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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1920
Page
8
Classified ads show items for sale including a baby buggy runabout and furniture bargains. Real estate offers include farms and city properties with Cravens Turpin and neighbors listed. services offer buggy wagons saddles harness plumbing and tires plus rental rooms and lost item notice for J E Rolph initials.
A pie supper and old fashioned spelling battle are planned at Lower Spencer School House on Friday night September 3. A prize will honor the best speller and all are invited for a royal time.
An advertiser urges parents to have their children’s shoes repaired before school starts. Walter M. Riessinger offers repairs and promotes cost efficiency by extending shoe life, noting it saves money compared to buying new.
For the next ten days J. E. Freeland at the Bank and Locust Streets corner offers a special price on rubber tires. The deal emphasizes a limited period sale and highlights the retailer's location and dates.
A fashion note on fall attire for women contrasts executive claims of leadership with domestic reality. The piece suggests style guidance aligned with Milady and hints at the social expectations of married life without detailing specific designs.
The Advocate Publishing Co. advertises a well equipped job printing establishment and affordable prices for commercial stationery and light forms for a limited time. It urges readers to check stock and order a year’s supply now.
Advocate Publishing Co. advertises two large trees available for fuel this winter with hauling provided. Coal prices are high, so customers should act quickly to take advantage of the opportunity. Contact phone 74 for details.
A concise remark notes that a woman and a phonograph can always speak for themselves, emphasizing self-advocacy and the enduring ability to express one’s voice.
Andrew E. Durham and his wife of Greencastle Indiana traveled by car to Perryville Kentucky to visit distant relatives and explore Mr. Durham ancestry. They camped several days near Bridgeforth Farm once owned by Elizabeth Black then moved on to stay on the Bridgeforth property before returning to Indiana while praising Kentucky scenery.
On arrival in Rio de Janeiro the Dryden detains a crewman named Morris Fox who is linked to the Detroit murder case of Mrs. Katharine Lou Jackson. He denies knowledge of the crime and says he goes by Toronto. Authorities plan to seek extradition after reaching Buenos Aires.
A reflection on age and conduct suggests elderly men act more properly because they have learned good behavior yields tangible rewards.
A considerate daughter avoids burdening her mother with all chores by hiring out tasks she can’t handle herself. The arrangement eases the mother's workload and reflects shared responsibility within the family.
Sebastian Conrad Gruber a 35 year old Louisville butcher died Wednesday afternoon from a base skull fracture. Detectives say foul play is likely after a post mortem by Coroner Roy L. Carter. Gruber was carried from the kitchen alley by five men and left unconscious on his porch before being found dead ten hours later.
I N Phipps of Kansas formerly of this city reached the Powell county oil fields Tuesday where a 15 barrel well was brought in on Saturday.
The speaker notes that times have shifted and villains now wield automatic pistols instead of daggers. A man who insists on going to hell should hurry to spare friends prolonged distress, yet he continues to call his behavior Good Judgment despite repeated bad outcomes.
Fragmentary line from an old column praising love as a force for youths, mothers, and elders. The text reads as a poetic aphorism with no clear event or dates to anchor a broader news item.
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