Tobacco Market Opens Amid Grower Protests in Kentucky
Glasgow’s tobacco market opened with about 1000 farmers protesting high prices and calling for a price around 20 cents. Reports from Hopkinsville Owensboro Lexington and other Kentucky towns show strong demand, rising prices, record leaf sales, and major buyers like the American Tobacco Company entering the market.
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Glascow
Glasgow
Burton
Tolceo
Dave Tobacco
Choy
Hopkineville
Dee
Lawful Guardians Named For Orphans In Two Counties
In Muhlenburg county, Mack Henrix brother of the deceased father becomes guardian of the children after a habeas corpus writ. In Ohio county, Clarence Noark, brother of the mother, brings the orphans home and also acts as guardian. Court rules residence of parents determines the children's residence. Muhlenburg guardian awarded custody. Insurance valued around two thousand dollars will go to the children's benefit. Relatives avoided responsibility, prompting the legal action.
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Jule Cooke
Enner Mead
Mir Benneis
Muhlenturge
Anit Feft
Mack Henirix
Muhlenhare
Clarence Noark
Ohio County
Iren
Ohio
Mabtenburg
Muhtensburg
Hartford prank ends in uneasy sleep for hat salesman
A Hartford town prank involving a traveling hat salesman staged as a snipe hunt led to a weary return to his hotel. The youths lured him to a dark ravine, gave fake instructions, and fled, leaving him to fend for himself. Johnie Moore and John Ross Taylor are named as locals involved in the incident alongside later mentions of potential trouble for the next visiting salesman.
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Hartford
Ohio
Holbeck
Aroun
Wight
Johnie Moore
John Ross ‘Taylor
Influenza Epidemic Eases Across County
The flu season shows decline in most areas with only Fordsville and Centertown still heavily affected. County health board met to discuss removing the ban on Hartford, noting no new crises locally though widespread illness remains in other communities.
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Fordsville
Centertown
Informatin
County Board of Health
Weinenday
Hartford
Abie
Camp Taylor Boys Home For Christmas
Announcement says most soldiers at Camp Taylor will be mustered out by December 20 and return home for Christmas. Many Ohio county boys at Louisville Can will receive a royal welcome, making Christmas joyful for Kentucky families.
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Camp Taylor
Kentucky
Ohio County
Louisville
WANTED WIFE FOR POSTED WIDOWER Hattie Noll Seeks Applicants
A notice from Hattie Noll on behalf of a widower without children invites women to apply for marriage. The ad lists preferred traits, offers 17 percent of the living for two, and specifies conditions about farm ownership, children, and income. Prospective applicants are asked to reply by letter, with no photographs exchanged.
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Tinsley
Hattie Noll
Battle
Batiie
Tinsley and
Ourself
Odd News From Rockport Readers Share Family Relics
Mrs Neflie Her of Rockport sends a letter listing curious items passed through generations including jet bead necklace from a great grandmother, a shaving cage dating to 1920s, vest buttons made from Civil War coins, and a deed signed by Governor Shelby. She also notes household mishaps with rivets and corn plasters, ending with a light comment on common mistakes.
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Tockport
Republican
Hartford
Mary Chaseler
Joe Young
Beaver Dam
Shelby
Kentucky
Parmers Talk Tobacco At Owensboro Meeting
Farmers as members of The American Co operative Association met in Owensboro on Saturday to discuss tobacco wares. George Jones of Ohio county was elected chairman after a nomination praising his clean record. Debate over former leaders selling out continued, and it was decided to sell tobacco through the A C A at prices satisfactory to the farmers.
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American Co-operative Association
Owensboro
George Jones
Ohio County
Jones
Our Honor Roll of Soldiers Killed in France
The list names Arthur B. Laws and Robert Davis as soldiers who died of wounds in France. The paper invites relatives to report any missing names to complete the roll for the monument.
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France
Arthur B. Laws
Robert Davis
Good Tobacco News From Owensboro Market Report
A buyer visited Owensboro Tuesday paying 20 20 and 12 dollars for two Habaneo crops tied to Mr John Deke and Mr Henry Bean. Prices on the Owensboro tobacco market have stiffened this week with ads noting higher bids than prior weeks. Farmers are advised to hold tobacco as market prices rise toward last season levels.
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Owensboro Tobacco Company
John Deke
Henry Bean
Owensboro
Towaday
Undefined OCR Fragment Highlights Hidden Facts
A garbled OCR passage mentions Uncle Alec Curtio and a mysterious box claimed to cure disease, with unclear names and events. The text is fragmented and hard to parse, but hints at a familial figure involved in a questionable remedy purchase and a return to a den or party.
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Alec Curtio
Ale
Cure & Cobb
Howe Liter
Widow Nancy Alford Dies at White Run Residence
Mrs Nancy Alford died Thursday night at her daughter’s home and was buried near White Run on Friday. Mire Alford suffered a paralytic stroke Wednesday and died within hours. Nancy was ninety, widow of Pete Alford of White Run, and left a letter from France dated November 10 1915 detailing WWI service with the 20th Division and life on the front.
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Nancy Alford
Ed Davison
White Run
Mire Alford
Pete Alford
Prance
Hartford Republican
Evite
France
Hindenburg
States
Arthur B. Shields
Governor Stanley Grants Sensational Pardons in Goebel Case
The governor pardoned Henry Youtsey and Curt Jett, both long imprisoned for high profile murders tied to the Goebel case era. Youtsey, jailed 18 years for complicity in Goebel’s murder, and Jett, serving a double life for murders related to Jim Cockrill and Dr. Marcum, were among those connected to partisan trials of the time. Jett, related to Judge Hargis, plans to join the Methodist ministry and Wilmore College. Youtsey will return to a farm near Ft. Thomas with future plans undisclosed.
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Stanley
Henry Youtsey
Curt Jett
Youtsey
Penitentiary
Senator Goebel
Jett
Jim Cockrill
Dr. Marcum
Jackson
Jim Hargis
Breathitt County
Gobel Youtsey
Goebel
Republican Party
Hargis
Hargis-Callahan
Methodist Church
Wilmore College
Ft. Thomas
The Country Newspaper Struggles Under War Prices
The country press faces severe war costs with printers and paper prices rising while print shop wages surge. Over six hundred country papers have closed in a year, leaving only papers with strong equipment and management. The Hartford Republican, aided by public patronage, remains financially solid and hopeful for the future.
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Kentucky
Hartford Republcan
Tobacco sales totals reported in Owensboro district
Last week tobacco sales across Owensboro report West Ninth Street at 445 876 pounds with 1448 dollars average, Lantarter House at 409 035 pounds averaging 13900, Equity Hone at 124 25 pounds averaging 14 95, Blvetriy Huse 24 420 pounds, Piedd Hrothers 25 535 pounds averaging 1250, Daviess County 166 650 pounds averaging 10 49.
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West Ninth Stree
Lantarter House
Piedd Hrothers
Daviess Couunty
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