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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1921
Page
9
Incorporated Mt Sterling Advocate notes publication Tuesdays and Thursdays with J W Hedden as editor and J W Hedden Jr as associate editor and business manager. Mary C Ayres is local news editor. Subscription is two dollars per year and requires payment with order.
An appreciative audience enjoyed the Al G Field Minstrels Wednesday evening. The show featured strong singing and music, beautiful dress and scenery, and witty humor, praised as a refreshing rest for working people. Mr. Small is commended for presenting such quality entertainment.
Crowded Shelbyville Baptist church honors new pastor Rev R C Goldsmith as attendance swells from 90 to 350 in Sunday School. Congratulations also reach his former Mt Sterling pastorate amid the busy revival.
Poultry expert J. R. Smyth urges Kentucky farmers to fatten hens, cockerels, and turkeys for the holiday market. Confine birds in a crate or small pen, starve briefly, then feed twice daily, tapering to three meals. Use wet mash of corn meal and sour milk with specific rations, aiming for rapid gains and plump birds.
A poetic Christmas hymn fragment envisions angels, stars, and a world at peace. It urges joyful singing for Jesus birth, unity, and the fading darkness as dawn rises with hopeful praise to God. The piece names scattered phrases and garbled names like John, Abe, and Whitser, reflecting a damaged text.
In a bleak town on Christmas morning 1931, elderly Hiram Palmer awaits gifts he never receives. His relatives dismiss him as too old, having cut him from their lists, while he remains generous to hospitals and the needy, clinging to memory and faith in small courtesies.
Community updates from Camargo and vicinity cover sermons by Rev. Thompson of Mt. Sterling and a presiding elder visit, school plays and a Christmas tree event at Camargo school, and local gatherings. Readers note sick lists, visits, market activity in hogs and hay, and a moonshine raid mention.
The line offers guidance on how to treat others with forgiveness for enemies, tolerance for opponents, and respect for all. It extends to family, calling for exemplary conduct to make a parent proud and to cultivate charity, self-respect, and deference for others.
Instructions describe cutting unbleached muslin larger than the linening board by about four inches all around. Edge with crochet and fasten, then lay over the board and lace with a stout card or tape at every fourth loop. The cover is removable for easy handling.
A short verse stresses that not everyone is handsome or good, but choosing to smile and be pleasant helps raise spirits. It notes patience is hard, cheerfulness is harder, yet kindness pays and spreads as good humor is contagious even when one feels blue. Exchange.
A suggestion to give a year's subscription to The Advocate as a thoughtful gift. For $1.50, the subscription is promoted as a reliable way to send the leading home-town paper to friends or relatives away from home, with confidence it will be well received.
A fragment notes a bride failing to bake biscuits like her mother and laments her husband not earning money as quickly as his father did, reflecting domestic and economic pressures in a bygone era.
An advertisement notes 50 pound cans of Partridge lard priced at five dollars and fifty cents each. It lists P. Greenwade Commission and Storage Co with phone contact 2 at ayf19-21.
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