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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1914
Page
4
The Advocate highlights four local banking institutions with over 1.3 million dollars on deposit and notes 6800 dollars in overdrafts. It urges disciplined banking and discourages overchecking, praising safety and community confidence. It also praises Manager Wilkerson at the Table Opera House and calls for order during performances.
Mr. R A Childers of Jeffersonville has been made Postmaster, succeeding J D Stephens, and has begun duties. A well known Democrat and active county committee member, he is regarded as honorable and worthy of the position. The paper predicts satisfaction for patrons.
The note urges readers to end disputes and restore calm as a general call to action. It emphasizes resolving debts and tensions to restore order and stability in the community.
The article notes a New York stage trend toward amusing plays and highlights Officer 666 by Augustin MacHugh as a strong farce. It praises punchy lines, speed, action, and clean comedy, predicting a successful production at the Table Opera House on January 13 with Lexington show following on January 15.
Change of firm clearance sale offers extraordinary cut prices on coffee, tea, matches, brooms, soap, washing powder, starch, syrup, china, glass, tin and granite ware, spearmint gum, Colgan’s toffee, 2 packages for 5 cents. Best cane sugar 20 pounds for $1.00 and Rio Coffee 18 cents a pound. Sale runs until February 1.
On Monday January 19 1913 County Court Day I will sell ten shares of Traders National Bank Mt. Sterling stock at the Court House door in blocks of five shares each. The sale will be at public outcry at 1 pm for cash or on credit up to one year with 6 percent interest. The stock will be pledged as security.
Verses recount a turkey on a fence and a farmer’s pride, then a retreat to home and rural life. The excerpts, attributed to Chicago News and author Fannie Stearns Davis, weave humor about Thanksgiving and longing for home.
Poem asking sleep to come and cleanse the mind like sea waves and snowfall. The speaker seeks renewal and oblivion from sleep, hoping for refreshment and rebirth in spring. The lines evoke tranquil imagery and personal longing for rest.
Poem line pieces describe enduring family bonds across distances until they reunite at the old home each Thanksgiving day, closing with a signature by Eugene C. Dolson.
A devotional verse extols Thanksgiving as a year of plenty with harvest imagery and divine gifts. It asks for continued blessings, eyes and a contrite heart, and elevates love as the gift, concluding with a selected refrain about gratitude.
A lyric meditation on love as a dual path. The speaker contrasts a pleasant imagined road with a rocky reality of tears and dreams. If offered a return to the first awakening, they would choose the hard crossing for paradise found in their beloved’s arms.
A Baltimore Sun line extols nature’s quiet work in storms and perfect days. It emphasizes nature’s steady, unboastful power spreading calm from coast to coast without fanfare.
Cannibals in Neumecklenburg island of the Bismarck archipelago captured and killed 16 people including Dr. Deiniger and another German scientist along with 14 natives. The scientists were tortured before execution as fires were built under large pots.
Edwin Fuller Jr of the Central Kentucky Natural Gas Co died suddenly in St. Petersburg Florida while bathing. He had been in Lexington for Christmas visits and had worked eight years in the company's legal department, leaving many friends behind.
H G Garrett and John Hardwick of Winchester bought 2500 acres of coal land in Perry county near the Letcher line from the Brashear heirs who moved to Texas. The land is described as highly valuable for coal deposits. Price not disclosed. Purchasers plan spring mining operations and large scale business.
The notice invites patrons to a new barber shop on Bank Street with cleaner facilities and low prices for Sunday shaves. It also mentions brick-and-mortar ads for butcher and grocery/meat market offerings and notes the Rev. William Gay Eldred will move to Shelbyville Indiana to lead the Christian church there February 1 after five years in Carlisle.
The Laughlin Company offers guttering and roofing services as a specialty. They bring the Advocate in for job work, signaling a focused delivery of repair and installation tasks.
Statement shows total assets of 658992 dollars and 53 cents at close of business on December 1st 913. A 5 percent dividend was credited to stockholders.
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