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Newspaper

Mount Sterling Advocate

Location

Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America

Date

Jan 20, 1920

Page

4

Diverse Listings Showcasing Used Cars and Local Services

A flood of classified items outlines second hand cars including a 1917 Chandler seven passenger touring car a 1917 Chalmers Coupe a 1916 Jeffery Sedan and a 1915 Maxwell Touring Car all in running order. Also advertised are cemetery memorials printing services pianos furniture coal groceries meat and more from Lexington area businesses with various sale offers and free admissions.

Chandler Chalmers Jeffery Maxwell Jewell Hawthorne Motor CO West Main Street Lexington Studybaker Touring Bessie P. Wilson E. Maxwell Street

Wanted to make regular engagements for milk and cream

Classified ads announce milk and cream buying inquiries by J. C. Gaitskill with prices for a Kentucky Spring Seat Saddle and other horse gear. John R. Salmons lists harness and horse supplies on N. Maysville Street while The Advocate touts its news coverage and ad services at 10c a line. Miss Nettie Prewitt to be admitted to the table Wednesday night.

W. 8. Smathers Table Advocate Robert Howell Walter Triplett J. C. Gaitskill Kentucky John R. Salmons Maysville Street Nettie Prewitt Airé William E. May

Local Classifieds Include Rentals Lost Finds and Services

Mt Sterling Laundry seeks cash register and platform scale. Real estate ads for Cravens Turpin and Pieper's groceries. Rentals include corner store rooms and a Gazette Publishing office space. Auto services from Dixie Motor Co and Ragan Gay Garage. Found and lost pocketbooks offered reward. Real estate brokers Bramblett and Parrish list farms and homes near Lexington. Various trades from shoe repairs to cheiroprist, plumbing, and taxi services advertised.

Cravens & Turpin Main and Bank Streets

Lines to Be Remembered Aggressive fighting for the right

The item extols the noble sport and invokes Roosevelt in a defense of fencing’s honor. It presents a historical claim about fighting spirit and patriotism, urging readers to remember lines about courage and discipline in sport.

Hemlore Roosevelt

Straw to Supply Future Newsprint From Grain Waste

Price Green of Toronto told Chicago industry exhibitors that paper from straw could replace spruce as pulp supplies dwindle. He noted the waste straw from grains may become a major source, as the United States consumes half the world’s paper with only 15 percent of its population.

Price- Green Toronto Canadian National Railways Chicago United States

Speech of Dumb Animals Reveals Pets Pleading for Help

Katherine Hansen recounts two episodes from Dumb Animals where animals clearly showed wants. An airedale followed a street and drank from a water faucet after the observer filled it. A fox terrier begged for aid over an ill fitting collar, which when fixed, wagged its tail with evident happiness.

Katherine Hansen

Wealth Under New York Riches in Mineral Wealth

The article claims New York City sits among the world's richest mineral basements, noting a large garnet found in 1885 at Seventh Avenue and Thirty First Street and listing aquamarines tourmalines quartz and opals in Broadway ledges. It argues valuable deposits are inaccessible and real estate will guard them forever.

New York City Lance Rock Norway Seventh Avenue Atth Street Broadway New York

Fractured schoolyard tale echoes at home

A home scene from Flatbush and Bensonhurst features a boy who has picked up a classroom yell. The punch line shows the neighbors reacting as the boy’s antics reach his den, illustrating how school behavior travels to family life.

Flatbush Bensonhurst Bloomin

Changeable Raiment Suit From Paris Displays Color Shift

A European novelty called the chameleon suit attracts Paris crowds. Made from cloth with cobalt chloride, it changes color with temperature. It appears blue in cold weather and shifts to bright pink as warmth increases.

Paris

Also Mentioned on This Page

Ragan-Gay Motor CO U. S Tabe Theatre Firestone Tires—Turpin & Son Fayette County Pike Henry Kelly West Short Street Lexington Granite Co Stanley Brown Sterling Kranich & Bach Brinkerhoff B. C. Fulton Templeman Piano Co Cor. Bank and Main Streets Columbia Grifondas Aeolian Vocalion E. C. Christian Music Co East Main Street Lexington, Ly Sanitary Meat Co Fayette Furniture Co Limestone Yellow Jacket Indian Creek Coal and Feed Company Pieper’s Lexington Engine and Boiler Works W. A. Sutton & Son the Advocate For Printing K. C. McKee John A. Sheehan R. D. No Falmouth John W. Bain W. Short St Mt. Sterling Tts Maysville St P. K. McKenna Fennell Lexington Florist Mary C. Ayres J. R. Lyons John Deere Mitchell D. C. Fox Clell Cockrell Heinrich & Son South Queen Street Corona W. H. Warren Transylvania Printing Co L. C. Smith & Bros Corona Typewriters Wales Standard Typewriter Exchange Stagg Typewriter Company Lexington, Ky Judson Anderson Pries Mt. Sterling Laundry Beach Sycamore C. C. Mengel & Brothers Co Louisville, Ky H. C. McKee Gazette Publishing Company South Liberty Street H. Clay McKee Walsh Co W. A. Bondurant O’connell’s Shoe Labratory Lloyd’s Cafe Ben Franklin W. Main St A. E. Lawrence Timmins Machine Shop W. Vine St Taxi Turpin & Son B. A. Hamilton Hoosier Cabinets J. W. Baker D. B. Lisby Waddy Pieper’s. Loe Ee Nicholas, Fleming Bath Bourbon Fayette Woodford Scott C. A. Bramblett Carlisle Wm. Cravens Main and Bank Sts Davis & Wilkinson W. M. Parrish West Short St Commercial Auto Co Main St Montgomery Menifee Ford Service Harley- Davidson Excelsior Renin Adams & Young E. Main St. Lexington B. Green E. Main St Ragan-Gay Garage Title Guarantee & Trust Co Dixie Automobile Co., Inc H. A. Cobb Mer Short St Willard Storage Fayette Motor &Co W. T. Atchison & Sons Tay Wal Topling Lumber Co Hoffman the Advocate Strother Motors Company Ferndell H. B. Ringo’s Mt. Sterling Grocery E. T. Reis Coyle J. F. Lockhart Ragay-Gay Motor Co W. A. Suttop & Son Hancock’s Jim Jones Jim C. M. Stafford Camargo BR. F. Gray M. Jackson McCarty Bros Betty Ciddie Canada Wealth
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