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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1907
Page
2
A verse note from New York Press describes a convict linked to the sea, noting jacket marks as proof of his identity and asserting the tale of captivity and release in stark maritime imagery. The lines imply a maritime crime or punishment motif with dramatic irony.
In Lip Pincott's Magazine a conversation between a father and son defines a gent as the young man who visited the sister wearing a silk hat sack coat white tennis slippers a celluloid collar and a red necktie.
Two children spar over sires and a boast about a father who fired a cannon during a hill war. Mrs Uppson recalls her former nurse girl seeking work, while Mrs de Style defends whipping the dog for biting the baby, in a Detroit Tribune snippet.
A fragmentary dialogue jokes about luck and money. An old man asks if hare luck exists and a cynic replies that luck follows when five dollars is in someone's pocket, referencing Wall Street bulls and bears.
A brief Denver Post item notes a man asks about hair ends being lighter than roots. The woman replies the curls belong to her sister, implying mistaken or swapped hairstyles.
A Philadelphia Press quip debates whether Miss Pe chis has a good disposition. It suggests a smile may reflect good teeth and dimples rather than character, contrasted with a Brooklyn Life exchange about a late home call.
A brief Chicago News item records a playful exchange about luck and spring. Gunner jokes on robin sightings while Guyer warns danger from a slingshot, framing a light moment in a city note.
A Louisville Courier Journal piece highlights consumer finance rhetoric with line about payments being easy raised by a shopper. It notes a humorous promise of “a dollar down and a dollar when ever the collector ketches me” reflecting buyer hardship and debt collection chatter of the era.
A fragmentary dialogue from a newspaper page shows Mrs Wardup asking about her husband being an inventor and he replying with excuses. The text includes a quip about piano practice and identifies a piano music teacher in a brief, period voice.
A fragmentary survey notes Canada has the largest wheatfields worldwide at 300 by 900 nilles. It mentions the Mexican president’s four year term with no re election restriction. It also describes postal notes to July 1 by Postmaster General Cortelyou and rural dairy and fish remarks.
Brown of Harvard boosts Aida Johnson Young with a contract to write a comedy for James K. Hackett. De Wolf Hopper returns to the Majestic for a third metropolitan engagement after presenting Happyland at the Lyric and Casino. Jefferson the Angelis is named after Joseph Jefferson, with roots in the De Angelis acrobat family. W. H. Thompson finds success in Money Talks as a Western financier who believes in money. Nellie McCoy stars in The Earl and the Girl and is celebrated in a song Coy Nellie McCoy with lyrics by Arthur Sherman and music by H. A. Hardy.
A quirky collection notes that Liverpool tested and dropped a four penny slot telephone system. England imports about 150,060 bushels of apples weekly from the United States and Canada. London dry goods stores avoid clocks to keep workers from watching time. A London florists firm hires milliners to trim hats with natural flowers priced from 1.25 dollars upward. The High Mill at Yarmouth, England, a 120 foot tall twelve story windmill, has been demolished. An elderly woman applying for relief recalls a daughter who did not assist but kept up payments on her policy.
The St Louis Nationals offered In fellor McBride to George Tebeau for 750 dollars, but George did not view it that way. Washington baseball is booming with a strong club in charge. Charley Ebbetts of Brooklyn laments losses totaling 5000. Pitcher Dygert, famed for the spitball, struggled for the Athletics this season and was benched twice after starts.
Boston Globe highlights historic trees linked to U.S. history. The ash and tulip trees at Mount Vernon planted by Washington, the Burgoyne elm in Albany, the Eliot oak at Newton where John Eliot taught Indigenous peoples, pear trees planted by Endicott and Stuyvesant, and Hampton Institute’s Emancipation oak marking Lincoln's proclamation.
A fashion feature outlines the season's trends with patch pockets on tailored blouses, collarless yet with collar effects, lace varieties across garments, girdle arrangements mimicking princess lines on lingerie, and low necklines for evening wear. Appliques edge the necks with delicate beading.
A brief dialog captures a passenger asking the conductor about distance to the next accident as a woman from the home companion group engages in the exchange. The exchange reflects early 20th century travel etiquette and informal rail car conversation.
Mme Emma Eames, born 1867 in Shanghai, seeks a divorce from artist Julian Story after years apart and incompatible temperaments. Married in London 1891, Eames rose to fame at Paris Opera and New York debuts alongside the de Reszkes. Story, son of sculptor W W Story, studied at Eton and Oxford and lived in Paris before the marriage.
The story recounts Tillman with one eye and a page mistaking Cyclops for a mythic figure as he asks to see Senator Clay in the cloakroom. The anecdote, cited by Lippincott's, highlights the page’s humorous misnaming and the senators’ misfortune despite sharp perception.
An Aberdeen royal luncheon moment details King altering a guest card. He replaces Mrs Lyon with Lady Lyon, presenting the card to her, a keepsake of a notable day. The tale appears in Woman's Life.
An advert for Swamp Root promotes kidney and bladder health for both women and men. It claims kidney disease underlies many illnesses from bed wetting to poor vigor and mood, urging readers to try Dr Kilmer and Co's Swamp Root with sample mail offer and local druggist purchase options.
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