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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1913
Page
2
The Irish American A C athlete Abe Kiviat scores top marks in New York meets with 1,000 yard in 2 minutes 154 5 and 600 yard in 1 minute 51 5. He defeats noted rivals Meredith and Halpin and is praised as a leading world racer and promising young champion.
Thoroughbred stallion Ben Brush sold for 10000 to Johnson N. Camden from the James R. Keene estate. He started forty races with 25 wins and 5 seconds and 5 thirds. As a sire, he led the 1909 stakes and purse winnings with 75473. His progeny include Broomstick Deihi Sweep Besom Gretna Green and Wedding Bells among others.
Harry Hebner the Olympic back stroke champion from Illinois Athletic Club shows continued form in New York where he swam fifty yards in thirty seconds. A six year veteran with a 1908 Olympic team background at age twenty one, he is noted as a natural swimmer who exerts little effort yet moves through water with ease.
W Wickham defeated W Longworth in Melbourne on February 23 to reclaim the Australian 100 yard title. Wickham also holds Australian records at fifty seventy five and eighty yards, while Longworth formerly held the 100 yard record at 54.45 seconds.
American athletes plan to compete in Rome at the Federation of Catholic Gymnastic Societies event held next September. The competition expects more than 6,000 contestants from around the world.
Willie Hoppe plans to sail for Paris in late March to face Firmin Cassignol, a renowned French player and pupil of Frank C. Ives. Cassignol played in the United States in 1909.
Dartmouth University's large gymnasium includes a cinder track with six and a half laps to the mile and a 100 yard straightaway. The facilities were showcased in a recent interscholastic event.
From Harper's a detailed portrait of the manatee explains its semitropical habitat near Florida Mexico and the West Indies. It notes a whale like body with a horizontal tail, small fore flippers and three nails on each, and a flexible upper lip used to grasp aquatic plants. The article mentions debates about its resemblance to a human arm and a manatee’s gentle nature.
A historic tale from Pearson's Weekly recounts a candidate who balked at paying voters, then used a clever ruse. He promised a £10 share to those who voted for him after losing by bribery to the rival, winning by a large margin. He refused to pay the majority, claiming his prior gift was to reward disinterested conduct.
A Pennsylvania man addresses flaws in traditional spoon holders by creating a model with a long stable base. The interior bowl shape fits spoons neatly with handles projecting through a slot, enabling each spoon to rest on the one below and form a tidy stack.
Rich shortcake dough combines flour salt powder and butter with milk and egg then split bake and cool. Oysters simmer in liquor skim foam drain return liquor then thicken with flour and butter, season, add cream and oysters, fill cake and serve immediately.
In Williamsburg Pa a rolling barrel on Kent avenue drew crowds as a headless end revealed legs and muffled groans. Thomas Roach a Norton street machinist fell inside chasing curiosity, nails snagging his clothing. Police aided with a saw and axe freeing him for hospital care.
London story recalls Oscar Wilde’s vanity while ill as he refuses gray medicine. A doctor’s prescription is altered by a chemist at Wilde’s request, turning dull brown liquid to rosy red and gray pills to a gold shine.
Investigators note that temperature readings do not reliably indicate Gulf Stream strength. Warm water signals tropical origin, not current, and the warmest offshore flow near Cape Hatteras is a gentle trade-wind liquid, while the Gulf Stream lies between this warmer water and the 100 fathom curve.
The head of a major trust spoke at a Boston dinner declaring opposition to speculation. He condemned making wealth from stock fluctuations rather than honest work for the common good and warned that fluctuating investments are risky and uncertain.
In the Washington Star quotation Briggins asserts a child is the smartest in the world and Growcher agrees noting that every parent believes this. The line frames a natural belief in a child’s intelligence as a wise provision of nature in human life.
A Baltimore American quip notes a vivid life with color references to envy jealousy fear and rage highlighting a striking personality in a playful media line. The remark mocks a person described as having a highly colored life.
The Philadelphia Record notes that a man called an optimist is a husband content with married life as shown by Tommy’s father described as a joyful spouse.
A recipe for Mahogany Cake describes mixing eggs milk cocoa and ingredients then cooking in a double boiler until thickened. After cooling add sugar milk soda melted butter flour vanilla and bake. The frosting uses beaten egg whites and a boiling sugar syrup folded in with vanilla until spreadable.
The crescent emblem stems from Byzantine and eastern Christian use later adopted by Turks after 1453. During a 16th century siege of Vienna, mine work near city bakehouses inspired bakers to shape bread as a crescent to celebrate the event.
The recipe instructs lining a baking dish with quarter inch cheese strips and browned breadcrumbs, layering with eggs and grated cheese, seasoning with salt and pepper, adding butter on top, and baking until the eggs are firm but not hard. Serve hot.
Cut ham into slices and broil on both sides. Prepare bananas by halving lengthwise, seasoning, dipping in egg and bread crumbs, and frying in bacon fat. Plate slices with a banana half on each, garnish with parsley, and serve hot.
Mrs John Dierks of Laporte Indiana reports hundreds of offers for adoption after advertising that she will provide a home of luxury and make the infant heir to her estate and that of her husband She says the responses come from nearly every state and would fill an orphan asylum.
A historical recipe instructs simmering three pounds of lean lamb flank for one hour, adding sliced onions and half cup juice, and a heaping teaspoon each of sage and summer savory for fifteen minutes. Then stir in a pint of cream of tartar dumpling mix with three eggs and boil twelve minutes.
Instructions describe preparing sliced cold meat with pepper salt and pickles. Mash potatoes with egg to form paste, dust with flour, cut rounds, place seasoned meat on one half and fold like a puff, then fry or bake until browned.
Kalama Washington farmer Carl Dietsch after seven years of experiments has produced a seedless prune near Klamath. A tree bore a bushel and a half of the new fruit which ripened well. The prune measures about three fourths of an inch in diameter and two inches long with a flavor described as excellent.
Extension Department launches a nationwide campaign to boost alfalfa cultivation. Professor P G Holden will direct efforts with automobile trains and field men. Alfalfa days, lectures, charts, lantern slides, and literature will promote wider adoption among farmers and communities.
A collection praises alfalfa as a vital, drought resistant feed and soil improver, touting its economic value for farming. It notes alfalfa’s benefits to milk, beef, and crop yields, and urges growers to raise what they feed. The article also tracks the 19th to 20th century shift of grain production west of Burlington Iowa, with irrigation plans looming.
Alfalfa is successfully grown in every agricultural county in New York and on at least one farm in nearly every township. The crop appears feasible on parts of almost every farm statewide.
The article extols alfalfa as superior for all livestock, especially horses and hogs, noting its versatility as hay, forage, or pasture. It describes deep taproot, potential for three to four harvests yearly, and long productive life, with warnings about sowing alfalfa with oats or barley and the need for inoculation and lime.
A 1910 era quote from J. W. Spillman proclaims alfalfa as the richest hay food known and marks its rise as a key development in modern agriculture.
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