Regret and Rush into New Follies
A reflective note on how people regret past errors yet eagerly repeat them in new acts. It adds a quip about lawyers and witnesses in court and ends with an advertisement for flower seeds at Vanarsdell's.
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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1920
Page
10
A reflective note on how people regret past errors yet eagerly repeat them in new acts. It adds a quip about lawyers and witnesses in court and ends with an advertisement for flower seeds at Vanarsdell's.
Dr Valentine Mort discusses spring fever tied to blood stagnation and winter toxins. Recommends Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a tonic and blood purifier sold in tablet or liquid form. Endorsed by J. B. Hughes of Alton Park Tennessee who praises its effects on digestion and liver cleansing.
A county audience urges voters to review tax receipts before the fall election condemning the Morrow administration and Republican pledge of economy amid higher taxes and stalled office abolitions. It argues private gifts fund roads, inviting Montgomery taxpayers to join for 31 miles of permanent state roads and ends with a domestic analogy about a wife and husband habits.
Mack riffs on city issues and social quirks. He notes street paving delays from material shortages and cites deplorable sidewalks. Jabs at theater rules, aging, fashion, and rent gouging mix with humorous vignettes about villagers and landlords.
Frank V. Evans former mayor of Birmingham Alabama ex State examiner of public accounts and once editor of the Birmingham Age-Herald writes from Birmingham February 2 praising Tanlac after relief from gastritis constipation and related pains He reports improving rapidly after starting Tanlac and plans to continue treatment He notes he is not given to puffing medicines and recommends the remedy to others Sold in Mt Sterling by Land and Priest.
A reading on southern progress highlights cotton yields shrinking to a fifth, dense manufacturing, growing oil wealth, and a surge of prosperity from Virginia to Texas. The region emerges as America’s greatest undeveloped asset becoming its most developed, supplying most of the nation’s sulphur and expanding markets for luxury and industry.
Terms cash war propels the South as a vast store of cotton oil and minerals vital to industry. Manufacturers Record urges businessmen to study the region for national growth, noting latent wealth and potential for progress. Patriotism earns credit, but imagination is the common disease of women.
A brief catalogue itemizes possessions and shares including a Winchester Shotgun, Wilson Gas Heaters, an iron bed, a Spring 1 8 shares Bath Telephone Company stock, Longview Cemetery stock, Holiness Camp Meeting Association, an Oldsmobile 1917 model, and related holdings.
P S Buchannon of the Norfolk and Western Railway reports feeling thirty years younger after a single bottle of Reese Formula R-11. He credits improved stomach and general health from the medicine purchased at Goodykoontz Drug Store and urges others with flu related weakness to try it.
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