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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1911
Page
6
A hotel guest disputing a bill under the American plan ate dinner in the other dining room after claims of one dinner paid. The waiter charged him for dinner he had not planned, noting the English plan in the other room. The man protested, insisting on the American plan.
A 19th century dental style ad proclaims Hall's Catarrh Cure as the only positive cure for catarrh a constitutional disease. It offers $100 if it fails to cure and promotes internal ingestion to boost blood and mucous surfaces with testimonials and advertised pills. Includes contact details and a note about selling sale bills at the Republican office.
A certified copy of a judgment from the Fountain County Circuit Court directs a public sale to satisfy nineteen hundred thirty four dollars and thirteen cents plus interest and costs. William Gamble Jesse Gunkle and other plaintiffs sue the Rush Coal Company et al. against whom the sale is ordered.
Saturday October 21 1911 at Covington Fountain County Indiana public sale of rents and profits for seven years from described coal land including West half of NW quarter of NW quarter twenty acres and East one sixth of NW quarter of NW quarter six and two thirds acres plus a 30 foot by 45 rod railroad and lateral way right of way parcel. If rents fail to satisfy judgment sale of fee simple property to cover judgment and costs. Dw 920-11.
Washington reports on the Tariff Board under the Republican view that modern cost analysis and field data can produce precise tariff schedules. Wool and worsted statistics are gathered by an army of agents across states like Wyoming and Pennsylvania, with global coverage. The piece compares the Board’s systematic method to business accounting and notes its potential to settle partisan tariff debates through calculations.
The article notes sunflowers have decorative roots and potential as an economic crop. It highlights Russia leading in cultivation, with India, Egypt, Turkey, Germany, Italy, and France showing interest. Seeds serve as fowl feed and human food in Russia, while oil from seeds is valued for table use and later byproducts for candles soap hair oil and linseed oil substitutes.
Lizzie accuses Saha ase of kissing while asleep and Percy confesses taking one kiss. Lizzie says she counted twelve kisses before waking. The exchange centers on private misconduct and embattled trust.
An Indianapolis woman recalls hiring a new colored servant from Kentucky and the servant using the obsolete word pernickety to describe fastidious. The narrator traces the term's journey across generations from Virginia to Kentucky and now Indiana, noting its proper usage by the servant.
Mrs Earle's contribution to English life history in the first half of the last century includes a fresh blossom in the saddless wreath of Sydney Smith's wit. A remark about an aunt at Bath reveals his quip that everyone has an aunt at Bath, a perfect ant heap.
A genial host jokes that his wife has a capital device to remove a fish bone stuck in the throat and they plan to test it during dinner. The London Globe quotes the remark, hinting at a lighthearted dinner scene.
A New Yorker replies that civil service exists in the department and is fixed so employees cannot be discharged unless those in charge want it. The Cleveland Plain Dealer notes the remark as a pointed critique of job security under civil service.
Const Matuschka-Griffenklau convened archaeologists at Winkel-on-the-Rhine to declare the oldest house in Europe still in use. The site, once home to Bishop Mayence Rabaus Maurus, who died there in 850, is highlighted by the gathering.
A San Francisco agent argues that decades after Darwin's Origin of Species no wild animal or plant variety has been shown to originate through natural selection. The statement challenges the full acceptance of natural selection as the sole mechanism of evolution.
One hundred dollars reward for any catarrh case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio. Testimonials free. Hall's Catarrh Cure taken internally. Price 75 cents per bottle. Sold by druggists.
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