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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1912
Page
6
Consumers are urged to send orders for periodicals including Pictorial Review and National Food Magazine to the Magazine Circulation Company at 327 533 South Dearborn Street Chicago. They offer a magazine guide with special prices and combinations at the lowest price upon request.
Rail timetable lists arrivals at Covington 9 15 a m and 40 wean. Depart Attica 8 0 a m and 3 40 p m. Covington depart 10 50 a m and 40 p m, arrive Attica 11 40 and 5 33 p m. Fast and local trains numbered 2 28 and 6 4 50 and 1149 shown with diurnal and Sunday patterns.
A report to the London County Council education committee describes a nearly 13 year old Peckham pupil who cannot learn. He has forgotten two or three letters, cannot write or calculate, and the committee decides to expel him from school.
Professor Welling recalls the heroism of Ranger Pulaski who saved thirty five men during a ferocious forest blaze in the Coeur d Alene reservation. Pulaski used a mine shaft shelter and a blanket shield to protect his crew, losing five men but preserving the rest despite burns and blindness.
The Indiana Good Roads Association, led by Clarence A. Kenyon, expands efforts to overhaul road policy. It advocates state aid and supervision, a state levy, auto taxes, and classified main roads with skilled maintenance, funded by cash road taxes and national aid. The group emphasizes nonpartisan, transparent leadership with open records and invites public input.
William Burley a Carrolton merchant and Mrs Walter Evans wife of another man were captured after a ten day chase across two states. They were paraded through Carrolton in chains to Sheriff Morrow amid jeers. Burley held on $500 bond for the September grand jury.
James Watkins, jailed in Searchlight Nev for stealing lace curtains, asked to feed his pet cats. He escaped at night, walked forty miles across the desert to his cabin, where the sheriff found him pouring milk for the cats. The accuser may drop charges after noting the miner’s devotion to his pets.
William H. Herndon, 73, of Alameda California, carried more than $22,000 in checks and five bank books when detained at Park Row station. Police learned his identity at the detention hospital after he wandered confused and unable to answer questions about his whereabouts.
In Chicago a judge commuted a death sentence for a fox terrier named Jack after neighborhood children protested. The dog, which had bitten a small boy, will now live imprisoned behind a wire muzzle under Judge Williams.
The mangled body of Thomas Wheeler fifty former and veterinary was found in a pasture. He had been gored to death by a ball.
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