Sign in garage clocking speed with cuckoo bird
A garage sign offers a novelty cuckoo clock for cars. It features a bird that emerges and sings Nearer My God to Thee when the speedometer hits 20 miles an hour.
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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1920
Page
4
A garage sign offers a novelty cuckoo clock for cars. It features a bird that emerges and sings Nearer My God to Thee when the speedometer hits 20 miles an hour.
In Eastern Kentucky sorghum, once the main tax revenue before coal and oil, rose from 43 barrels in 1916 to about 2,000 in 1919 and an estimated 3,000 to 3,500 barrels this year. Prices hovered around 70 to 80 cents per gallon as 56 new mills were added at cost, boosting yield by roughly 40 percent.
Bring your turkeys to us for the Christmas Market. We will buy them and pay the top prices. EE. T. Reis, phone 645.
Week sees heavy poultry movement with surplus stored amid lower prices in big markets. Fresh egg production remains light with high prices, while butterfat prices decline due to continued selling pressure. Overall butter output slightly higher than a year ago.
Advertisement from G. D. Sullivan & Co seeking top prices for turkeys for the Christmas trade. The fragment also includes a quip about marriage and home ownership.
The speaker questions banning production and sale of clothes, contrasting it with women's strong devotion to fashion and alcohol. The remark provocatively questions gendered priorities in moral campaigns and consumer culture.
A garage holds a varied collection of cars in different sizes with all attachments needed to complete each vehicle. The assortment suggests a working site or supply hub for vehicle repair and outfitting activities.
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