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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1912
Page
5
A compact survey of daily social notes from Covington and surrounding areas. Mentions callers, new cashier hires, store ads, car trips, guests visiting relatives, sales events, and a change in the Homer Sewell Abstract Co. account settlements. Includes marriage licenses and local travels to Terre Haute and Crawfordsville.
A San Antonio man touts Dr. King's New Life Pills as mild effective laxative solving constipation. The ad claims thousands swear by them and cites a testimonial that they are the best pills the husband and wife have taken with no pain. Price is 25 cents and recommended by Irvin's Drug Store.
The notice lists a closing out sale for Lewsader and Clem Stock Saturday Oct 25 with mentions of Read Coleman's new ad and seasonable goods. It also notes Mrs S Kaufman entertaining the Euchre Club Thursday, and JB Judy of Judyville offering bargains to cash or time customers with ads in this issue. Additional notes refer to Dr Longacre visiting friends in Ekart county Goshen and family updates involving Mrs Eugene Ford and relatives.
Various short items listing property sale in Jefferson Street area for 900 dollars cash Nellie Bonebrake Danville visitors and visits by Alvah DeHaven William Brant and family shopping and travel notes coal stove for sale and local officials candidates Steely room restaurant plans Williamsport marshal candidate Will Collins News from Rock salt cement and county agent fundraising efforts in Warren County with multiple family names and local businesses mentioned
Frost Harden bought the residence property occupied by C. W. Bowman. The reason a bachelor would seek such a residence remains unclear to long-time residents.
Lawrence Murphy and Miss Alivia A Hill of Danville were married Saturday after obtaining a license in the clerk's office with Mayor T H McGeorge officiating.
A car load of Michigan potatoes will be available in about ten days when ripe for winter storage. Buyers are warned to avoid green potatoes and wait for the arriving stock. Prices are advertised as low as ever.
Mrs E W Strecker was elected Corresponding Secretary of the Society at the District meeting of the Womans Foreign Missionary Society in Indianapolis held Thursday and Friday. The honor is well deserved.
The French paper Cri de Paris notes Maurice Maeterlinck agreed to spar rounds with Carpentier for a Paris charity. It recalls Byron boxing at Cribb’s, Shelley’s sharp replies to a rude keeper, and Keats fighting a butcher after mistaking him for a coward.
The National Association For the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis calls for 200000 churches schools labor unions and fraternal orders to join the fourth national tuberculosis day on December 7. The plan seeks weekly lectures and appeals to leaders to educate and move patients into special hospitals as millions of consumptives face limited home care and hospital capacity.
The article notes hostility from native populations toward surveying work in India Attica and South America. It argues for establishing many secondary fixed points using enduring natural features to safeguard triangulation baselines in uncivilized regions.
The London Lancet urges reform as motorcars foul city streets with evil odors and acrid fumes. It warns air analyses may reveal higher levels of carbonic acid gas hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide than in horse traffic days.
The Farrow's bank in London for women, opened a few years ago, has been transferred to enlarged premises in the west end. The manager credits women's support for its success, noting the bank's transactions match those of conventional banks. The entire staff is female.
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