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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1922
Page
8
A calm forecast notes higher prices ahead as winter wheat to fall and exports of cotton, wheat, tobacco, meat rise. Analysts say America must supply global food needs while Russia reorganizes, boosting farm income for six million farmers. Early purchases are advised to avoid higher costs.
Wood G. Dunlap cites historic sites in Bath County Kentucky including the Old Slate Furnace of 1790 built by Jacob Myers on Colonel Owings land, shipping cannon balls via Slate creek to New Orleans. He notes Beaver Furnace Caney Maria Forge Clear Creek and Ashland iron works, prehistoric mounds and hill forts, a mammoth find at Fleming’s Pond, and legends about Louis Philippe visiting Owingsville.
An ad from Barnes & Cox promises fabric cleaning with satisfaction guaranteed and provides telephone contact 343, noting a local service stance and phone-based orders.
A Kentucky educator lauds the legislature's approval of musical education, praising a perfect test in Montgomery County High School and urging broader study of music theory, history, and pronunciation of masters while lauding Kentucky’s musicians and Edna South.
A quotation praising music as a great treasure for the state and its children, attributed to Mrs. S. F. Hamilton, Supervisor of Music at Montgomery County High School. The statement highlights music education as a key to unlocking cultural wealth for future generations.
Owingsville notes report the Wo man’s Club junior department held its first meeting at president Miss Leona Palmer’s home on Saturday afternoon. Program included roll call facts about Hawaii, piano solos by Alma Thompson and Mae Shrout, Hawaiian customs by Madge Shrout, and a feature on the islands’ national beauties by Lucille Vice.
Ed Thompson visited Mt Sterling on Sunday while others from the area attend a K E A meeting in Louisville this week. Imogene Crooks also appeared in Mt Sterling Sunday and Charles Harbeson of Fremingsburg was here Monday. J M Richards returns from Martinsville Indiana after a two week stay. Witty ad lines promote Barnes Cox laundry and Chinese Laundry with a local motto.
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