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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1915
Page
7
An editorial urges local merchants to out advertise big mail order houses. It argues customers trade where they gain confidence and money, urging systematic, frequent, well crafted ads in the home paper to reclaim trade and remind readers that home is best. It ends inviting a chat to craft copy.
The Bluegrass Clipper laments the primary results and admits surprise at McChesney's poor showing. The editorial asserts moral satisfaction in backing the right side, even if not the winning one.
A reflective maxim urges welcoming happiness while warning against guards of gloom. It favors a cheerful approach, noting frowning down happiness is easy but unhelpful.
Kentucky State Fair hosts Farm Boys Encampment with contestants from 120 counties. Eligibility now requires membership in a county Boys Corn or Pig Club and growing one acre of corn or raising one pig, with cost records. Participants aged 10 to 18. counties must enter at least 15 members. state agents coordinate clubs and instructions.
A Woman's Shop will open at the Kentucky State Fair in Louisville September 13 to 18 as a salesroom for articles handmade by women. Entries are free of charge, not in competition, and returned if unsold. Kentucky residents only.
The thirteenth Kentucky State Fair hosts top trotting and pacing horses September 13 to 18 with 140 entries, a record. Stars include Hugh Miller, Ham Patterson, Ophelia, Joe H, and Bonnie Boy, plus two two and three year old colt trot trials with $500 purses. The event follows National Trotting Association rules.
A moral urging to generosity and kindness regardless of wealth. The piece emphasizes doing small good deeds with present resources, noting charity comes from the heart, not a full purse, and urges readers to act kindly in daily life now.
The Louisville primary proceeded with order and quiet though irregularities were noted. Judge Samuel W. Greene of Jefferson County’s Criminal Court is credited for upholding duty and ensuring proper handling of potential violations without altering the overall result.
Morton Carpenter and his family, long residents of Platte county Missouri, have returned to this county to establish their future home. They were warmly welcomed by local friends and relatives, resuming ties to the community.
A wry note on diplomacy and perception contrasts. The speaker highlights a gifted diplomat who flatters two women without causing jealousy, then muses on the gap between belief and knowledge.
The mayor of Prestonsburg Kentucky testifies to a cure for rheumatism and kidney trouble after using White Eagle's Blood Purifier and Rattlesnake Oil Liniment. Cordelia Aspberry of Campton reports a miraculous cure with White Eagle's Herbs and Rattlesnake Oil Liniment. The ad promotes 50 cent oil and $1 herbs, sold by F C Duerson in Mt Sterling Kentucky.
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