This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 18 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1920
Page
4
Art studio by Miss Dorothy Tyler at her Sycamore Street home offers lessons in crayon, charcoal, pen and ink, oil, watercolor and design painting plus basketry and poster work. She invites children under 16 to enroll. Also notices monument purchases for Decoration Day.
Forty year listing offers 325 acres near Lexington with six room house, two large tobacco barns, stock barn, orchard and water, 200 acres in forty year old sod for tobacco. Priced at 250 dollars per acre exclusive listing. Also 114 acres three miles out with eight room brick house, modern bath, Delco lights, three stock barns, outbuildings, ponds and cisterns priced at 400 dollars per acre. Offered by Henry Kelly Lexington Ky at 134 West Short Street.
Classified ad sheet lists cemetery memorials by Lexington Granite Co with address 771 West Main Street Lexington KY and Stanley Brown salesman for Eastern Kentucky, plus various ads for pianos organs and repairs, furniture coal and furniture stores, meat market grocer, auto accessories, welding and metalwork, vacuum cleaner sales, and farmer buyers for poultry eggs hides furs scrap iron rubber with contact numbers and promotional offers.
A dense mash of sale notices and trade ads lists land parcels for sale 40 11 18 and 197 acres and 200 acres with dwellings and lots, plus farm goods hay corn and timber ad lines. Auctioneer John W Bain offers auction services from Lexington Kentucky with contact details. Local businesses advertise products from flour to restaurant meals and moving services with prices and contact numbers. References to Carolina products and florist orders appear alongside general classified solicitations and rental inquiries.
A terse notice touts Advocate classified ads offering to sell your house and other services for 10 cents per line. The reader is urged to try the service.
Classified notices list items for sale and services in Louisville area. Buyers seek logs for several species, scales, rental rooms and storefront space offered by multiple vendors. Lost item notes include a crank for a Hup automobile returned to A S Hart.
W M Parrish offers real estate live stock and personal property and public sales. Office at Main and Bank with phone 491 residence 143 West Short Street Lexington Kentucky. Specializes in city and suburban homes and adjacent counties.
Classified autos and accessories ads offer engraved visiting cards, stationery, and admission deals. Listings include Ford service and repairs, Harley Davidson and Excelsior motorcycles, Adams Young at 233 E. Main St, radiator repairs by Auto Radiator Specialists, and related parts.
A collage of local advertisements offering buggy robes wagon harness chiropodist services auto hire and taxi contact plumbing machine shop shingle lumber and furniture sellers with prices and contact points in Lexington Kentucky plus storage battery service and car dealers promoting repairs and sales
An English inventor W P Hoyle created a device that separates valuable material from waste, washing cinders, turning dust into fertilizer, cleaning tins and sorting paper. It also converts clinkers into concrete blocks, saving about £38 per 100 tons of waste for a town of 85 000. Across Britain 9 million tons are discarded yearly, with Aberdeen Sheffield and Glasgow already saving large sums from bottle and jar collections.
Count Czernin recalls a World War I aerial encounter where Baron Richthofen and an English pilot circled each other over French lines. When Richthofen’s machine gun jammed, the English pilot waved, signaled, and turned away, sparing the German ace.
The passage notes a Tasmanian mammal species whose females lay eggs. Young hatch from these eggs, resembling bird offspring. It is described as one of the lowest orders of mammals, about the size of a baby porcupine, covered in dense spines, and possessing a slender white horn beak.
A child observes a household cat stretching after its sweater shrinks. He returns to play and sees the cat now appears larger, declaring cats grow by stretching.
Chemists report that the holly species Ilex vomitoria contains significant caffeine levels in dried leaves. The drug content ranges from one to one and a half percent, according to Popular Mechanics Magazine.
An up to date Battery Service Station offers repair and re charging for all makes at the lowest prices. A complete stock of fresh new batteries fits every car and free water is added during testing. Prest-O-Lite Batteries mentioned.
The excerpt contemplates desert silence as a profound natural truth surpassing the sea’s mysteries. It contrasts the desert nights cooling heat with a sky awash in red, describing an eternal rest that soothes the soul through quiet and solitude.
A cheap filtration method uses a large garden pot with the bottom hole stopped by sponge. Add several inches of powdered charcoal, fill with water, and let it stand above a pail or tub supported by sticks. Water passes through charcoal and becomes fit for use. Refresh the charcoal every three months and several times a year.
A boy named Billy, a favorite with young Jeanette, returns from abroad with a broken arm in a sling. Jeanette exclaims in delight that Billy has arrived with his injury, adding dramatic excitement to the family scene.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.