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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1920
Page
3
A community note recalls a woman on her front porch and her daughter in a flower bed during a house photo. The piece reflects local humor about life, illness, and a tax of small town quirks with updates on flu cases and pneumonia among neighbors.
A reflective line notes that speed does not always determine outcomes as people face challenges and temptations without clear guarantees or guarantees of success. It suggests caution and patience in uncertain situations.
Mrs Jim Jackson spent Monday with Mrs Julia Clarke. Edith Clay is born to the wife of Mr Clayton Wills. Misses Edith and Mildred Hadley visit friends in Chilesburg Kentucky this week. John Horton spent Sunday with brother in law Mr C L Dean who is seriously ill. Willie Bell Hadley with Maggie Clarke. Anna Mary Watson spent the past week with her sister Mrs Tom Hawkins in Sharpsburg. Maggie Clarke spent Sunday night with Willie Bell Hadley. Alfred Watson confined to his room with mumps. Joe Prewitt called on Fannie Fortune Sunday evening. Mrs Tom Oldfield died near Spencer after a lingering illness. L B Reasor confined to his room with influenza.
Jessie Wiggington left for Hamilton Ohio while Henry Gast returned home after a three week Mid dletown Ohio stay. George Stevens moved to Flat Creek last Tuesday and his daughter fell ill with pneumonia. Tucker Mansfield held a sale on Tuesday the 24th and plans to hunt in the North after catching the region’s fish and game.
John Brinsmead and Sons announces closure of its British piano factory ending decades of employment for long service staff. Prewar output was one piano weekly per six workers, 1918 saw one per twelve, now one per eighteen. Higher wages and larger workforce push costs above sale prices. restart only if economics improve.
The piece argues that high prices are blamed on dealers and manufacturers, but the real issue is the drift of labor and its effect on costs. It notes a British piano industry example and asks how often workers are perceived as robbing themselves, with a wider shot at Prohibitionists and social aims.
The Advocate Semi-Weekly advertises a $1.50 yearly subscription and features a provocative line defining a “society woman” as a woman with nothing to do, and who wouldn’t do it if she had.
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