Interest in big race grows with mammoth auto campaign
The Sterling Advocate promotes a large prize campaign offering a Ford Touring Car and a $150,000 Library Suite as grand prizes. Nominations rise while some drop out, and new candidates are urged to enter. Votes are earned by clipping coupons, subscriptions, and renewals, with triple votes available before May 14th for old and new subs.
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Care Advocate
Mt. Sterling
Kentucky
Eare
Advocate
Mt. Sterling. Ky
Death of William R Nunnelly marked by sorrow
William R Nunnelly died suddenly of heart failure while visiting his daughter in Shepherdsville Kentucky. A former prominent clothing merchant and longtime resident, he was a deacon at the local Baptist church and is survived by his wife and two children, I C Smith and Lieut B G Nunnelly. His remains were brought to the city for burial at Machpelah cemetery after services at the grave.
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William R. Nunnelly
Shepherdsville
Nunnelly
Louisville
Florida
Michigan
I. C. Smith
Lieut
B. G. Nunnelly
United States Army
Machpelah
King Laughlin
Hazelwood
St. Thomas
Laughlin
Frank C. Laughlin
Richard D. Gaitskill
Winchester Pike
Gaitskill
Tie
Middletown
Bourbon County
Elkin
Mattie
Elizabeth
C. C. Schooler
M. V. P. Yeaman
Advocate
N.S. S
Fort Thomas
Go To Sunday School Sunday Encourages Attendance
Sunday School Sunday is set for May 4th as an annual push for every citizen to attend a local Sunday school. The community is urged to treat it as a duty and strive to make the event the banner one in the history of local Sunday schools. Relatives here have been notified of Sergeant Seth Botts arrival Somewhere in France. Mt Mount Sterling boys serve on French soil as a growing colony. An upright Decker Brothers piano is offered for sale by Florence McNamara. Chick feed sold at Vanarsdell's.
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Seth Botts
France
Mt. Sterling
Decker Brothers
Florence McNamara
Vanarsdell’s
Twenty One Men Off For The Army This Week
Montgomery county sends twenty one more of its worthy sons to the army this week. Fifteen departed this afternoon under Mr. H C Wood for Camp Zachary Taylor with names including Stanley Wood Morrison Cox Lewis A Glover Harry Crooks and others. A crowd at the depot bade farewell and the Red Cross gave comfort kits. Six more men ordered to report Thursday will leave on the 11 34 train for Fort Thomas: Elliott Shoemaker Richard Daniel Frank Prather Vernon Slolley John L Prewitt and Robert J Coyle.
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Montgomery County
8. C. Wood
Zachary Taylor
Stanley O. Wood
Morrison Cox
Lewis A. Glover
Harry Crooks
Joe H. Keller
Chandler Fizer
Irwin Jackson
Thomas Green
Orville Clark
Granville Elam
Arthur J. Haydon
James Busby
William Bradley Coke
John Kelly Wigginton
Lewis Killpatrick
Red Cross
Fort Thomas
Elliott Shoemaker
Richard Daniel
Frank Prather
Vernon Slolley
John L. Prewitt
Robert J. Coyle
Local men form Big Bird Oil Company
A large advertisement lists John G. Winn J A Judy and Charles W Kirkpatrick among organizers. It proclaims the venture honest not a stock jobbing scheme and notes no salaries for officers. The ad urges careful reading and mentions Robert Trimble Jr entering U S government service.
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Big Bird Oil Company
John G. Winn
J. A. Judy
Charles W. Kirkpatrick
Liberty Loan drive boosts Montgomery County pledge
Montgomery County reports its Third Liberty Loan subscription of 223100 dollars and urges continued individual contributions. Chairman John G. Winn asks residents to exceed quota and support troops, with Y M C A worker C W Whitehair invoking sacrifice. The piece notes a citizen death and a draft notice from Bourbon County.
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Montgomery County
John G. Winn
C. W. Whitehair
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Mammoth Auto and Gift Enterprise
Montgomery
W. R. Nunnelly
R. D
Mt. Sterling Advocate
Organize Oil Company
Robert Trimble, Jr
Washington
United States
Governor’s Island
Trimble
R. BE. Punch & CO
the Advocate For Printing
Baer
L. N. Barnes
Bourbon County Draft Board
Paris
Port Thomas
Ilis
Mt. Sterling Advocate Automobile
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