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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1920
Page
2
Nancy Deakins aged 25 and Martin O neal also 25 wed at the city courthouse Saturday at midnight. Judge Earl W Senff performed the ceremony. The couple will live on Queen Street and begin housekeeping. Deakins noted as popular and pretty, O Neal as a promising young businessman with the Tipton Company.
William Reed of the Glass Cash Grocery Company in Lexington has been promoted from salesman in one of his eleven Lexington stores to the position of manager with a decided salary increase. We are glad that William has made good.
R. E. Punch & Co offers marked down overcoats in a limited sale. The ad urges shoppers to take advantage of special prices on outerwear while stocks last. A small note about a humorous misquote on loyalty to church life appears in the surrounding text.
In a humorous gloss on a wedding, Pearl Bone chisel notes Mrs Stonehammer of The Weekly Slate reports the bride was given away by her father. The narrator quips about the groom’s duty and mocks the bride’s tongue temper and appearance, joking the match was necessary to rid him of her.
Modern agricultural machinery is largely unused in Formosa aside from about ten tractors on sugar plantations. Rice fields are too small for profitable mechanization and tea plantations do not require tractors.
In Madrid a predicted great car strike is described with a plan that would cause people to walk instead of drive. The remark implies widespread disruption and social impact from the anticipated action.
The passage notes Tom planning to give his wife a silk and silver-handled umbrella and hints he has decided to open up. The lines suggest a moment of decision and a gesture anchored in personal resolve.
The piece explains coin silver value versus market price, noting dollars and fractions hold less silver than face value but could reach near par. It warns melting coins may force replacement by stamps and reports England’s embargo on silver exports. It cites potential U S action to sell bullion to suppress prices.
A fragment notes a dialogue about a report and responsibility. The exchange mentions London and an implied inquiry into capability and fault regarding a report. The tone is conversational and contemporary in delivery.
A Pittsburgh laboratory has installed an elegant apparatus to collect purify and pipe radium emanation from the element salt. The system replaces liquid air with chemical purification methods, offering a more reliable approach as hospitals consider using emanation rather than direct radium applicators due to safety concerns.
The Bangkok Siam cinema district has nine operating theaters and a new large theater under construction. The building will cost about 200000 trials with 100000 more for furnishings. It will seat roughly 5000 people when completed.
A Birmingham Age-Herald note recalls seven doctors who warned he could not live a week but the patient recovered. The piece mocks medical certainty and marks his resilience against the doctors' expectations.
Dustin Stax explains that he built castles in the air but secured financial backing and a solid foundation for a skyscraper now rented on highly satisfactory terms.
A brief quoted exchange features She and He debating happiness and pleasing another, ending with He claiming he can be easily pleased and She doubting it in a dialogue snippet from the Boston Transcript.
A brief reader notice thanks relatives and friends for support in a sad hour. Mary G Wade and Lula Grigsby express gratitude. The page also advertises special prices on overcoats and sweaters, noting a general ad style and promotional phrasing.
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