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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1922
Page
2
A local craftsman renovates a worn straw hat, applying dye to restore color and luster. The process highlights careful cleaning, dyeing, and sealing to extend the hat’s life while preserving its vintage look.
Rosslyn Vina Benningfield and Winchester visitors Misses Mattie and Manda Skidmore are here to visit relatives. Area residents attend church. Rev Nelson preached. Mrs J M Conlee remains critical with medical staff summoned. Farmers busy planting corn as community notes close.
Fiost Sunday brings light damage to fruit with grapes hardest hit. Bloom thick. thinning advised as farmers await warmer weather to tackle cutworms. W F Wilson and son sell fourteen 700 pound cattle to Roy Moss at 7 to 7 1/4 cents. Horton rents forty acres grass for 239 dollars to M C Wilson. Greenbriar stock farm trains a two year old brown trotting filly by Peter Montgomery. Mrs Nettie Welch visits her Colorado-based kin, Rev John Ware critically ill at home. Mrs Le Rose able to be out after illness. Mrs Hisle of Indian Fields visits William Ecton and family.
William Dudley Foulke, acting president of the national civil service reform league, calls for a Washington conference to protect the merit system from Republican spoilsmen. Administration officials and Republican congressmen plan replies to league charges. John H. Bartlett seeks to testify at the meeting.
In his later years George Washington wrote in his diary that mosquitoes in upstate New Jersey had bitten through his leather boots, a vivid image of colonial discomfort amid field duties and travel.
An unidentified contemplation notes a restless night followed by a calmer day, exploring how impulsive actions give way to deliberate thinking. The piece contrasts mood shifts and suggests time yields clearer judgment.
After eleven years in Lexington we offer cutting and fitting from pure wool fabrics at the lowest prices, delivering perfect fits with quality workmanship. See our goods and styles, and experience Central Kentucky's best tailor trade.
Testimony alleges a film star flirted with her husband and violated union rules by not using a custard pig. This conduct is cited as the probable ground for the divorce petition.
A quirky note contrasts slang for father and old car as a boy's speech reveals changing language and attitudes toward family and technology in a light historical column.
Several residents joined a ball game at the Levee Sunday. Visits included Harburg Taul with Sam Stone near Little Rock, Lida Lou and Margaret Crouch with Mrs. N. H. Fletcher, and Clint Williams with Boone Williams near Paris. Others include Dudley Crouch visiting John M. Crouch, Otto Markland with Clarence Steele, Sam Ishmael with his ill father, and Troy May hosting E H May E H Crouch Robert Odders and Bobbie Lane near Sharpsburg.
Adjutant General Jackson Morris and Henry T. Stites on a Barbourville to Somerset tour found many disabled veterans who missed relief or had incomplete applications. They plan stops in Tompkinsville, Burkesville, Albany, Monticello, Stearns, Somerset through May 6, while some congressmen push for a bonus and others oppose it for political gain.
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