Covington Fair set with Derby Day racing and free exhibits
The Covington Fair runs September 5 to 8 with six Derby Day running events totaling $800 in purses. Purdue supervised youth exhibits under a large tent feature steers pigs and canned goods. A 1917 Ford Touring Car will be awarded Friday, band performances by Attica Car Couplers Band, and admission stays 25 cents for adults 15 cents for children.
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Covington
Lexington
Chicago
Louisville
Purdue
Purdue University
Rosencrans
Attica
Wiley’s Warblings and Local Social Bits
A compendium of humorous verse and local notes recounts topics from microbes and milk sterilization to cigarette coupons and Christmas ahead. It mentions an Indianapolis firm paying for jimson weeds and a Peoria divorce suit, plus marriage notices in Frankfort Kentucky.
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Indianapolis
Farmer Boys
Stand offs from hot weather in a humorous essay
The piece muses on Emersonian ideas that every ill has a compensating side and lists quick observations. It notes corn growing fast, summer rains reducing mosquitoes, hot nights barely hurting parks, and political stances shifting as Roosevelt backs Hughes while Bryan campaigns for Wilson. It ends with wool hats saving trips to the cleaner as straw hats fade.
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Roosevelt
Hughes
Bryan
Wilson
Local residents host visits and travels across Indiana and beyond
J E Coen family and Mrs Jared Frankenfield drove to Lafayette on Thursday for a day visit. Miss Daisy Mellett stays with sister near Veedersburg. Several couples dine with relatives in Lafayette and Waveland. Mrs Martha Beckley visits Bloomington. Herschel Henson and Texas relatives visit Ida Phelps. Many journeys continue to Richmond and Virginia. Miss Isabel Kerr undergoes tonsil and adenoid removal in Indianapolis.
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Paul Riley
Wingate
Rev. Baer
Michigan
John Pitman
Frankfort
Rudy Wood
Frank Martin
Samuel Rodgers
Lee Smith
Danville
Ill
Carl Haas
Jackson Deeter
Esther Campbell
Greencastle
H. C. Riley
Paul
Lafayette
Elwood Gray
Veedersburg
J. K. Chester
George Bennett
Will Clarkson
Jared Frankenfield
Crawfordsville
Rockville
Dan Spendling
Noland Wright
Mrs. Harper
Carl Harris
J. E. Coen
Daisy Mellett
Valmer McKnight
Near Veedersburg
Electa Cunningham
J. R. Chester
Bertha Dinwiddie
Laura Whitehall
James Mitchel
Grace McKinney
Doc Donalson
Martha Beckley
Bloomington
Herschel Henson
Texas
Ida Phelps
Herbert Campbell
New York
Helen Fate
Jasper McCulough
Mary
Virginia
Melville Wood
Jesse Graves
Waveland
Rufus McCullough
Fairbury
Zuck
Moody Bible Institute
Chicago
M. E
John Martin
George Chamberlain
Richmond
Ed Zuck
Brook
Ind
Raymond Hunnings
Attica
Helen Corbin
Oklahoma
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Band of Forty
John D. Smith
With
New Market Hardware Co
New Market Indiana
The
Hartford Insurance
cZarEs
P. O
Col
W. Smith
Newtown
Indiana
Hillsboro
William Nine
Wiley
Luke McLuke
Glum
John White
Sallie Allcoons
Allioon
Peoria
Columbus
S. R. Shuler & Son
Mrs. Gentry
Gentry
Sadie Kiff
Bessie Simms
Guy Kerr
Isabel
Holland Palin
Mary Kellogg
Margaret
Martha Man
Halbert Royal
Will Smith
Clifford Wright
George Lawton
Sam Harris
Hillsboro Times
Waynetown Despatch
J. Frank McDermond
India
Cs G. & C. Merrian
Springfield
Mags
Dr. L. M. Beaven
Ben-Hur
James
West Point
R. RB
Sayler Brothers
C. A. Roark
Waynetown, Ind
Redmen
Ihours
Res. Wayne Hotel
Northern Cafe
Endicott
East Main Street
Bishof
Crawfordsville, Indiana
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