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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1908
Page
5
An old advertisement touts Ko wesy's Laxative Conga syrup as a gentler remedy for coughs and throat irritation. It claims not to constipate like traditional tonics and emphasizes movement of the bowels and soothing throat irritation.
Writ of execution issued by Fountain County Circuit Court directs public sale for the case Mayer v Diffenderfer. Sealed figures show a debt of 267.10 dollars plus interest and costs, with sale to proceed to the highest bidder at a specified public venue.
Between 10 a m and 4 pm at the courthouse Covington Fountain County Indiana the rents and profits for up to seven years of undivided one eighth of the east half of the southeast quarter section 12 township 20 range 9 and east half of the northeast quarter section 13 township 20 range 9 and west one third of the north fraction of the northwest quarter section 18 township 20 range 8 containing eighty seventy seven and thirty acres respectively will be offered. If not sold for enough to satisfy the decree interest and costs a public sale of the fee simple of the real estate or sufficient part will occur to discharge the decree interest and costs. Sale without relief from valuation or ap praisement laws. JOHN R. HARDES TY Sheriff Fountain County. J B. Martin Attorney for Cliff Sept 18 1908 4w.
The Fountain County Auditor announces bids for meats groceries dry goods and furnishings for three months for the county asylum inmates. Estimates on file for inspection. bids received by noon. Commissioners reserve right to reject any or all bids. W. B. Gray Auditor. 94-08. Fountain County.
Fountain County Indiana invites sealed bids for retaining walls at St House Bridge and wings at Thomas Bridge. Bids due 1:30 p.m. with bond, plans at County Auditor office in Covington. Work to be finished by Nov 1, 1908. board may reject any bid.
Cincinnati report details William H. Taft’s planned nationwide campaign tour ahead of the November election. He pledges strong enforcement of interstate business law, support for stock and bond oversight of railroads, and credits the Republican record on labor. Taft emphasizes reformist policy aims and accuses Bryan and Democrats of prolonging conflict in the Philippines. He rests at his brother Charles P. Taft’s home in Cincinnati.
About 30 000 to 40 000 visitors gathered in Peoria to hear W. J. Bryan and Adlai Stevenson address the Illinois Democratic state convention. Bryan urged preserving state sovereignty and opposing federal overreach while endorsing robust state power and corporate regulation within constitutional limits.
A speech discusses strike law, union rights, and Gompers with emphasis on court power and procedural improvements. It argues no legal abolition of union organization, criticizes Bryan's three labor proposals, and urges Republican union workers to reject Gompers's Bryan endorsement while endorsing court-based bounds on strife. It closes with unrelated health ads and livestock notices typical of era.
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