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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1911
Page
5
Hodges reports a method from Chicago Record-Herald claiming that imagining running up stairs or a hill directs blood flow, stopping nosebleeds. He notes thoughts can trigger bodily changes and even cause saliva to form when imagining demons, urging quick belief in the action.
The Washington Post recounts how Blackfoot and Alaska Indians used buffalo tongues and walrus whiskers as practical items. It notes buffalo tongue brushes were common in the past but vanished with buffalo decline, while walrus whisker toothpicks traveled to Chinese diners.
Passengers on a Norristown express witnessed a handcuffed prisoner pleading for aid after escaping jail to visit his dying wife. At Manayunk a constable explained the case and twenty men contributed 50 dollars to cover his double fine and release. One passenger admitted he had seen the same ruse elsewhere.
A collage of brief exchanges and quips from early 20th century papers. Bits include a parent and child arguing about a broken window, amateur night chatter, playful editorial exchanges about rare catfish and a dog as an alarm clock, all reflecting light humor and social snippets of the era.
Free Methodist camp meeting will be held at Ravine Park in Attica from August 2 to September 3. Pine Village Stock Show runs from August through September 2. The Indiana State Fair takes place in Indianapolis September 4 to 8. Boswell Fair and Covington Fair run September 12 to 15. A Redmen Powwow is planned in Lafayette on September 21, with logrolling events at Ravine Park in September.
The undersigned has been appointed and qualified by the Circuit Court of Fountain County Indiana as Executor of Parmella Crane's estate. The estate is supposed to be solvent. THOMAS A. CLIFTON, Executor.
Friday evening at 7 30 Miss Maude Martins music class presents final recital at Salem church four miles northeast of Covington. Admission ten cents. proceeds after expenses go to the church. Program features piano trios duets solos vocal pieces and a six girl symphony with multiple performers and composers including Berlioz Kern Weil Mozart Fero Flora and Faure.
A 19th century advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as the only positive cure for catarrh, claiming constitutional treatment via internal use and asserting a $100 reward if it fails. It urges readers to send for testimonials and lists J Cheney Co Toledo as the proprietors and the pills for constipation.
Mrs Wm Phebus died Sunday at her Rankin home after over six years of illness from paralysis. Born November 30 1834 near Covington Indiana she married William Phebus in 1854 and had 15 children. Funeral at home Tuesday led to Union Cemetery where she rests beside her husband.
Swiss villages charm visitors with abundant window boxes filled with geraniums nasturtiums carna tions and hydrangeas. In La Gruyere houses date to the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and the chateau of the counts predates them. Flowering plants brighten the town whether boxes sit on sills or on brackets outside walls.
The piece recalls 19th century English beliefs about witches in Norfolk. It recounts a 1883 incident where three brothers ducked an old woman from a pond, later throwing her into a hole after a tavern visit, almost drowning her. It notes a schoolmaster believing a witch’s blood must be shed to cure him, resulting in arm scratching until blood flowed.
In an eastern city a group of young girls staged a charity vaudeville act. A joking male patron hurled a cabbage head onto the stage as a gag. The performer read aloud a card from Edward Morgan and humorously noted the crowd’s reaction, saying she never expected him to lose his head and throw it on stage.
Brass and bronze are copper alloys. Brass blends copper with zinc while bronze combines copper with tin. Copper’s early discovery and use marked the Bronze Age, a period when this metal shaped tools for industry and warfare according to antiquarian accounts.
A man calls on a frequent visitor at the west end and is told the master and mistress have gone out. He insists on entering and sits by the fire, only to learn the fire has gone out as well. A short, witty domestic jest from Lemon.
In Emgoria Gazette a totalist proclaims a rise to a crown while a youth counters with I run an elevator. The dialogue contrasts ideological ascent with practical work as it unfolds in a brief quoted exchange.
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