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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1920
Page
7
An agricultural column urges having fertilizers ready for drought, favoring pulverized sheep manure and dried poultry manure as practical, low-odor options. It notes balanced formulae mixes, blood and bone for cabbages, nitrate of soda for beets onions and other vegetables, and shredded cattle manure as lawn mulch.
A humorous tale describes Yon Brown, Ole Oleson, and Yon Yonson who report that they will pay when they sell their wheat or oats, with Yon Yonson stating January as the due month. The proprietor is surprised by the unspecified date and the cold day mentioned.
In Georgia a politician courting district votes recalls starting life in a general store for $3 a week and saving money. A sharp auditor interrupts with a quip asking if that was before they invented the cash register.
A man tells his doctor his hair is falling out and asks for a treatment. The doctor replies with a humorous plan offering a simple old pill box to keep hair in.
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