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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1920
Page
7
The office relocates from Geiger's Pharmacy to the new Trader's Bank Building. The change affects clients and routine operations as the proprietor seeks updated contact points and directions.
A pie supper held Saturday night January 24 in the school auditorium drew strong bidding and lively old tunes from Tom Greenwade and Pink Ricketts. The event supported the Orphans Home drive with a home talent play planned for February.
George Henry Rash, a Black man, was tried in Circuit Court for the murder of his stepdaughter Leila Garrett on the Fox place last autumn. He received a life term in the State penitentiary.
Miss Margaret Ardery of Paris and a friend were in an automobile that plunged about 30 feet off a West Short street embankment in Lexington. The wreck crashed through the front fence and halted on the porch of 127 Payne street. No injuries to the occupants were reported.
Police answered an 8 0 8 call and towed a touring car back to the street using the Black Maria. Two young women were found in the car and taken to a garage as they returned home in another vehicle. Miss Ardery is a well known local resident.
Hay frames and beds, John Deere riding cultivators, 1 Tiger tobacco setter, I. H. C. corn planter, 80 rds chain ensilage cutter, Randall harrows, New Ky. wheat drill and feeder, steel beam, Vulcan turning plows, good feed sled, 60-tooth harrow, double shovel plows.
Bureau of Labor Statistics figures show retail food prices up 50 to 200 percent since 1913 through December 1919. Meats, butter, eggs, bread, flour, and dairy products led gains with double digit to triple digit increases while wholesale prices for clothing and house furnishings also rose sharply.
If the railroads made no better time than the Republican Congress has in legislating for them there never would be any reaching a destination.
The U S Civil Service Commission announces a rural carrier exam for Bath County Kentucky to place carriers at Sharpsburg and other rural routes. The test will be held at Mt Sterling on February 28, 1920 and is open to domiciled citizens meeting Form No 1977 requirements.
Mildred travels with her father to a nearby village and on return reports to her mother about seeing a woman she describes as looking newer than a known woman. The anecdote hints at a strikingly unfamiliar figure encountered in the village.
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