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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1919
Page
7
A garbled paragraph notes a mail carrier's long day and a claim about reading special cards. It mentions an Eastern surgeon operating on a man for appendicitis and finding no appendix, and a remark about a man with a bank account. The text mixes misstatements and fragmented events without clear context.
A merchant boasts about a great advertisement on a railroad station wall. His friend admits they cannot see it, jokingly suggesting to send the wall around. The exchange captures a humorous street scene and the era’s advertising quirks.
Will Bybee, an elderly Black resident of the city, died last week at the Asylum for the Insane in Lexington. His body was brought back and laid to rest in Olive Hill Cemetery. Also noted are items on Mrs. Greene's Famous Home made Candy available at Land & Priest's and a local sharp remark about a neighbor’s marital gaze.
A reflection on Jess Willard’s film and the idea that triumph can come easily. The piece notes the film’s themes of glory and humility as audiences watch a race horse’s victory contrasted with a simple walk to success.
The column covers illness in Mrs. George Richardson, visits of Cortland and Lancaster residents, tobacco market notes, and forthcoming Kentucky legislative events. It mentions the Headley Tobacco Warehouse Company and local social events, with brief items on residents moving, visiting, and Thanksgiving activities.
On December 15 1919 at 1 PM agent for Lester W Lee offers the Cave Gaitskill place a 108 acre tobacco friendly farm near Sideview Montgomery County on the Paris pike. Improvements include a 5 room cottage, outbuildings, tobacco barn and stock facilities. Farm well watered with springs and pond good fencing bluegrass and wheat sod land. Sale at the courthouse door Mt Sterling Ky unless sold privately earlier.
Mrs O M Knight and Edith visited Maysville then Cincinnati with Mr Knight joining Sunday. Edith Wood spends Thanksgiving with parents in Millersburg. Frank Allen Sr and Jr Omar Botts and Mr Stone toured Nelson county farms last week. Allen bought two Bloomfield farms one for himself and one for Mrs Ratliff. Omar Botts and Mrs Botts plan to move to Ratliff’s farm early next year. Miss Kathryn Bailey at Bagdad with locals Crockett Taylor Ratliff Dotson and others.
R. L. Stuart as agent sold a 11334 acre farm in Bath county near Preston for 90 dollars per acre to a buyer named Mrs. Greene’s Famous Home-made. The transaction was handled through the Lane agency and confirms the country land market activity.
A brief exhortation urged readers to avoid overburdening allies and to remember the man who stands up for them soon tires and may fall. It emphasizes support and endurance in mutual aid.
Surgeons offer appointments in multiple daily blocks 8 9 A.M. 1 2 P.M. 5 6 P.M. 7 8 P.M. at Traders National Bank Building 22 81. Office near Geiger's Pharmacy hours 9 to 12 and 1 to 5 with phone numbers 247 office and 249 residence.
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