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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1911
Page
3
Aesop tells of an eagle perched on a rock tracking a hare. An unseen archer fires, mortally wounding the bird. The eagle realizes the arrow was feathered with his own feathers, declaring it a double grief to die by a weapon born from his wings.
Joseph B Keller a male resident of Fulton township Fountain County Indiana will apply at the August term 1911 of the Fountain County Board of Commissioners for a license to sell intoxicating vinous malt and spirituous liquors in quantities under five gallons at a time for one year. The business will be in a one story frame building fronting the public highway with a described interior layout and locked doors for closing hours. Keller affirms no connection with breweries or distilleries and sole ownership of the business.
Transactions show Maggie J Pavey and Louisa J Dotson entries at Fulton townships with $1 transfers and partitions. Multiple Dotson to Dotson deeds locate in Fulton and Chas N Dotson parcels. Ora McBride and wife transfer to Oscar Flower in Coal Creek fraction. Attica listings include L and I Co to Emma Foster, Propect add, and 200 dollars. Ruth Hicks gains lot 33 26 Silverwood from Lee Mitchell and wife. Kingman Heights yields 1000 dollars transfer Chas F Smith and wife to WM Jackson. Burton E Page gains lot 10 Mellot from FE via McDonald and husband. Emma V Abernathy to Pearl Brackeler Trustee, Fulton lot 60 for $1000.
Readers are told Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure for catarrh a constitutional disease. It claims to act on blood and mucous surfaces and offers $100 reward for any unsolved case. Proponents cite testimonials and urge purchase from F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio. Uses Hall's Family Pills for Constitution. Sold by all druggists.
A veteran housekeeper offers tips for fruit preserving including advance preparation of ingredients and utensils, peeling early, bulled berries the day before, involve children in topping and tailing, scalding jars, and using wooden or agate spoons to avoid chemical reactions with fruit acids.
A simple fruit pudding uses sweet milk thickened with corn starch and egg. The mix boils softly then flavors with vanilla and crushed raspberries. It is poured into a mold to chill and served with sugar and cream, with substitutions like blackberries peaches or stewed apples allowed.
Prepare a quarter peck of green pears with three lemons two oranges four pounds sugar two ounces ginger and a gill water. Quarter peel and trim pears, rate lemon rind, chop pears with ginger then mix in sugar lemon rind juice orange juice and water. Boil two and a half hours and fill jelly glasses.
Instructions for making gooseberry jam with three quarters pound sugar per pound fruit and slow heating for two hours. Marshmallow and raspberry cream combines marshmallows cream strawberries sherry and angel cake served in sherbet glasses.
Scrape and cut red currants and raspberries to a pint each. Chop walnuts and seeded raisins, dice two oranges, grate lemon rind, and juice two lemons. Weigh all and add an equal weight of sugar. Boil until thick, fill jars, and seal.
Peel and pit enough peaches to make six pounds. Crack twenty peach pits and remove kernels. Chop kernels and add to peaches with the juice and pulp of four large oranges. Stir in four pounds of sugar and boil until thick and clear. Pour into glasses and when cool, pour paraffin over the marmalade.
Instructions describe arranging boiled rice into circular bases on small fruit plates, placing strawberries in the centers, and ladling sweetened pineapple juice over each. All ingredients should be ice cold for serving.
A Pearson's Weekly piece describes a bizarre fruit from Japan called the five fingered orange. The shrub grows five to six feet tall with twisted branches. The fruit measures up to ten inches and emits perfume despite poor taste.
The tale recounts Julius Caesar addressing the mutinous Tenta legion with a single word Quinites. The veterans interpret it as disowning them as soldiers and dismissing them from his service. They weep and seek mercy, while the mutiny’s instigators face swift punishment.
The word philosopher is traced to Pythagoras born about 570 B C He loved wisdom and believed nature is a harmony with universal laws expressed by the universe He sought knowledge to teach others freely without money or price and remains a noble influence of antiquity today through its lasting effects.
Clarence Ring from San Francisco writes to John Bay introducing Horace F Cutter. Ring jokes the next geological period will move east and hints Cutter may be Socrates or Don Quixote, though he believes Cutter is both.
The Macgregors faced repeated bans from 1603 to the late 18th century and were often persecuted. Charles II lifted the prohibition temporarily, then it returned under William and Mary. In 1822 Sir Charles Macgregor received a royal license to use the name, previously known as Murray. The London Spectator notes widespread violence against the clan in early 1600s.
A Turkish riddle records a beggar who dreamed of being a pasha and a pasha who dreamed of being a beggar. The question asks which was happier, a paradox about identity and desire across social ranks.
A brief quotation contrasts rich and poor concerns about money. The Philadelphia Ledger notes that poor men fret over not having funds while rich men fear losing wealth. The exchange frames universal anxiety about finances.
A witty London Tit-Bits quip contrasts ships of courtship with sea voyage imagery. Osternd-Pa asks what ships courtships are, Pa-Soft ships. Ostend-And answers that ships of matrimony are hard ships.
A British medical student C E Green presents a theory that animal cancers resemble plant tumors. He links a parasitic organism to Brassica cancer and notes sulfur favors growth while calcium and copper inhibit it. The piece also reports King Otto of Bavaria’s health mystery and confinement in Fuerstenried Castle with guardians and a ceremonial regime.
Trustee Jos. Starkey announces weekly sessions at his residence in Cates Ind to conduct township business. The schedule specifies meetings each Saturday during which township matters may be addressed.
Troy Township trustees announce weekly office hours in the K of P building to conduct township business. Chas A Brown, trustee, states meetings will be held Wednesday and Saturday each week in his office. The note closes with a Walt Mason quotation about life.
Walter Greaves an English painter over seventy and former Whistler pupil has risen from obscurity to fame. His father was a Chelsea boat builder. Whistler trained him forbidding full exhibitions but allowed etchings. Two years ago he only sold etchings while storing canvases at home. A dealer gallery show sparked praise from a London journal calling him a notable addition to 19th century English painters.
A Vienna court sentenced Leopoldina Futschel to three months in prison for abusing Maria Theresa who died in 1780. She had been expelled from Vienna by police order and later mocked the empress, noting the law protecting Austrian rulers for 260 years.
A vivid description by President C Ro Vann Hise estimates annual US rainfall at about thirty inches or 152 trillion cubic feet. About one third flows to the sea, leaving engineers to tap the remainder to sustain national productivity.
Artists vie for a Bismarck memorial at Bingen with Die Woche noting a strict invitation demanding the monument dominate Elizabeth height and appear imposing from river and shore. Professor Hans Hundrieser’s design features a monumental pedestal with a portrait bust of the Iron Chancellor whose head stands about thirty eight feet high.
The Chicago Tribune advises pulling dandelions by the root with steady upward force and patience. If the root breaks, wait a day or two and try again, repeating until the lawn is clear, even if it takes the summer. The plant is persistent but eventually yields.
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