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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1920
Page
5
An advertisement pledges exclusive agency for Victrola Columbia and Edison phonographs and records. It invites owners of any talking machine to join a mailing list for monthly new records by sending name and address or visiting the store.
A long list of social engagements and travel notes from Lexington Louisville and nearby areas. Guests include Mrs Carroll Chenault Miss Lola Lawrence Mrs Mamie Satterwhite Mr and Mrs Charles Highland and many others visiting theaters matinees or returning from trips to Paris Cincinnati Florida and Paris. The column ends with a quip about those lacking five dollars.
A fragmented clipping notes Clarke and Mrs K with unclear context. The wording hints at a boxing or ring scene and a social remark about women trying to develop or rub off development, but specifics remain unreadable.
The Young Girls Mission Circle will meet at Mrs. Tipton's with Mrs. Tipton and Miss Henry on Tuesday night. Grassy Lick M E Church schedules a congregational service next Sunday morning with preaching morning and evening by the pastor. Morning topic Babes in Christ and Sunday school at 9:30. prayer service Wednesday at 7. District Conference at Winchester was well attended. Rev Reynolds replaces the assigned Sandy Hogh Walnut Flat Clear Creek and Whaley's Chapel post, starting March 1, and will stay in Elliott County with his family, expected to bring notable evangelistic work.
Local millinery shop Mrs. K O Clarke invites customers to view a fresh display of hats at 38 41. Bright colors and stylish trims showcase spring fashion. Open daily with personal fittings available.
N T McKee of New York, foremost superheated steam authority and chief of the Locomotive Superheated Company, visits Lexington. A Mt Sterling native, he notes 38 000 U S locomotives use his device saving up to 30 percent fuel and spoke to University of Kentucky engineering students.
The prohibition enforcement bill cleared the House 62 to 23 with amendments, retains jail and penitentiary penalties, tightens injunctions and abatement, strips confiscation, and aligns with the Volstead Act. It limits sales and manufacture of intoxicants, details penalties, bonds, and records for doctors, pharmacists, and corporations, and grants police power to railroad staff.
The sick list shows Mrs. A J Gatewood improved after serious illness. Mrs. A E Lawrence is ill at her Isola building apartment. Miss Besse Robinson has flu for several days. Miss Clara Stamper ill with flu on East Main street. Carolyn Thompson, daughter of Mr and Mrs W Lois Thompson, ill for a few days. S S Pinney recovering well after appendicitis operation in Lexington. James Guilfoile improved from severe pneumonia and now out of danger. John D MacColm of Huntington convalescing from pneumonia. Harry Crooks recovering after appendicitis surgery in Louisville. Mrs James H Wood recovering rapidly after operation at St Joseph’s Hospital.
Advertiser seeks a small barn or usable old lumber for construction. Apply at Advocate Office.
A compact note echoes a dramatic line about a gun becoming loaded. The line hints at danger tied to a failing memory and a critical moment of realization. The Advocate Classified Ads are invoked as a framing device.
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