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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1911
Page
6
A lawyer narrates a tale of a left handed man who lost his left leg. The jury awards extra damages citing left handedness. The speaker notes juries value the right leg more, yet pay a premium for a left leg when the owner is left handed. He mocks jury reasoning.
Short, witty dialogue notes a joke about Mrs Jones and Mrs Newned debating housekeeping skills. Mrs Smith adds a quip about baking bread in a chafing dish last week.
Analysis of color symbolism links blue to hope and divine works, gold to glory and power, green to faith and immortality, pale tones to baptism and peace, gray to tribulation, purple to justice and royalty, red to martyrdom, rose to martyrdom and witness, scarlet to fer vor and glory, silver to chastity, violet to penitence, and white to purity and temperance. The list ties each hue to virtues, virtues, and spiritual states in Christian thought.
A Manchester Chronicle note recalls that coffin burial only became common around 1700 or later. Earlier, naked burial was allowed but debated, with Farnham around 1680 showing only 14 of 55 burials in coffins and the rest in earth.
Inside a mammoth carcass in Siberia scientists found vegetables not previously identified. The objects appear to be remnants of the prehistoric animal’s diet and represent unfamiliar plant varieties discovered in the ancient stomach region.
In France the adulteration of food is claimed to yield about 100 million dollars in annual profits. This figure underscores concerns over safety as authorities seek stronger controls and penalties.
The article lauds American machinery as superior, noting its dominance in Scotland's book binderies and implying broader industrial prestige for the United States.
Henry Houck Republican nominee for secretary of internal affairs concedes to be the most popular man before voters in years at a hot Pittsburg notification meeting. The crowd’s patience wore thin as John M. Reynolds spoke first, and Houck quipped that his speech consists of one page, claiming he kept it short.
The article describes orange red monarch butterflies with black bands and white dots migrating from Canada to Cuba in autumn. It notes their long nocturnal flights, seas crossing feats of 500 miles, and roosting behavior on trees and bushes before continuing at dawn. It mentions predators and why many survive to end summer.
Galicia is described as a country roughly as large as Scotland with about 6 million residents. Poles predominate in the western half and Ruthenians in the east, with the region spanning Carpathian slopes and plains around the Dniester, Bug, and Vistula basins. The passage notes Austria gained this fringe area after historic partitions of Poland.
The passage argues that equality of rank wealth intellect and influence can never exist by divine providence and human will. Yet equality of hopes aims essential happiness and common destiny is possible, contrasting the relentless presence of moles and mountains with the possibility of shared inner equality.
The essay describes Berlin as Europe’s second city, growth catalyzed 35 years earlier by enlarged canals and rail networks. It argues eastward and westward waterways to the Oder and Elbe anchor prosperity, while Pittsburg’s long distance trade gains via expanding inland water routes, including direct Montana freight and barge shipments to St Paul, highlighting navigation challenges and future potential on the Ohio to New Orleans.
The New York Tribune editorial argues that political morality has declined since women gained the vote and that the boss and machine corruptions have grown. It claims the effect on women and the body politic appears neutral, noting this as an injudicious declaration.
A Ko diak Alaska cattle breeding station works to improve milking qualities of Galloway cattle and acclimate hardy stock for settlers. The goal is to supply hardy cattle at a price not higher than import costs, leveraging the favorable coast region for cattle raising.
From Peking comes news that Prince Isai Tao, head of the Chinese military mission abroad for two months, has cut off his pigtail. Chinese officers greet the act as a signal that their commander in chief may permit others to follow suit.
In Castlerea and Gurteen districts bog land hosts many pensioners under the new act. Bogs, said to be antiseptic and preservative, yield 325 dollars yearly for some through the scheme. A house with five pensioners illustrates the spread, as reclaimed bogs sustain calm lives now opened to prosperity.
Hank Hamiston, a miner, located a lost mine this week after months of wandering Salmon river region. The dike is about a hundred feet wide and rich in gold bearing gravel and talc. The mine’s history ties to Griff Roberts who discovered it in 1877 and vanished after the Indian uprising of that era near Slate creek.
Prince Nicholas of Montenegro has a wife described as a farmer's daughter making her a plebeian queen to outsiders. Queen Milena is portrayed as intellectual and capable, mother of nine children including the Queen of Italy and wives to Russian grand dukes and Prince Francis Joseph of Battenberg.
The year 1911 began and ended on Sunday giving 53 Sundays in 365 days. This will not occur again until 1922. Leap year shifts cause the next year to begin on the following weekday. Previous 53-Sunday years include 1905 1899 1893 and 1882.
In a 1912 advertisement Advocate Pub. Co. promotes calendar samples in over 500 designs. It urges merchants to buy locally for low prices and comparable quality, inviting customers to compare home options.
Subscribers are urged to renew without delay to avoid extra statements and postage costs. The notice explains how to read the date on the wrapper, showing paid through a specific month and year, and asks readers behind on payments to remit promptly.
For sale quickly. Ten horse power gas engine offered as a bargain if sold at once. Call at the Advocate Office. Courteous treatment and prompt delivery of meats and groceries at Greenwade's.
A notice states embossed monogram on society stationery is available at 50 cents per box, highlighting a customization option for formal writing materials.
The piece notes a booming market for pedigreed swine with high values and renewed farmer investment. It cautions against past boom bust cycles, urging steady growth and new herds while acknowledging pork price pressures curbing consumption. It cites public and private sales and the swing of the market bellwether.
The piece notes high pork prices and a shift in farming toward expanding swine breeding while cattle producers rush into hogs. It questions the logic of the market, warns that the cattle outlook is being neglected, and suggests that mispriced futures may cost farmers money as pork demand dominates once more.
A new asylum superintendent strolling the grounds is praised by an inmate who says the new official is more like one of them. The inmate notes the change from the last supervisor and the superintendent gratefully thanks him.
In a humorous exchange, two girls quip about a notorious bigamist who “married every girl he wanted to.” One declares interest in marriage, while the other notes it could not be legal.
The market for young camels is strongest in Egypt where the government buys many for military purposes. This indicates sustained demand from official buyers and potential implications for camel traders.
A Japanese woman, Madam Laporte, operates as a dentist in London. Her ante room is described as exceedingly pretty and blue with silver dragons, and she performs her dental work without hurting the patient in the least, a point emphasized in the report.
Pineapples are exported from Hawaii in large quantities. The juice is bottled and shipped worldwide as a tasty beverage.
The exchange features Howell asking Powell if he prays for rain and Powell replying he has never felt heaven influence a fool weather clerk. The dialogue highlights stubborn attitudes toward weather forecasting.
Australia enjoys an unusually prosperous year with exports and bank clearings rising, signaling broad economic strength. Analysts note improved trade figures and stronger financial flows across industries.
A report estimates about 130000 foreign waiters are employed in London, reflecting a sizable immigrant workforce in the capital’s hospitality sector.
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