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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1917
Page
6
Hardware store facing uncertain future as owner reflects on years serving the community and discusses plans for succession and possible closure. Local customers express mixed reactions about shop's legacy and availability of services.
Wealthy Huntington resident Co C Huddleston was killed on a Louisville and Nashville train near Hazard by Robert B Franklin a Whitesburg lumber dealer who killed himself after firing one shot. The double tragedy occurred as the train entered a tunnel a mile from Hazard with passengers hearing muffled gunfire.
An advisory note touts washing and sterilizing wool blankets for health. It urges readers to call Phone 15 to learn scientific methods for protecting themselves and their families.
Franklin and Huddleston died after a shooting aboard a Whitesburg to Hazard train. The men, formerly chatting, had a debt dispute over lumber from Huddleston's company. The train halted at Hazard, doctors arrived, but both men died shortly after. Franklin's body went to Whitesburg and Huddleston's to West Virginia. Both were known figures in the region.
High shoe costs drive customers to J h Brunner's offer to remanufacture and repair old footwear. The service highlights a local option to extend shoe life through skilled handwork and cost savings.
The author argues to reduce living costs by restoring rural work and farming, condemning idle urban labor and wasteful middlemen. He blames food speculators but emphasizes supply and demand, urging able urban workers to farm and end wasting idle land and labor.
A testimonial claims Vinci restores energy for run down and weak people after other remedies failed. The ad urges farmers to move labor to rural areas and cultivate waste lands, arguing city robbing farm harms growth and suggests a plan to relocate workers. It also notes fashion clubs discussing birth control.
A puzzled editorial frames Europe’s peace efforts as folly while noting the baseball season proceeds on schedule and public routine deaths persist, urging resilience and a weary cheer despite grim news.
Mr and Mrs Warner Hinson sold their forty two acre farm near Camargo known as the George Rayborn place to Dave Campbell of Paris Pike. Price paid five thousand dollars. Possession will be given March 1.
Mrs. Mary F. Henson of Mt. Sterling credits Dean's Kidney Pills with curing her backache nervous spells headaches and vision trouble after trying doctors with no relief. She reiterates the remedy's effectiveness more than three years later and notes it is available at Duerson's Drug Store for 50 cents. Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY.
In the November executed will witnessed by A Shirley and C D Grubbs, Mrs Ireland provides for use and maintenance for her two grandchildren William Raymond Cord children of Edith Cord and then divides the remainder of her estate equally between her daughters Mrs Cord and Mrs Sallie Neal of Missouri. Charles D Grubbs named executor empowered to sell real or personal property. Estate valued between 10000 and 12000 dollars with realty in other counties.
A humorous note contrasts a fad lemon-squeezer with a home-made squeezer, joking that the alternative works only if it is not a lemon. The quip playfully critiques gadget trends and domestic ingenuity.
230 acre farm with two building sets for sale near the levee. Available as a single parcel or divided to suit buyer. For terms and details contact E. H. Moss at phone 693 W-1 Mt. Sterling Ky.
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