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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1904
Page
3
A call to awaken public interest in Covington and raise the city’s welfare beyond finance and business. The author urges spiritual concern, comparing souls to Africa missions and urging readiness for heaven, stressing urgent moral duty and communal action.
A Fountain County real estate list shows transfers filed for record prepared for the Republican by O S Douglass of Covington. Items include Wesley Randolph to A F Randolph and 84 A Fulton for 1250, and multiple deeds across Richland Jackson and Logan townships with prices from 600 to 60000. The note ends with a sales pitch for a March 19 horse and mule sale by Farmer McMahon in Covington.
A barber recounts quirky customers over razors. One client keeps six razors and pays weekly for honing while another insists on a home razor that turns out to be a meat ax, yet the barber shaves him with it and earns no complaint.
A Notes and Queries note discusses the phrases by and by and by the bye. Johnson’s definition links by and by to in a short time and to the French tout a l heure, while by the bye shifts from direct immediate reference to a related auxiliary sense. Shakespeare is cited for the immediate sense and Johnson for the antiquated usage, with no clear etymology for by in these expressions.
The Woran sura 1 describes a universal judgment day with events such as the sun folded up stars falling mountains passing away seas boiling and souls reunited with bodies. It notes the buried girl asking for her crime and the opening of hooks as heaven and hell are brought near.
The custom of consecrating church bells was once common across denominations but mainly survives in Roman Catholic practice. The rite included holy water washing, anointing, and marking with the cross, though during the English Reformation some bells were blessed with punch instead of blessing.
To speak of any ope as an admirable Crichton is to credit him with the time overs fearhead and accomplished since such a period lived in the sixteenth century. His name was James Crichton and served in Scotland from late Toss. At seventeen he was reputed master of twelve vanities and had the decree of master of arts. In addition to his accomplishments as a painter he was poet musician sculptor artist recantor a good horse rider and an expert fencer.
The readable text presents garbled phrases and quotes about fear and urgency. It mentions an alarm, a person named Poe, and a sense of danger but lacks clear context, dates, locations, or concrete actions.
A fragment references a London school and answers for children. It notes taming anxiety about the future, urging focus on the present as the future arrives in its own time. The text emphasizes prudent conduct rather than dread.
Mr Smith asks about advance payment for board. Landlady describes his trunk as an old fashioned emotional trunk that is easily moved, prompting the humorous exchange about the trunk not being suitable for a week’s board.
Mary accuses John of being the town fool and John calmly cites his mother’s old remark about marriage proving the point. The exchange reveals marital tensions and sharp wit between the couple.
An advertisement for Royal Baking Powder Co of New York promotes the product as a reliable leavening agent for baking, emphasizing its trusted brand and consistent results.
In March the Life Guards face fires and diseases as cold influenza catarrh grip and pneumonia rise. Hood's Sarsaparilla is urged as the best defense to strengthen the system, remove disease conditions, and invigorate vital organs, ensuring warmth in the blood.
Mrs Gertrude Fenner Marion Indiana credits One Minute Cough Cure with curing her lingering cough and pneumonia like illness She reports gaining weight after treatment and recovering strength J P Buckner sells building and lot used by the post office Webber heirs property listed for sale at county commissioners sale on Saturday April 9 by H C Yount advertisement elsewhere in issue
Mrs Helen Vyse presents a beautiful line of spring hats in a show at the Leader starting March 26. The event highlights new millinery and fashion accessories for the season.
Homeseekers rates on the first and third Tuesdays each month to southwestern territory. Tourist rates daily to Paville Coast points. Pullman sleepers and reclining chair cars aboard through trains. Low round trip touriet fares to Jake resorts in Ontario and Thousand Islands. Eastern Resorts summer 1903. Write C D Whitney General Traffic Manager Toledo O.
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