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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1923
Page
7
A miscellany notes languages for Adam, Lapland heights, Vatican apartments, butterfly lifespans, Shanghai car imports, wrist watches with radium dials, and airplane manufacture in Australia. It also recalls Spartan women wrestling, Jupiter’s year length, watch parts, U S diabetics, grade crossing accidents rising in 1922.
A billion in silver dollars weighs 1250 tons and a treasury expert would take 102 years to count one. An American billion equals a thousand millions while the English billion is a million millions. If shared, each US resident would receive about $10. Wages from a billion dollars could employ 1,666,656 people at $2 daily for a year.
Grapes shipped from New York Michigan and Pennsylvania in 1922 rose above typical levels. New York sent 7,484 cars vs 8,584 average. Michigan 5,833 vs 2,012 average. Pennsylvania 1,514 vs 737 average, according to USDA reports.
Advertisement touts Red Cross Ball Blue as non streaking and effective for clean clothes, noting good results and availability from all grocers.
A cryptic quoted line features an exchange where a speaker recalls meeting Miss Green and admits horror upon realizing the prior acquaintance. The fragment hints at memory and recognition themes in a likely narrative context.
A compact reflection contrasts honesty and poverty, noting that some people stay upright due to necessity while others fall into hardship despite integrity. The line invites meditation on virtue, wealth, and social structures that shape fate.
A 1923 McClure Syndicate column praises hopeful optimists who practice the golden rule. It urges self control, gratitude, and helping the weak, warning that neglecting others harms everyone. The piece frames hope as a guiding torch leading to happiness.
Poem urges living truth over pretence and deceit. It urges all people rich or poor to value inner truth, warning that masks are torn away and respect comes from authenticity rather than appearances. The piece credits McClure Newspaper Syndicate.
The essay warns that swelling with ego defeats success, urging humility and continual self‑assessment. It contrasts luck and favoritism with genuine growth, citing Lincoln Shakespeare and Napoleon as benchmarks, and advises studying great figures to resist conceit.
Instructions for making soup with a potato dumpling paste and a buttered toast crust. Includes a spring salad with lettuce tomatoes garlic watercress and a creamy mayonnaise. Also provides a basic flour milk baking powder butter lard and egg batter recipe.
A recipe for Rice Flour Pound Cake details creaming butter with sugar yolks vanilla lemon rind and water before folding in sifted flour and baking powder then beaten egg whites folded in and baked. A quoted travel saying from Boston Evening Transcript notes trouble met halfway makes a poor companion on the journey.
The artist views the civil engineer as the pinnacle of masculine perfection combining imagination with practical intellect. He admires the engineer’s ability to conceive grand concepts and translate them into real structures.
Uses for household laundry advertise Red Cross Ball Blue as a trusted whiteness booster. It claims to keep table linens gleaming and reliable, sold at all good grocers.
A quote attributed to William Forkess warns that spiritual integrity surpasses external church repairs and additions. It asserts that restoring the invisible framework, the church’s truth, is more vital than physical alterations.
A fireless cooker in basket form has been invented to convey hot meals in out of doors places. The device, designed for service in scenic or rural settings, keeps foods warm without direct flames.
Treasury report shows four month veteran relief payments totaling 160.18 million dollars from July 1 to October 31 1922, nearly double the 91.68 million dollars paid in the same period of 1921.
An advertisement touts Cuticura Soap Ointment and Talcum for sore hands. It recommends soaking hands in hot suds then drying and rubbing in Cuticura Ointment and removing surplus with tissue. The copy claims the trio covers all toilet uses.
A brief item notes giving cash to a wife as a birthday present and arranging the wife to make the first installment payment on a purchase. The clipping records a domestic financial arrangement without further context or names.
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