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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1905
Page
6
In Silver County a sheriff enters the White Wolf saloon to arrest Pete Thompson for murder. Pete draws and fires six shots missing the sheriff who stands unshaken. The sheriff fires no gun, leaving Pete baffled and pursued as townsfolk warn Pete may have to flee to escape vengeance.
The text notes the Nile’s 1,500 mile flow without tributaries, Cape of Good Hope seas reaching thirty eight feet, Yellowstone’s prismatic lake as the largest hot water body, and compares river volumes with the Ganges and Mississippi. It also mentions the St Lawrence frozen four months, Askel Chin at 16,600 feet, and the Dead Sea at 1,204 feet below sea level.
At a dinner hosted by a philanthropist for the Society of Reformed Criminals a guest laments a missing watch. The clever host darkens the room and declares a search will trigger police. When lights return, thirty three handsome watches lie in the room’s center.
A young London street child, after finding a bad sixpence, moves through shops in search of use. He buys a threepenny cigar from a tobacconist and, when told it is a bad penny, insists on smoking it anyway and leaves after being belted from the door.
A new boarder complains that the coffee is not sweet enough and receives a sharp retort about adding sugar, reflecting a light domestic incident in casual banter.
A Baltimore American note recalls the editor sighing that news was not broken gently as the office boy dropped the first page down stairs during early edition work.
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