sale to the highest bidder. The notice outlines the sale by order under legal process.
On August 3, 1912 between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. at the Fountain County Court House door, Sheriff Robert H. Kerr will sell the real estate of Eugene Rush described as sections nine and surrounding quarters in township eighteen north range eight west, totaling about 113 rods in Fountain County Indiana. If the judgment is not fully realized, the estate may be sold again at the same time and place. The sale is in favor of Charles K. Osborn, as assignee of the Rush Coal Company, by deputy J. J. Makhan, with O. B. Ratcliff as attorney for the plaintiff. 7-12-12.
The public notice proclaims Covington Dye House at 105 N Walnut St Danville HI as the sole practical dry cleaner and dyer in Danville with 28 years of experience in the dyeing and dry cleaning business.
An advertisement touts Jericho Leaves as a remarkable natural laxative sourced from Holy Land shrubs. It promises soothing action without irritation, urging readers to mail twenty five cents plus delivery via cloth sack, with money back if unsatisfactory. The Jericho Leaves Importing Co. of Buffalo markets the product in the United States.
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