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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1912
Page
2
A young wife in her husband’s old house confronts a mother’s modern furniture. After negotiating with her husband and the store, they trade back the pieces for antiques and refurbish the old parlor. The daughter lines the rooms with aged furnishings, replacing screens and adding cream brick hearth-stones. The mother rejoices at the nostalgia rekindled.
A superb dragon fly preserved in amber, dated to the tertiary period, was presented to an English statesman by a wealthy Russian merchant. The clear yellow insect, nearly perfect, is among the finest fossil specimens found in amber, formed when resin from pine trees fossilized over tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of years.
The piece extols nature as a universal healer, citing sunshine water air and earth as vital sources of health. It asserts humanity survives plagues due to these elements and a universal recovery power extending to mind and soul, centered on the idea that Nature is The Healer.
Visitors at Ferry Bar watched a horse wedged high in a tree after a ten foot fall from an overhanging bank. Belts and blocks fixed to a stump were used to lower the animal as workers cut limbs to free it. The horse, aside from a few scratches, was unhurt.
Edgar Thurston reports in a new England-published book on South Indian omens and superstitions rooted in ancient Draavidian beliefs. He notes charms against the evil eye, including red hand impressions on mosques and Brahmin houses at Kadur, with a photograph reproduced.
Real estate transfers filed for record in Fountain County show numerous transactions. Names include Marx Herzog Edward Hershberger and Isaac Allen with several land and lot transfers across Wabash Troy Attica and Jackson townships, with prices listed from $1 to $19 000 and parcels ranging from 12 to 127.55 acres.
John G Gordon and wife 16 B Best lots 46 47 48 49 50 G add Kingmen 820 Eddie Russell et al to Margaret E McMahon 55 acres Troy township Steely McMahon and wife to Margaret McMahon lot 183C add Covington For Sale 290 acres near Covington with 110 acres plowed good fences tiling and buildings price 140 per acre terms available Massry Son Covington Johny Lape from Attica visited last Friday for business concerns
Names listed for advertisement including Miss Esther Moore Miss Lois Allen Jim Beal Monsieur Joseph Despertz Rev John Hager Mrs Montie Haines Ira Holland Rena Linn Mrs Alice Miller S W Phillips Peat Sualis Wessley Grace Thrapp Cash Tolover Ratchen Wright and a note to call for above. Also a testimonial for Bucklen's Arnica Salve praising its use on burns boils sores and other skin complaints with a price of 25 cents at druggists.
A banker back from abroad attends church and ponders Noahs ark voyage. After the sermon he tells his wife that Noah had a consolation: there were no customs inspectors to hold up his trunks when he landed.
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