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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1912
Page
6
Henry Gaitskill died, Uncle Joe Johnson is ill from a fall, Oscar Henry and Miss Lillie Curtis wed in Maysville. Tobacco trades at 9-10 cents, fires destroy Sam Oldson's house, crops sold to Wallace and others, ice weather and cattle feeding begin. Dances, travels, lessons, and farm rents appear. rural life notes include weather, weddings, and local commerce.
The piece notes how Schirmer Drug Co of Saginaw Michigan grew from a half mile residence shop with irregular ads to a large modern store after adopting newspaper advertising. It credits James Fessner and the Courier Herald for promoting vivid ads and real news about items to sell, enabling expansion and the largest prescription department in the city. It also cites a hardware firm, Gemmill Hardware Co, that expanded after a similar advertising push. It then covers Judge Fuson inviting Bell county boys to corn and potato clubs for 1912 with cash prizes, praising growing rural clubs and postulates broader benefits for Kentucky farmers and communities.
The Rev C V T Richeson, once pastor of Immanuel Baptist Cambridge, made a written confession to poisoning his former sweetheart Avis Linnell. His counsel released the statement which includes his signature affirming guilt of the indicted offense.
B H Coyle Admix case sittings begin January 23 1912 at Mt Sterling Kentucky with final date January 26 1912 all persons having claims against the estate of B H Coyle must prove them properly per public notice filed in the court records.
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