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Newspaper

Mount Sterling Advocate

Location

Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America

Date

Feb 12, 1920

Page

15

Alienists Use Handwriting to Gauge Mental State

It is common for alienists to require a handwriting specimen to assess delusions insanity or emotional disturbances. The basis is a proven link between brain nerves and hand control, so a man’s writing reflects his mental temperament.

Margery Lee and the Crossed Paths of Devotion

An old moonlit verse echoes a tale of affection and fate. A man’s shadow confesses love to Margery Lee before he marries a cross eyed widow with many daughters, altering the course of a poet’s memory and happiness.

Margery Lee

Last of the Free Eats

A neighbor sent pudding for dinner but it went uneaten and ended in the garbage. The narrator recalls the awkward moment when the neighbor questioned the dish and reflects on the end of handouts from her.

Chicago Tribune Louisville Pikes

Sign of Intense Imagination Reflected in Handwriting

The text notes that looped ts and long letters in various handwriting styles signal vivid imagination. It argues such flourishes indicate a mental trend toward high nervous tension and diminished poise, marking the writer as markedly imaginative and unsettled.

Growth of Cremation Idea Across Regions

Statistics from under a decade ago show the United States with over 60 000 cremations spread across 38 crematories. The Pacific coast notes rapid growth and in 1918 the government contracted a crematory in the Canal Zone.

United States Pacific Coast Canal Zone

Local Visits and Moves Mentioned in Mt Sterling Area

Mrs Edward Beckman visits sister Mrs Virgil Donahue in Mt Sterling. Mrs Sidney Ensor and children of Jeffersonville visit her parents Mr and Mrs Algin Trimble. Mrs Myrtle Rogers and Miss Mae Jones shop in Mt Sterling Friday. Mr Richard Wingate and wife move to Kansas City Missouri.

Edward Beckman Virgil Donahue Mt. Sterling Sidney Ensor Jeffersonville Algin Trimble Myrtle Rogers Miss Mae Jones Frank Rogers Sim Jones Johnson Trimble Della Blankenship Edna Rogers Richard Wingate Kansas City

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