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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1920
Page
4
The piece rebuts the claim that candy drives the sugar shortage, noting candy varies in sugar content and uses other raw materials. It cites 1918 data showing households consumed 70 percent of sugar, manufacturers 30 percent, and candy only 8 percent, arguing removing candy use would barely affect household supply.
The confectionery sector warns a sugar shortage could force plant closures and lay off about 300000 workers including 60 percent women and girls. It argues the candy industry, a major $200 million investment, would suffer ripple effects across allied trades. The public deserves impartial consideration from officials overseeing sugar distribution? NOT GUILTY.
The article notes Henry Clay served as a professor at Transylvania College from 1804 to 1807 and later became a curator after leaving the college for politics, dying in 1852. It reflects on conduct and the golden rule in relationships.
The article explains model aircraft basics for beginners. It notes models should fly with the wind, not into it, and that scale models cannot be long-distance flyers. It mentions Treviestron models require appropriate propeller thrust to lift their weight.
A delegation of educated Indian women met the Secretary of State for India in London to protest excluding them from the enlarged electorates for the Indian legislatures. Speaker Mrs. Sarojini Naidu argued suffrage is not a radical break from custom.
Miss Elizabeth Goucher of Baltimore Maryland sails to Nanking to assume the chair of sociology and political science at Ginling College. She helped establish the institution five years ago and it is now a leading college for women in China.
A summer boarder complains the peaches served were not ripe. The server defends them as ripe, noting uncertainty about yesterday's fruit. The exchange highlights fruit quality concerns at the lodging.
A domestic admonition urges hosts to avoid forcing a child to perform when visitors arrive. The note highlights family etiquette and the social pressure on children to entertain guests.
Pierre Gastron, a Montparnasse tradesman, befriended an elderly miser who dies suddenly. That night the ghost instructs him to search under the third board from the wall in the bedroom where he finds the will and 750 francs in silver.
A quirky proverb highlights that even a simple task like opening a bank account may require more than luck. The line suggests hidden requirements and patient persistence in financial matters.
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