Tobacco markets in Kentucky face crowded floors and low prices
Owensboro reports 1,110,400 pounds of Pryor tobacco sold for 178000 dollars with average 15.20 per hundred. markets crowded and hopeful buyers scarce. Hopkinsville and Glasgow show overloaded floors, delayed sales, and broadly lower prices ranging from 4 to 26 dollars. Madisonville and Bowling Green note high volumes and daily sales while warning of upcoming breaks after January 10. Major Lallenger writes of wartime letters and gratitude, ending with Christmas and New Year wishes.
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Owensborn
Dee
Owensboro
Owenabioro
Hopkinsville
Jos
Mailisonville
Madisonville
Wake
Bowling Green
Howling Green
Tractor accident nearly claims Henry Pirtle life
Mr Henry Pirtle narrowly escaped severe injuries when a tractor he was attaching to a threshing machine toppled backward. The machine crushed his upper body and head, broke an arm and fractured a shoulder. bystanders freed him and physicians treated his wounds. He is expected to recover.
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Henry Pirtle
Mr. Pirtle
Henry Leach
Mr. Plrde Woder Wi
Virgil Elgin
Mr. Pintle
Letter From France Praises Soldiers And Liberty
Maj Lallenger writes from France praising the soldiers for their bravery and victory over the foe in the war. He thanks Hartford Kentucky readers for their kind remarks and highlights news of loved ones at home as the greatest experience.
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Maj
Lallenger
France
Hartford
Alan
Dundee Squire Fines Auto Driver for Speeding
Squire W. Dean of Dundee, Ohio, becomes the first county official to impose a fine for speeding. A young man named Murphy was arrested and tried, fined $25, as other officials have neglected duty in curbing racing speeds. The article urges peers to join in this safety crusade and end the dangerous practice.
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Psquire
Dean
Dundee
Ohio
Murphy
Squire Dean
Everett P Taylor Dead In West Frankfort
Everett P Taylor died suddenly Sunday morning in West Frankfort from heart failure while en route to his store. His remains were moved to Beaver Dam for burial with masonic rites in which he was an honored member. A longtime druggist and public official, he later ran a Nortonville drug business and then engaged in funeral burials at West Frankfort.
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Everett P. Taylor
West Frankfort
Taylor
Beaver Dam
Imagens
Mr. Taylor
Hoover Dam
Nortonville
Everett
Ohio County
Adjudged Insane in Ohio County Inquest
An inquest in county court judged Pete Norman of Cromwell insane. He will be sent to Hopkinsville Asylum. Norman was briefly at the asylum last spring, returned home after improvement, but recently became violently insane again. Norman was a member of the Kentucky State Guard and served with the Ohio County Company on the Mexican border two years ago.
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County Coll
Pete Norman
Cromwell
Norman
Hopkinayville Asylum
Als
Jastow
Kentucky State Guard
Ohio County Company
Doctors Combine Defended in Cromwell Paper
A defense of the doctors' combine appears as Dr. Onear Allen argues physicians may charge for services. The piece condemns price fixing, notes the scarcity of doctors, and urges fair payment while criticizing mercenary motives in medicine. It recalls a poor family’s call and a farmer who chooses to subscribe rather than skip payments.
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Onear Allen
Cromwell
Indomt
Allen
Congress
Beral
Stock Exchange
Porton
Last Gun Heard war letter from BSTILLIE in France
A 1918 letter from BSTILLIE of Centertown Kentucky to his father inquires about peace, describes witnessing the end of World War I, and expresses longing to return home with hope for reunions with Mapa and Mamma while serving with the American Expeditionary Forces in France.
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Lee Maxon
Centertown
France
United States
Mapa
Mamma
Leanne
Bstillie
Ed Hwan and family move to farm in Ohio County
Former Hancock County deputy sheriff and long time sheriff Ed Ff. Hwan with son Bertram and two children relocates Monday to a farm near Hartford in Ohio County. Hwan, highly respected locally, laments leaving Hancock after seeking an affordable county farm. He previously managed county office affairs with broad goodwill. Ewan purchased Tom Duke's farm near Sunnydate.
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Ed Ff. Hwan
Bertram
Ohio County
Hartford
Ewan
Wan
Hancock County
Hancork County
Ed Hwan
Bank of Hartford to Install New Fixtures in Kentucky Bank
The Bank of Hartford buys and will install complete new fixtures by year’s end. Marble base and polished wire-cased casing will give the bank in Kentucky a costly attractive look. The design blends modernity with oldtime farming charm as Met Hunter remains the same while serving customers.
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Bank of Hartford
Kentucky
Hunter
Emile
Sam Leach Dies at Home South of Beaver Dam
Sam Leach died Saturday at his home south of Beaver Dam after a ten day illness from pneumonia following an infection. Once county treasurer and later justice of the peace, he was a respected figure, active in public affairs, with wide information and public spirit. The Republican extends condolences to his family.
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Sam Leach
Beaver Dam
Mr Leach
Republcan
Dog Tag Law Takes Effect January First
A new dog tag ordinance will start January 1 requiring owners to show tags or face fines. Officers will impound dogs found without tags after the year begins, with a one dollar fee for impounding.
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Utn & Fee
Recent Warrants Report From McHenry and Sunnydale
McHenry resident ER B Harrel seeks arrest warrant for Charlie House over alleged theft of 51 dollars from a trunk. Denver Coots of Sunnydale is named in a separate county charge for housebreaking after allegedly breaking into George Mickey's Dukehurst store and absconding Saturday night.
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ER. B. Harrel
McHenry
Charlie House
House
Skiddoed
Denver Coots
Sunnydale
George Mickey
Dukehurst
Coote T
Wor Sale of Lot and Two Story Brick Storehouse
Notice advertises a lot and two story brick storehouse in Hartford in good condition and desirable location. It warns of legal penalties for noncompliance and directs inquiries to this office.
Dog law fines and a soldier roll of honor
The notice outlines penalties for dog owners failing to tag dogs and for sheriffs failing to impound untagged dogs, with fines and up to thirty days imprisonment. It lists names of soldiers killed or dying of wounds in France for a monument, inviting missing names to be reported. A separate brief reports John Harrel, a young man married before fifteen, facing desertion and failure to provide for two children, with a warrant and forthcoming court action.
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France
Arthur B. Laws
Robert Davis
Eddie Lee
Cecil Draper
Lee Kieth
Oscar Duvall
John Crow
Chester Reed
Sergt
Chas
C. Main
Malin A. Benton
Cyrus Williams
Dudley Evans
Douglas Taylor
Clarence Gabbert
Owensboro Tobacco Sales Season Totals Reported
Owensboro market tallies show season to date volumes by house with pounds and average prices. West Ninth Street House leads at 1,593,605 pounds averaging 16.03 dollars. Lancaster 938,606 at 15.05. Daviess County House 579,850 at 14.97. Equity House 295,390 at 15.46. Yield Bros 116,540 at 15.22. Electric House 66,255 at 14.61. Total 4,386,245 pounds at 15.43 average. Also note Agnes Brookins of Hayts faces commonwealth charge for butting. Hal Lawrence’s wife alleges an attack. County attorney weighs applicable penalties for breach of the peace.
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West Ninth Street
Lancaster
Daviess County House
Equity House
Agnes Brookins
Hayts
Commonwealth
Hal Lawrence
Agnes
Food price control plans eyed after armistice
Washington dispatch reports that postwar food price control may continue under new supervision to curb profiteering as retailers raised prices after the armistice. Hoover warns against allowing profiteering and favors extending enforcement through federal agencies, while constitutional limits complicate transferring duties to other departments.
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Washington
Penen
The
Food Administration
Herbert Hoover
Europe
White House
Federal Trade Commissions
Food Administrations
W. B. Colver
Commission
Fragmented OCR notices on illness and public awareness
An unclear OCR passage mentions a Mr Dillie Boyd, a center chant and an evoked exercise of the art. It references a crowd and music, a young man, and a group affected by a disease. The text is garbled with many errors, hindering precise facts.
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Dillie Boyd
Amber
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Owens
Robert W. Hobbs
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