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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1919
Page
8
Mrs. V Oma Grace Oliver notes a split in teacher training students’ exposure to farms and urges agricultural education. She praises school gardens as a solution, citing 1918 as an era when five million plots were planted and describing children's excitement at watching seed germination and plant growth.
The seventeenth annual Kentucky State Fair in Louisville offers a total $110,000 in prizes for livestock and agricultural exhibits with $40,000 allotted to beef cattle and fattening classes. Leading brokers and multiple carloads of steers and heifers will be auctioned during fair week, with world class entrants expected to dominate the cattle show and a Kentucky futurity offering $3,000 in breed prizes.
Miss Josephine Erwin and Mr Reether of Lexington visit Mr and Mrs E Erwin before Miss Erwin heads to Atlanta to work for Chamberland and Johnson. Several locals attended the Natural Bridge picnic Friday.
Mrs. Emily Shaw testifies that RAT-SNAP outperforms other traps. She bought a 50 cent box after a husband spent two dollars on a trap, and asserts the product killed 12 rats in a week though the trap caught 3. RAT-SNAP comes in cakes in three sizes: 25c 50c and 1.00. Sold by Chenault & Orear.
William Mather Lewis, director of the Treasury Savings Division, urges six million thrift and war stamp savers to curb waste through prudent buying. He warns that no solution to high living costs will come unless Americans curb luxuries and change spending habits now. He blames consumers for rising prices of necessities due to lavish spending.
A Kentucky jewelry ad touts 50 cent on the dollar savings at Joe Rosenberg established 1896 with bargains on Plein and Waltham watches at 141 Water Street near Lexington. Massachusetts reports claim Sunday golf banned by law, while a warden accuses H C L of invading the Maryland penitentiary in a tossed sentence about authority and sport.
Official returns show Governor Black with a 21457 vote majority over Judge Carroll in the recent primary, securing the party’s nomination outcome.
The Booster Club of the Elizaville Presbyterian church in Fleming county with 43 members spent Friday at Olympian Springs and inscribed a toast on the register praising Olympia Springs as a source of joy and happiness to noble Kentuckians.
Guards assigned around the 8 P Fetter home in Ashland after a threatening letter demanding 10 000 dollars arrived shot and killed a man who reportedly ignored their warning. The Advocate notes the incident reported for printing.
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