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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1901
Page
6
Public notices mix of old advertisements and product pitches. The page promotes Jell O Desert flavors Lemon Orange Raspberry Strawberry for 10 cents, a Madison County Indiana mail box request for agents, and Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin with health claims, plus at home work offers and cuff button holders. Multiple brands and offers listed with contact prompts.
A factory president recalls how a smart filing-room worker sparked a breakthrough by modifying punch press use. The foreman pitches a cost saving plan, promising $5,000 yearly relief and risking the filer’s job, while the new superintendent weighs the foreman's honesty and impact.
A factory manager implements a new idea from a worker to improve punch press efficiency. The superintendent soon fires the foreman, then the new system triggers layoffs. A whistleblower reveals credit misattribution, prompting a reform to credit ideas via signed suggestions kept in boxes overseen by the president.
Stated as a guaranteed remedy for constipation indigestion and stomach trouble sold by Le Roy Allen. The advertisement urges the product as a trusted aid and recalls the familiar phrase The Kind You Have Always Bought.
Maydale hammers claim the best quality with perfectly balanced heads that never fly off and are sought by every carpenter. Benson plasters are praised as the genuine article for ailments treated externally, backed by doctors and druggists with a strong endorsement against substitutes.
A monkey named Nellie repeatedly tests mechanisms inside a matchbox and discovers that a spring keeps the lid closed. After failing with teeth, she uses a wooden block to strike the spring from her cage, then opens the box and celebrates.
A tale recalls Abel Erasmus provoking Sir Garnet Wolseley during the 1879 Sekukuni campaign. Wolseley vowed Erasmus would hang if he incited chiefs to war. Erasmus arrives later to demand his hanging, but Wolseley and secretary Sir Henry Brackenbury delay action.
An old advertisement sells Craft's Distemper and Cough Cure for horses sheep and dogs claiming a guaranteed cure for cough and cold. Also offers Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets for a one day cold cure with no cure no pay and price of 25 cents.
War ranted clothing offered by Caun Wampotp & Co of Chicago with free catalog on request. Only one make of warranted clothing is theirs.
Advertisement claims most Americans suffer from dyspepsia and liver issues with sour stomach headaches constipation and stomach pains. Encourages buying August Flower for 73 cents from LeRoy Allen and J. P. Buckner with a claim that two doses relieve symptoms and to consult Green's Prize Almanac.
Railroad timetable notes list a.m. St Paul Express and Mason City Mail via Peoria with through cars to Minneapolis and St Paul. Exposition trips to Covington Buffalo and Rome City via Wabash with round trips, sale dates, and agent contact T J Gallagher. California tourist car service from Minneapolis to Los Angeles runs Tuesdays with low one way rates this spring.
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