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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1912
Page
7
The piece muses on spring’s approach with imagery of sunlit days by gnarled sycamores, birds, violets, and streams. It recalls thawed ice, swallows’ return, flowers like lilacs and daffodils, and the hope of warmth after harsh winter, ending with a fragment about an accident insurance ad.
Stable advertises phone 281 for trips to and from the depot at 25 shillings each way with baggage and first class service. Fare noted as 37 shillings 6 pence.
Ford models and Touring Cars listed with prices 690 for models, 590 for wagons, and 700 for roadsters. All fully equipped with F. O. B. terms. The ad invites readers to visit Strother & Frazer to see how the car climbs hills.
A discussion on how farming progress spreads through example and leadership. A single progressive farmer acts as a contagion, inspiring neighbors and boosting education, county cooperation, and college graduate involvement to lift rural life and solve farm problems.
W S Lloyd offers a half price fifty cent package of Dr Howard's medicine in Mt Sterling to find a worst case of dyspepsia or constipation. The seller guarantees a lasting cure or money back and promises rapid introduction of the treatment. The remedy claims to cure headaches dizziness dyspepsia and liver troubles and to restore appetite digestion and vigor.
In Kentucky, Frank Layman, a burglar and prizefighter who escaped from prison, pleaded his own defense in Franklin Circuit Court the first known instance of a convict acting as his own attorney. The jury found him guilty of escaping, adding one to six years to his current sentence for housebreaking. Charles King, also escaped, was convicted. he claimed he did not know escaping violated a law.
Transfer and carriage wagon offered to meet all trains with contact numbers 21 or 337. Local ad notes new line of staple and fancy groceries at S. E. Kelly & Co. 121f and a testimonial for Dean's Regulats relief of habitual constipation. Includes a quoted student composition on men and women and a grocer testimonial from A. E. Davis of Sulphur Springs Texas.
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