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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1912
Page
6
Senator Farle Chamberlain of Oregon recalls a cafe lunch conversation about vacation time and the famed call of the wild. Four businessmen discuss heading to the woods while one votes dissent, then a late return home is cited from a Philadelphia Telegraph item.
A collection of proverbs from Greece Turkey Persia China Arab Hebrew and the Bible highlight the tongue's power. Each nation warns that words can harm or reveal character more than weapons or deeds. The verses conclude with a moral about controlling speech to safeguard one’s aims.
In a church on a children's Sunday a father led his growing family to the baptismal font for a well worn ceremony. The clergyman joked about the unusual surnames as rain pattered on the roof, quipping about a cloudburst.
Lord Lytton, as viceroy of India, sits beside Mrs Birch at dinner. He jokes about Birches, claiming intimate knowledge from Eton. She reveals Birches are her relatives, prompting the remark that she and her husband were offended by the insult.
An anecdote recalls a Connecticut man J Coolidge Hills and friends on a Long Island surf trip. A young woman nearly drowned after a strong breaker, losing consciousness before rescue. She recalled waking to a frightful disappointment believing she was in heaven.
Friends of Johns Hopkins University aim to raise 750000 to match Rockefeller 250000 and total 1 million to relocate the institution to Homewood, a stately Baltimore estate. Dr Ira Remsen, the president, spoke to students about the plan and encountered lighthearted jokes about a bluff in poker lore.
A compilation of diverse 1910 era notes covers topics from census data and city projects to industrial advances and public health. It reports a Mexico population of 15 160 369 in 1910, St Louis sewer plans, Glasgow population ranking, Brazilian IM migration, and tuberculosis day goals among others.
An American tourist lacking proper attire visits a Paris court ball in Tuileries. With his blue coat white waistcoat and buff trousers he insists his usual Boston court dress is appropriate. A junky corrects him before officials welcome the amused guest as a symbol of American democratic spirit.
A 17th century quotation attributed to Joseph Addison speaks on enduring virtue. True character, good habits and iron industry are described as impregnable to ill luck that fools imagine.
A Washington anecdote features Joseph G. Cannon chatting on Pennsylvania Avenue when an elderly man mistakes him for Uncle Joe Cannon. The man compliments Cannon’s looks and notes Uncle Joe and Uncle Shelby Cullom resemble him. A light humor thread follows.
An engaged girl and her fiancé should balance attention to each other with consideration for parents relatives and friends. The article urges politeness toward old and new relations, warns against overly private behavior, and advises seeking counsel from family as years ahead unfold.
In a Bowery tale Tim Sullivan brings a 4 Bowery scrapper to dinner and asks what dessert is. The man asks what dessert means and Sullivan explains it as something eaten after you are done. The man replies bring me a beef stew.
A New York Tribune article highlights numerous household uses for adhesive tape. It suggests labeling bottles and jars, mending hot water bottles and hoses, repairing clothing, reattaching window shades, preventing foot chafing, binding sheet music, attaching manuscripts, and training plants and vines.
The first auction sale in England occurred in 1700 by Elisha Yale, ex governor of Madras, whose method spread quickly. By the late 18th century taxes and licenses shaped the trade, while abuses by colluding brokers and fake sales led to stricter regulation. Similar frauds in America prompted heavy penalties and prison terms to curb improvised auctions.
Tamworth castle stands on a Saxon site once the Mercian kings seat with a Marmion link. The Jacobean edifice rises on a mound with ivy clad tower and a gloomy banqueting hall. It was sold to the corporation by the Marquis Townshend, a Marmion descendant.
A French subprefect, a high official, reports quelling tremors by summoning the government attorney the lieutenant of gendarmerie and the police magistrate. He says he has donned his uniform and awaits orders from the minister of the interior as seismic activity is felt in the provinces.
An observant note from the New York Tribune warns that a society exhausted by constant work will erode art music and literature. It laments a future where culture is reduced to pre digested tabloid forms for quick consumption by weary business people.
In a chatty exchange two women debate wedding timing. She cites her ill dressmaker and her father's willingness to pay as reasons to postpone the marriage despite superstition about bad luck.
Fragmentary chatter describes a dog escape timing with a door opening and a person named Bir. Braun possibly involved as a misheard reference. No clear event details or full identities.
Fragments indicate a terse note or caption about actions or inactions at Dri and Prudently. No further specifics, dates, or names are readable.
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