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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1911
Page
2
A Pittsburg business man learned his office boy had been delivering stale bakery items from shop windows as lunches. The prank escalated with a petrified gingerbread slab sent back to the dairy lunch man accompanied by a note claiming the asphalt would need a cold chisel and hammer to open.
A playful dialogue unfolds in rhyme as a sentimental suitor begs to stand beside his beloved under the moonlight while she cautiously prompts marriage yet fears the moment may pass. The exchange reads like a lighthearted romantic vignette from a bygone era.
At New York steamship docks a Japanese businessman Kyosuka Iwai misplaced his wallet on the Majestic bound for Liverpool. The wallet held a London draft for 250 dollars and 50 in cash along with his ticket. A messenger boy returned a wallet with a note saying many thanks replacing the cash.
A Mt. Sterling hosted dance last Friday in a new pavilion with Wright's Mt. Sterling orchestra. Attended by many society people from Winchester Mt. Sterling and nearby, the event honored visiting Chi Omega sisters with a four course buffet and late night revelry chaperoned by Mrs Caswell Prewitt.
An old advertisement promotes metal roofing and sheet metal sales with a phone contact 674. It also includes agricultural guidance about corn and alfalfa, stressing preserving crops and feeding value, plus a skin ointment promotion for itching and skin issues.
A New York woman boasts a well groomed stable and asks her coachman what caused the horses to look so sleek. He reveals he has been borrowing the maid’s vacuum cleaner to clean the horses each morning, claiming it does the job well.
Miss Nora Stanton Blatch the first Cornell woman to earn a civil engineering degree is offered a position in one of 86 corps of engineers for immediate China work. She would receive a generous salary with rapid advancement, and she is the first woman member of the American Society of Civil Engineers. She is Harriet Stanton Blatch’s daughter and Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s granddaughter.
The Courier Journal notes the Duchess of Bedford denies knowledge of Col. John Jacob Astor while remarking his balm buying capacity might help him survive the wound. The report hinges on a rumored injury and Astor’s presumed resources amid the scandal.
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