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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1912
Page
7
A reflective piece argues for shorter workdays to improve mental and social life. It notes farmers and families endured long hours, and insists future farm management should balance profits with time for education, play, and community activity. It condemns child labor laws gaps and calls for humane work norms.
Local notice offers sanitary drinking cups for sale to businesses to stay compliant before an inspector visits. Phone 74 provides ordering contact through Advocate Pub.
Local agency Clay McKee and Sons offers real estate sales and rentals, loan services, and investments. The firm markets auto sales through The Warre Motor Car and emphasizes insurance bonds execution for clients.
A college bred farmer leads new moving pictures showing modern farm labor and machinery in July field work. The film contrasts old rustic rites with modern harvest and silage processes, while noting improved roads, education, and rural development fueling a push back to farming prosperity.
A newspaper notice advertises a freckle treatment promising a free trial with money back guarantee. It specifies ethine double strength sold by Wm. Lloyd and claims one night’s use can reveal clearer skin, with rare cases needing more than one ounce.
The Kentucky State Fair will organize twenty departments each presided over by a State Board of Agriculture member and guided by a competent superintendent. Departments include Horses, Beef Cattle, Dairy Cattle, Swine, Sheep and Goats, Poultry, Vegetables, Field Seed, Tobacco, Horticulture, Woman's Department, Farming Implements, Forestry, Students Judging Contest, Education, Dairy Products, Plants and Flowers, Dogs, Racing, and more. The board members and superintendents have begun preparations ahead of the September 9 opening.
A Mt. Sterling Kentucky man testifies to Doan's Kidney Pills aiding a family member with back and kidney pain. The ad promotes Doan's as used and sold locally at Duerson's Drug Store with Foster Milburn Co as sole US agents. The notice ends with a moral quip about marriage and tombstones.
Local carrier offers carriage and transfer wagon to meet all trains. Contact phone numbers 21 or 337. Will Bean listed as operator.
For Rent. Four rooms with water and gas on West Main street. Apply to B. F. Mark. Phone 635-y 50-if. Our equipment is the latest improved, enabling us to do your job printing cheaper than the other fellow. Advocate Publishing Co. Have you tried the B. & C. cakes at 10 15 and 20 cents. It is the best on the market for the money. Try it S. E. Kelly & Co Bring us your country produce We will treat you right S. E. Kelly & Co 12tf
The Kentucky State Fair plans its first all breed bench show during September 9 to 14. Officials aim to attract top dogs from across the nation under American Kennel Club rules with prized awards for diverse classes.
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