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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1919
Page
5
The piece argues that two years earlier the nation nearly ratified prohibition and predicts a dry nation by January. It cites the war as accelerating prohibition and urges shared responsibility while noting the positive local effects of stopping saloon culture despite concerns about property and crime.
For the first time in the history of the Church of England in China a Chinese bishop was consecrated. Archdeacon T. Shen received the rite at Our Savior Church Shanghai with Bishops Molony Norris Graves and others in attendance from Anglican and neighboring churches.
In a Cape Shima village where pearl fishing is the women’s craft the matriarchal shift led to men being banished from homes. Girls dive from age four and women dominate the trade. Men complain to parliament as the sexes remain at odds over housework and diving duties.
A fragment notes rumors of a rift within the Hohen vslern family. It mentions alleged refusals to speak and suggests that attitudes toward war may be a factor amid restrained commentary.
The Advocate notes Y M C A efforts in Europe with over three thousand secretaries and more than one thousand French civilians assisting in about fifteen hundred huts and stations. By August 1 there were over fifty casualties, eleven killed on duty, among ministers and workers, with damage blamed partly on Lexington liquor. It argues National Prohibition will be a great blessing once enforced.
Lieut Sydnor Harrison recalls seasickness as a dreadful malady. A doughboy aboard a transport to France is roused from seasick stupor by a corporal who warns of torpedoed danger. The amused reply asks to hurry the sinking ship a bit faster.
A World War I era letter from Sergeant Milton F. Brandenburg in France asks Edwin C. Brandenburg about a personal doubt touching family. The lines reveal anxious wishes over a name comparison between "Jeff" and "Matt" and reflect wartime concern and morale.
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