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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1919
Page
6
The piece extols domestic scenery over overseas trips and notes 810634 visitors to national parks and monuments this year. It highlights 95140 auto tours through parks, with travelers free to explore at their own pace and many campsites use.
The Nationwide Campaign of the Episcopal Church is described by Bishop Charles Palmerston Anderson of Chicago as a constructive force to stabilize wartime chaos. The campaign starts December 7 in Chicago, with a focus on education, awakening spiritual conviction, and unifying the church and its work.
The address stresses church opportunities and needs across all classes and declares the church lies between capitalists and socialists. The parish quota is $311.81 allocated to General budget $238.65 Margaret College $63.42 and clerical salary increases $9.68.
A brief item notes Mrs Greene's Famous Home-made Candy on sale at Land and Priest. The piece closes with a wry line about a husband unable to find anything else yet never short of fault.
Grover C. Anderson and L. Beall Hadden sold their walking horses to L. E. Lennin of Havana Cuba for 300 dollars each. A New Jersey woman shot at a chicken and hit her mother in law, apparently mistaking it for a complaint. Milk wagon drivers in New York plan a ten dollar daily strike to push up milk costs, which customers embrace as higher prices are welcomed.
The text contrasts the boastful bluffer who touts prosperity with the mockingbird that remains confident in its song. It laments self deception and procrastination while noting common foibles about lazy effort and gullible pride. The Advocate for printing comments on such observations.
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