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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1923
Page
3
Former Mississippi governor Theodore Bilbo was fined 100 dollars and sentenced to 30 days in jail for contempt of court after failing to appear as a material witness in a case involving Governor Lee M. Russell. While in jail he announced his candidacy for the August primary.
A monument honoring Wilbur Wright, the airplane inventor, was unveiled at Henry County Memorial Park near Newcastle Indiana. The event closed Newcastle centennial celebrations led by Phi Delta Kappa with many members who served overseas or in the air service. Wright was born east of Newcastle on a farm.
Yvonne Wilmot a Belgian war bride in Los Angeles faced homesickness that led to a love triangle and a pistol shot. Her husband Scott Wilhert stands charged with shooting Paul Peters after Peters fled at the confession. Court action soon will resolve the case as Yvonne stays in America with her husband.
Billy Boyd, eight, a third grade student from Petworth school, wore khaki and a necktie for a nature jaunt at the Soldiers' Home grounds. At 2:45 pm a playmate reported he lay under a large elm after a fall and had broken his neck.
Mayor Rentz unveils a program for arrestee drunks to be sentenced to wash City Hall interior and exterior and spend nights in a jail cell, aiming to curb drinking. The plan targets offenders in New Castle Pennsylvania and reflects city efforts to enforce sobriety.
Howard L. Davis of New Egypt New Jersey advertises for a nurse for a thoroughbred registered fox terrier pup. The job promises big wages to the right party and includes caring for the pup, helping with meals, making the bed, and keeping the house clean, with a possible matrimony if the applicant falls in love with the pup.
A bandit named Al Spencer, known as the bandit of the Osage, heads a gang robbing banks and a jewelry store in Kansas and Oklahoma border counties. Rewards totaling $8,500 are offered dead or alive. Spencer, an escaped convict, is joined by Dick Greve, a 22 year old fugitive. He is based in the hills near Bartlesville Oklahoma.
Barry Devine, 20, left Pickfasy and wrote a diary of death as he staggered ten miles to Hammond after swallowing arsenic to protest a rejection. Found unconscious, revived, and sent to a private home, he survives with doctors noting the dose was fatal but not deadly. Citizens fund relief. he jokes about flowers, a diamond ring, and loving the woman.
In Steubenville Ohio Mrs Anna Baker watched her four year old son James blown into the street by a gust and fatally struck under a street car. The motorman said he did not see the child return to his mother until the jolt.
A brief reflective line explores how a young boy contemplates his family roots and the meaning of heritage, hinting at curiosity about ancestry and personal identity.
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