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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1916
Page
2
President M B Adams spoke to Georgetown College students at the High School last Tuesday on The Magic of the Wind. The address held the students' close attention for nearly an hour and pleased the body.
A motivational line urges persistence and ambition, comparing ascent to reaching for distant stars. It frames perseverance as essential to progress and personal achievement.
A gentleman invites boys for a job and selects one after noting small acts. He highlights the boy’s care in wiping feet, door etiquette, courtesy to elders, prompt answers, orderly behavior, tidy clothes, and neat hair as true recommendations. He values what he can see over words.
Prof Bruce Reynolds resigns from leading the Paramount and Table theatres orchestra and returns to Lexington. He will teach a weekly class and probably assist in training the church choir at the Christian church.
A concise musing depicts a man who treats life as a dream. He avoids bailiffs and rarely has funds to cover basic necessities like the gas bill.
A public health note urges escaping the grippe by avoiding crowds and coughing or sneezing individuals. It advises walking instead of short rides, sleeping with windows open, daily outdoor walks, solitary care if ill, seeking a doctor, covering the face when sneezing, washing utensils separately, and avoiding patent grippe remedies.
A reflective maxim advises quiet, careful action with the promise of happy death and later knowledge beyond the living. The statement suggests prudence and restraint as paths to lasting peace and enlightenment after death.
A brief column skewers how society sizes up personal wealth and status. The piece blends humor with commentary on money, class, and public perception.
The piece argues that competition drives quality and fair prices, urging merchants to study customers, up their game, and advertise. It contrasts thriving competition with neglectful greed that dents business and pushes customers to mail order or rivals. It also notes a Florida obituary clipping for Mrs. Walter Stoops of Umatilla.
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