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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1915
Page
2
The message expresses a wish that every resident shares in a Christmas turkey meal. It urges kindness to those unable to buy a turkey, hoping neighbors will ensure everyone has a place at the table and plenty to eat on Christmas day.
Announcement invites the community to bring hogs for killing and rendering into lard and sausage. Participants are asked to return cured meat ready for salting.
Local advertisement by P. Pierce offering pumps and filters with price quotes. Claims potential savings before purchase and provides a contact phone number 706.
In a Frankfort Kentucky advisory, residents are urged not to flood telephone exchanges with curiosity calls during large fires as operators lack extra information. Calls for physicians ambulance or police can delay life saving help, risking human life.
A Kentucky farming note urges deeper winter plowing to improve subsoil mixing and moisture retention. It advocates seven to eight inches rather than the usual five to six, adding draft animals per inch, and warns against repeating shallow tillage that depletes phosphorous and potash. The goal is a deeper subsoil reservoir to weather next summer’s heat and drought.
In Jackson Mississippi a man recounts his chronic coughing relief after trying a remedy promoted by Bassett Drug Co of Mt. Sterling Kentucky. He recalls personal illness and relief while noting humorous observations about men and family life.
Dr. Ap Morgan Vance a surgeon of international reputation died at his Louisville home on Thursday after noon from heart trouble. He had been ill eight weeks and his family was at his bedside. His health declined over two years with nose hemorrhages in 1912 and later kidney complications. Despite aid from Dr. Ben Carlos Frazier and Rowan Morrison his condition worsened until death. The medical profession loses a foremost figure in surgery known worldwide and to Mt Sterling residents.
A readable note describes a gift item a pound or half-pound humidor of favorite smoking tobacco with a greeting card attached from The Delicious Cafe. The OCR fragment notes the item and shop name as the main details.
Low Christmas holiday fares offered with tickets on sale December 17 to 25 1915 and return by January 10 1916. Tickets available from local agents with W A Beckler Cincinnati as general agent. Also a note promoting Mt Sterling's Delicious Cafe boxes of candy.
Daily notices invite job work to the Advocate office and promote celery and cranberries available at Vanaredell's every day.
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