Local notices and paras from Montgomery county flora
Correspondence notes farmers buying calves and corn for $20 to $30 per calf and $3.00 per barrel. Visits by locals to Owensboro Fleming and Martinsville. Community events include church ice cream supper August 21 and Somerset meetings. A local ball game Stoops 8 Mt Sterling 6 with Dunnavent three-base hit and home run by Crockett.
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Clarence Sanders
Fleming County
Stoops
Mt. Sterling
Dunnavent
Crockett
Willoughby
Richards
Still
Hamilton sells cow and calf for fifty five dollars
Crockett T. B. Hamilton sold a cow and calf Monday to John Keesling for $55.00. Get Tobacco Pants and Rubber Boots at Walsh's. Fresh new goods just in. If Germany can mobilize millions for war, why cannot the United States increase our yield with no war to double national wealth.
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Crockett
T. B. Hamilton
John Keesling
Walsh’s
Germany
United States
Residence for Sale Baptist Parsonage on West High Street
Brick residence known as the Baptist parsonage occupied by Rev. J. B. Wilson on West High Street for sale. In thorough repair and desirable. contact W. A. Sutton or W. T. Tyler. The Advocate notes delays in subscription dollars due.
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Baptist Parsonage
West High Street
J. 8. Wilson
W. A. Sutton
W. T. Tyler
Front-Line Anecdotes on Courage and Shrapnel Idiosyncrasies
Excerpts from correspondents recount remarkable scenes from wartime fronts. A wounded trooper’s pride in a shrapnel mark, a 12-inch shell destroying two Hartlepool houses, and a British signalman’s near-miss aboard the Emden illustrate how artifacts and odds shape soldiers’ beliefs. The piece argues the soldier’s creed as a living compass beyond sterile sentiment.
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France
Williams
Williamson
Hartlepool
London Globe
Bible Reading Tale Highlights Care Through Scripture
Rev W Y Fullerton of the Baptist Missionary society recounted a Bible reading anecdote at the International Bible Reading Association anniversary. A man told how he read Proverbs to comfort his sick wife and she died after he finished the book.
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W. Y. Fullerton
Baptist Missionary Society
International Bible Reading Association
Fullerton
Westminster Gazette
Wild Kurd Girl Becomes Russian Regiment Mascot
Six year old Kurdish girl Hadzhina found by Russian soldiers on the Persian frontier is adopted as mascot for an artillery regiment. She was living in an Armenian village bake oven when found after her mother fled with another child. her father reportedly a captured soldier.
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Hadzhina
Hazar
Ma and Pa Lessons on Overdrawn Bank Account
A humorous dialogue from the Atlanta Constitution features a father explaining to his mother that she has written checks totaling 63 dollars more than the bank balance. The mother muses that if 63 dollars could break a bank, she would switch banks, imagining banks always had vast funds on hand.
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Atlanta Constitution
For Rent Three Rooms Downstairs at 11 Harrison Ave
Classified note says a tenant seeks a downstairs three room unit at 11 Harrison Avenue. Housekeeping service available. Contact details not provided.
Visiting Hallsville Pioneer Praises Kentucky Hospitality
Mr. John C. Coons of Hallsville Missouri, aged 79, visiting Mt. Sterling relatives for months, calls at our office. He has lived in Mt. Sterling over fifty years and credits temperate life for excellent health. He plans to write articles on the West upon returning home.
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John C. Coons
Hallsville
Coons
Mt. Sterling
Kentucky
Missouri
West
Local Town Delights Promote Home Dealer Support
A brief note urges residents to spend money with the home dealer to foster a better, more prosperous and livable town, mentioning jars and caps at night at Vanarsdells as part of the scene. The message emphasizes community pride and self-reliance.
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Vanarsdells
Blood Spillery Speedway Planned in Louisville
A Frankfort State Journal report mocks a proposed $250 000 Louisville motor speedway calling it a blood spillery that would thrill spectators with bloody battles and fatal wrecks, predicting mangled bodies and lost lives as a grim crowd draw.
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Louisville
Spain
Mexico
Frankfort
Beach fashion irony as stockings fall from use
The piece notes feminine bathers discarding stockings as superfluous and unsanitary at summer beaches. It hints at a forward gaze toward next season with mock exclamations and a series of ahems.
A Recipient of Hard Knocks
A back-and-forth exchange questions life as a give and take game. One speaker replies that life is about taking more than giving, illustrating a stoic view on burden and reciprocity.
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MR. Louis Wagoner
Hamburger Bros. and Company
Tailors of
Baltimore
Will
The
Walsh Company
B. M. Goodan
Lee Young and Wife
Owingsville
H. V. McChesney
Montgomery County
Hunt
Earl Reid
W. P. Walton
John O. Crouch
Webo
Montana
R. H. Stockdale
Judy
Martinsville
Ind
Mesdames C. B
James C. Borett
Sharpsburg
Clell Foley
Lela May
Somerset
Sherman Hamilton
Good Samaritan Hospital
Lexington
Ladies of Springfield Church
J. E. Roberson
J. T. Roberson
Walter Hamilton
Clark County
Will Hamilton
Opal
Alfred Moore
the Advocate For Printing
Edison
Victor Columbia
Bryan & Robinson Jewelers
Prewitt and
Grassy Lick Pike
Mt. Sterling, Ky
Court House
ivaVil Vue
Montgomery Circuit Court
Richard Conner
H. R. Prewitt
Sterling
Winchester
Zack Conner
Harrison Ave
Gum Boots
Walsh
J. H. Keller Dry Goods
Main St
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