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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1916
Page
3
A rough collage of notices and quips from the Advocate for printing. It mentions a thin girl with shifting hips, garden seeds at J B White's, a phone number 246, and Humphries Co with commentary on appearance. The fragments include social observations about church ushers and prize fights.
A speaker touts Rexall Orderlies as the best laxative with a simple health policy. He argues keeping the bowels open is key to preventing illness and claims the product appeals to men, women, and children alike.
A compact old column mixes ad blurbs with aphorisms about cheerfulness and family life. It teases humor with lines about married life and fashion while noting fresh produce at Vanarsdell's. Public notices and moral quips sit alongside playful proverbs.
A call for community leadership urges a energetic man to marshal a town booster effort while a railroad notice promotes C and O and Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern all steel trains from Cincinnati to St. Louis and beyond. The piece highlights daily departures at 9 00 am 12 00 noon 9 15 pm and 2 15 am with electric lighting modern equipment and through connections at St. Louis Union Station.
John D. Greenwade loses a valued mare Ethel McGregor and her foal by Mainleaf 2.0834. The mare, sired by Jay Mc Gregor and out of Baron Wilkes stock, was priced at $1,000. Also notes a local plug for Conroy's harness oil and home merchant support.
House and lot on Harrison avenue featuring seven rooms, a fine stable, good garden and outbuildings. Come and see the place. Contact Humphries at phone 246.
A chestnut stallion named Russian Prince, foaled May 1911, is advertised for a $10 living colt agreement at a barn 1144 miles from Mt Sterling on the Spencer Pike. Sire line traces Bourbon King 1788 to Bourbon Chief 976 and Harrison Chief 1606, Clark Chief 89. Dam includes Amanda Bogie 5095 and Forest Denmark line.
John Black with white points, good bone and head described in a pedigree listing. Sired by premium Jack John from Yel berton Jr. and Old Yelberton lines, with Hopkins' Alvarado and Cunningham's Buena Vista in the lineage, down to Leer's Napoleon and Imported Napoleon.
Wm G Marshall is listed as manager for Mt Sterling Kentucky with contact phone 625.
Federal Forest Products Laboratory Director Howard F. Weiss announced a new method to produce a gasoline substitute from sawdust at 13 to 15 cents per gallon. The process uses alcohol products from wood and distills refuse from Northern Wisconsin and Michigan hemlock and hardwood to near pure form.
A remark notes that many good wives cannot sing play piano or dance well, contrasting virtue with cultural expectations of performance skills.
The phrase suggests perseverance by taking a harder path when shortcuts fail. It frames resilience as a pragmatic approach to reaching goals without obvious shortcuts. No named entities or concrete events are present.
Mainleaf by Mainsheet 2:05 out of Ashleaf Wilkes dam of seven, sired Forrest B. 2:1714 two-year-old 2:13, later sold for 2000 dollars. Bred by Ashland Wilkes line with notable dam line. Claim cites outstanding breeding as extraordinary.
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