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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1918
Page
6
Construction has begun on the Mt. Sterling Tobacco Redrying and Storage Company plant, a large facility planned to handle up to 10,000,000 pounds per season. The 110 by 220 foot main building will house $30,000 in machinery and boost local tobacco prices as the J. P. Taylor Company leases the property.
Reports from South Carolina markets show strong demand for all tobacco cuts with prices eight to ten cents higher per pound. Purchases run heavy and the Carolina market nears completion as North Carolina begins August 15. Burley is expected to average around 36 cents per pound with potential gains to 50 or 75 cents for exceptional crops. Weather droughts delay some crops, hail damaged fields, and speculators hold back with few field sales.
A retrospective on the Red Cross's growth from wartime funding to a vast volunteer movement. It credits 22 million members and major war funds, noting the shift from a fundraising symbol to a national spirit of service. It frames membership as the outward form of an inward civic urge in American character.
The War Department plans to enlist able bodied college students over eighteen for military service and college training to prepare them as officers engineers chemists doctors and administrators. The program aims to delay active enlistment, keep trained personnel in reserve until draft age, and mobilize brain power to support the war and postwar needs. A State Council of Defense will organize a nationwide campaign to inform students and parents that qualified youths can serve their country and themselves by attending college.
Herbert Hoover, in London, says allies will not lose the war from food shortages and asserts no danger from lack of men or ships. The wartime quip contrasts Kaiserism’s decline with a grim moral note about trust and experience.
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