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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1913
Page
6
Amid bustling aisles a shopper berates a tired clerk with harsh remarks and misfires of Christmas cheer. The piece riffs on consumer fatigue and pity for overworked retail staff as a parody of the season. The document includes a notarized claim for Hall's Catarrh Cure.
Mrs Phelps Renick entertained at a Winchester bridge party with pink carnation decor. Seven tables played for prizes won by Miss Merrie Rees and a booby prize to Mrs Bronston McCord. Afterward a meat course was served. entertainment included piano selections by Mrs Emilee Hibler Reid.
The Fulton Daily Leader and the Weekly Commercial have been sold to a syndicate of Fulton business men who now operate the plant. Mott Ayers, editor and founder of the Leader fifteen years ago, will likely move to Hot Springs Arkansas to pursue newspaper work. The purchase price is said to be about $10,000. Ayers married Mary Miller Coleman of the city.
H. Clay McKee & Sons advertise real estate buying selling and renting loans and investments. They offer insurance surety bonds and car sales featuring The White Motor Car.
A carriage and transfer wagon are prepared to meet all trains. Contact by phone 21 or 337. A7TE. WILL BEAN.
Kentucky Mt Sterling firm Lexing Mausoleums advertises a new Home phone line 252 ton as it promotes mausoleums and monuments in Mount Sterling Kentucky with local contact details for residents seeking memorials.
A compact notice lists services including real estate loans collecting agency notary public contractor and carpenter with contact at 3 Wesley Street Mt. Sterling Kentucky plus phone 471 requesting prompt attention to entrusted business.
President Wilson considers government ownership of telegraph and telephone lines as Postmaster General Burleson gathers data. Burleson notes previous talks with the President and says he will not push recommendations until investigations are complete.
A florist advertisement enlists Charles L Simon, successor to John Corbitt, with contact phone 435 19-1f, offering holiday greetings and Christmas cards.
A historical piece notes that wealth does not guarantee happiness but brings near it enough to provoke a jubilant Halleluia sentiment among readers. The language emphasizes the cultural relief and optimism tied to affluence in a social context.
Sanitary Meat Market advertises extra nice country sausage available for purchase. The notice highlights quality and local appeal, urging customers to visit the market for a tasty value.
A reflective piece questions earthly price inflation and popularity as a transient illusion, contrasting human desires with cosmic possibilities while pondering meaning beyond material appeal.
Prewitt and Howell advertise a low price brassware line with the claim of best quality and value in their shop.
A 19th century note from C. W. Harris advocates making the present rest and comfort an easy chair of 23 21. The text suggests a design or concept for simplifying daily rest and ease.
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