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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1922
Page
7
A feature describes wedding gowns and accessories in royal English style, with georgette, crepe de chine, organdic nets, and silver accents. It highlights train designs, embroidery, and color themes such as orchid, turquoise, and orange blossoms for bridesmaids and matron of honor.
A fragment blends rhymes about God in gardens with quirky kitchen instructions for desserts, onions, cabbage, and ham toast. It shifts to a fruit juice cocktail and ends with a literary quote urging simple living over grand houses. The text reads like a stray clipping from a home column.
Recipes for codfish dishes include white sauce with baked potatoes and a butter sauce. Also included are smoked herring with creamed eggs, codfish chowder, codfish soufflé, and an apple Charlotte dessert with gelatin and orange zest.
An advertisement promotes Putnam Faceless Dyes at 10 cents per package, claiming colors for silk wool and cotton can be dyed all at once. The copy urges shoppers to pay less for any dye.
A 919 piece Bourbon coat of arms adorned silver service ordered by Napoleon II during the hundred days, delivered after abdication, used at the Tuileries 1815 to 1830, now on view in New York. Bullets mark turmoil. crafted by Biennais with official marks and guild seals, later owned by Louis XVIII and duc de Chambord heirs.
In Oklahoma City Representative Merrick mocks a wartime fish speculator who made millions. He calls it a good fish story that has long amused the public since Jonah. He notes how today the people swallow the fish and someone profits from the tale.
The article explains the new divorce ring as a symbol of severed ties worn on the third finger. A gold or platinum band bears a broken Cupid's bow and a jewel representing each divorce, with additional jewels added after subsequent marriages end in divorce.
A judge hears a quarrel over an installment sale for a $70 dining room set offered at 2500 down and $3 weekly. One side argues the plan would yield a worn item, while the other suggests it could become a genuine antique.
A quotation praising community progress by improving life stock and corn variety. The author, W. 2. Lloyd, extols those who enrich local wealth as surely as battlefield glory.
Mose Diggs, an Alabama man known locally, was arrested for having more than one wife. In court he admits six marriages, with each explaining their end. The judge asks about incompatibility and Diggs replies that he could not get along with the fifth wife unless they were elsewhere.
A concert anecdote recalls a bystander’s casual insult of a renowned tenor, only to discover the man across from him in the crowd is the speaker’s companion’s father. The moment unfolds with a reminder of pride and misjudgment at a winter event.
An immigrant faced the standard form and answered the first question born with Yes, a paradoxical moment that reflects identity and belonging. The brief vignette highlights the tension between legal documentation and personal origin.
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