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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1915
Page
3
The passage notes Andrew Carnegie has given away 350 million dollars and now reportedly has about 60 million left. It compares spending on hats to naval costs and quips about campaign speakers using woods for fuel in winter.
Quip notes some men habitually rest on laurels or keep dozing even without them, poking fun at complacency and constant rest without achievement.
A compact fragment of a town newspaper page highlights shopping promos from Vanarsdell's and Greenwade's with holiday bargains, new goods, and seasonal foods. It notes World War mentions are scarce, hints at prosperity rhetoric, and teases local promotions including meats, canned fruits, and nuts.
The piece blasts Henry Ford’s Europe peace mission as a publicity stunt doomed from the start. It argues wireless messages to trenches cannot reach troops lacking reception and warns Americans that the effort would embroil the nation in foreign trouble. It ridicules Ford while predicting European ridicule and urges him to return to Detroit.
Prosperity grows as factories resume full operations and dormant industries restart. Labor is in demand, and gold from abroad pours in, signaling a nationwide upturn. The era following depression is expected to yield the strongest prosperity yet in 1916.
The Harrison County Fiscal Court allocated 800 dollars, matched by the USDA, to hire a farm demonstrator to reside in the county. The demonstrator will perform demonstration work on local farms as directed by farmer and magistrate committees.
A terse notice states transferring by J. W. Baber with a contact phone 840. The fragment remarks that a man may be lazy yet still a fellow, indicating unclear context for the transfer notice.
An office advertisement notes a practice operating at the Masonic Temple building with an address in the former Hamilton space. It lists telephone numbers for office 697 and residence 510 and emphasizes first class work and guarantee.
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