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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1911
Page
5
Local notices report numerous visitors spending the holidays with relatives in Lexington and area towns including Owingsville Glasgow Cincinnati Louisville and Frankfort. Health updates and social notes mention recoveries illnesses and a Christmas scene with friends and neighbors. An advertisement promotes fresh pork at Greenwade and Vanarsdell depots.
George W. King of the Grassy Lick neighborhood wed Marjorie Pendleton of Don aldson in this city on Wednesday December 20 Rev B C Horton officiated. The couple left by the afternoon train for Indianapolis where the groom has a good position and will live.
The report lists families visiting relatives in the city for the holidays including Mrs Jas T Williams from Spring Station and others visiting sisters and parents in nearby towns. A death is noted as Mrs Bethel dies after her sister Rodney Jenkins rushes home to Elizabethtown.
Mrs. T. Newton Duff hosted guests at Mrs. Thomas Combs’s home in Lexing ton on Friday evening. Master Earl King Seuff entertained many friends with a Christmas tree afternoon games kept the children busy for hours and left them with a pleasant holiday memory.
Mr. G. W. Anderson Sr and wife hosted a large Christmas dinner at their country home for six children in their in law and grandchild circle. Guests included Jno W Lockridge and wife W C Moore and wife G A C Anderson and wife Geo W Anderson Jr and family and Missesida and Blanche Sickee.
A visitor asks if Buzzsaw Bill died intestate in a mining camp. Alkali Ken responds that he was shot in digo territory, pardner, hinting at a violent death and unsettled affairs.
In a dialogue style exchange, a senator pressed for forest preservation while another urged a limited reserve. The proposed protected area centers on Arizona’s petrified forest as a posterity savior amid lumber industry concerns.
Mt Sterling city council enacts a license tax schedule for life insurance, fire and accident insurers, guaranty or surety firms, oils wholesalers, express companies, and skating rinks. Rates: fire insurance 50 dollars. other insurers 25 dollars. oils dealers 100 dollars. express companies 100 dollars. skating rinks 25 dollars. Ordinance takes effect after passage and publication.
Guests trade tales of watermelon love with humorous dialect snippets about a sister named Lize and Jane. The dialogue centers on enjoying melons and the playful trouble of juice near the ears.
Judge Edward Clay O'Rear of Mt. Sterling resigns from the Kentucky Court of Appeals effective immediately and plans to practice law in Frankfort. Gov. Willson immediately names Robert Hiner Winn of Mt. Sterling, chairman of the Republican State Central Committee, to succeed O'Rear.
Marketing and packing circles deny a swine disease outbreak while noting hog cholera is present in Missouri and Illinois. Dr. Connaway warns some regions are freer than others, with drought-dried ponds worsening outbreaks in the northwest. Farmers push pigs to market before full illness is evident, citing vaccine shortages and disease as the main driver.
A traveling salesman in Lexington, Kentucky, asked an operator the telephone charge after a call to Chicago. The operator said thirty cents, prompting the salesman to joke that in Chicago one could talk to hell and back for 30 cents. The operator replied that yes, but this was a long distance call.
The author stresses atmosphere as essential to the aviation novel project. They describe a careful attention to mood and setting to convey flight culture and time, shaping scenes to feel authentic and immersive.
The dialogue joke lines mock a business manager’s wife's bid to enter high society tied to a pie trust. The quip pivots on office life and social ambition in a witty newsroom tone.
A shopper asks if the dress is easy to spot while a courteous clerk estimates its visibility being four blocks away, illustrating a brief exchange in a shop setting.
Actor Yourick Hamm asks if anyone has joined a new field. Actor Ham mett Fatt replies he is not yet enrolled in a new industry. He says he earns as a professional bohemian at a bohemian restaurant.
A cigar salesman touts a meerschaum pipe to a customer, prompting the woman to demand genuine merchandise and denounce the sale as fraudulent. The exchange reaches the Judge's Library as she refuses the counterfeit offer.
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