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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1917
Page
6
Practical step by step method for canning corn including blanching, packing hot jars, adding salt, sealing jars, and processing in boiling water. Stresses team work for best results and cautions about avoiding drafts and cracking jars during cooling.
A tense exchange unfolds between B-4 and After teams in a pursuit for money. The staged confrontation centers on a high stakes plan and rapid, cautious moves as authorities close in.
The Council of National Defense authorizes a survey of eye ear and throat surgeons to learn willingness to join military medical service if called. Committees report enough candidates to meet Surgeon General needs and propose head surgery sections in base hospitals. Major Lyster assigned to study the program.
Clippings recount a large audience at a Plunkville Patriot rally praising the United States and work ethic. The item notes a jailer may open doors as nights grow hot, a booklet on courting, a controversial editorial torn, a rabbit sighting, Emma Allen singing, J F Cross assisting, an acrobat act, and a pistol fight injuring Ralph Lynch’s glasses, with light local color throughout.
James R. Garfield, former Secretary of the Interior, is named Red Cross director for Ohio, Indiana and most of Kentucky with headquarters in Cleveland. The appointment is made by Henry P. Davison, chairman of the Red Cross war council.
Benny points to Elijah’s halo and jokes about an extra tire. The remark blends a biblical scene with a light dig at China briefly forgetting a ruler change last week.
Do You Know Her Name prompt offers a weekly pass to the first three correct guesses. Blanche Sweet stars Monday Aug. 13 in The Silent Partner, a Jesse L. Lasky drama of business life with Meighan Joy Van Buren Slebert Smythe. Mae Murray appears Aug. 8 in The Primrose Ring with Elfish whimsy.
The Foreign Relations Committee debated measures to authorize drafting aliens. The McCumber resolution would let the government negotiate with allied governments to obtain permission to draft their citizens. Senators argued for swift action, with Lodge predicting a week suffices and Chamberlain insisting Congress can act now. The issue paused as the morning hour ended, with Stone promising to reintroduce when possible.
A column urges readers to carry kindness and confident speech as a better introduction. It argues that misunderstandings fuel enmities but sunshine of the heart dissolves them and lists how thoughts affect body functions like digestion, brain function, and sleep, praising hopeful thoughts for longevity and wellbeing.
The piece argues that physical and mental health cannot be separated and that worry breeds chaos while mirth clears mental fog. It notes that workers who enjoy their tasks perform at twice the effective rate.
Mrs. William L. Osborne of Wilmette near Chicago has received notice of her appointment as Ensign in the United States Navy. She is one of two women holding such commissions and has long aided at the Great Lakes naval training station, with bluejackets largely soliciting the appointment.
A Siwash Indian may eat snakes but does not vote for the Prohibition ticket and avoids corn liquor masquerading as Patent Medicine.
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