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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1921
Page
8
Beth six announces three life rules at dinner focusing on kindness safety and saving a child in a house fire. The passage notes an old horse with a mean disposition enjoys whipping colts, deriving satisfaction from fighting rather than gentleness.
The note urges maintaining happiness to shield from worry and contagion of distress. It claims a cheerful mind resists unhappiness, and by example others gain happiness too. A London Daily Express quotation accompanies a reminder to read the Classified ads.
A Lancaster vote by 1,000 barley growers backed reopening two local loose leaf houses and pledged support to warehousemen. The market reopened Tuesday in the crowded sort house as speakers urged growers to sell the crop and bear the burden. A second meeting will be called after this year’s crop is sold to plan future planting steps.
Miss Anna Bailey visits relatives on White Oak and many locals travel to Mt Sterling and Lexington. Notes include Mrs J L Ewing visiting near Mt Sterling, Judge Turner named Commissioner of the Court of Appeals, and several residents visiting kin in Paris Covington Lexington and Ashland. Others head to Nazareth and Asheville for schooling and health care.
Local notices advertise public sales of horses and mules at Mt. Sterling Stock Yards on Monday January 17. Listings include Jersey cows, a coal range, house for sale, real estate services, and various classifieds from Roy Morris Burl Ray and local merchants.
Prof George Roberts of the College of Agriculture explains farmers can profit by using tobacco especially dark varieties as fertilizer given low fertilizer prices. He notes that a ton of fine tobacco for distribution would fetch about 67.50 dollars and 3 37 per hundred pounds under current market prices.
Professor Roberts proposes using tobacco as a fertilizer when combined with acid phosphate. A ton of tobacco with four percent nitrogen and six percent potash mixed with 1 000 pounds of acid phosphate yields about two percent nitrogen and three percent phosphate, estimated to be worth roughly $50 per ton at current prices, according to The Advocate.
A truncated 19th century ad from Lyons seeks buyers for wagons buggies and harnesses. It promises a complete line and calls for all customers to come to J. RB for sales or inquiries.
Miss Minnie Goins visited Lexington early this week to shop for spring novelties from eastern representatives of leading importing firms, aiming to update stock.
Advertisement by John A. Sheehan promotes sweet clover cheaper and better than red clover with direct grower prices and free circulars. Honey prices listed. Location Falmouth Kentucky with rural route address. A note about girls and crossing their legs appears as an unrelated line.
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