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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1916
Page
6
The author warns that while striving for excellence fuels progress in arts, trades, and professions, there is one industry where unchecked ambition could lead to national disintegration. The piece argues for balanced growth and thoughtful focus to avoid decline.
A rhetorical exhortation urges building character and citizenship beyond mere lawfulness. It critiques settling for average standards and questions readers about their personal goals and the quality of their minds shaping their destinies.
Brunner Shoe Co offers full line of women’s hose priced from 15 cents to 1.50 in a catalog-like promotional note. The line emphasizes value across multiple price points for shoppers seeking affordable hosiery options.
The adage that the Lord will provide is deemed impractical for someone aiming to own a car. The remark frames a skeptical view of relying on divine aid without financial planning or income.
Clippings report a string of small-town vignettes including schemes by Lord Barron to hide money, a break in at a blacksmith shop thwarted by neighbors, and a hunt for a long advertised reward. Sheriff Hanley digs up an old liquor jug amid potato digging, while Dr. J W Smith meets a fifty year old acquaintance.
Fer Kent markets a seven room house on North Syc amore street newly remodeled. Elizabeth Wyatt listed with phone 124.
For sale. Fifty thousand riven tobacco sticks and 500 tier rails listed by Asa Magowan at the Levee in Kentucky.
A sharp-eyed note criticizes sensational reporters for exaggerating border issues and incompetence that never existed, calling out the shift from wild tales to calmer coverage.
A Farmers Bulletin outlines liberal feeding to maximize milk while controlling costs. It notes that heavy producers may lose weight early in lactation and can be fed more liberalily toward the end to regain flesh and later milk yield. Pasture quality and land cost influence grazing systems and required acreage per cow.
The National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis releases What You Should Know About Tuberculosis a guide by experts Dr Charles L. Minor Dr David R. Lyman Dr H R M Landis Dr John H. Lowman and William H. Baldwin. It covers disease nature infection cure prevention and post discharge care and is available free by request from New York or local health authorities. It notes public strain before national strikes and public distress.
One hundred dollar reward offered for catarrh cures Hall's Catarrh Cure claimed to cure by acting on blood and mucous membranes F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio endorsed by Nat Bank of Mince and other signatories with testimonials and price 75 cents per bottle.
The court announces sittings in the matter of Ben W. Hall administrator et al versus Mrs. Eddie Knox Hainline et al. at Mt. Sterling Kentucky beginning Monday September 11 1916 and continuing daily until finished. Creditors must present proven claims against George W. Hainline deceased as required by law for $31.
Frank J Fletcher son of the late Robert Fletcher a Louisville native has moved from Hantey West Virginia where he worked for C and C railroad to become an executive at Louisville based firm Louisville and ene Company with headquarters in Louisville He started as a telegraph operator and through hard work advanced rapidly to a high level of responsibility and a substantial salary.
A reflection on Hetty Green noted as the richest woman by fame, yet acknowledging millions richer, and praising any healthy, cheerful, generous woman as richer in character and happiness.
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