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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1913
Page
4
The tale from 1890 tells of engineer Tom Cypher's ghost aboard locomotive No 33 near Eagle Gorge in the Cascades. Reported sightings involve the train stopping at peril then the headlight retreating as if driven backward. Sightings path into Sprague fed the legend.
A renowned food expert and medical man argues feeding the human body is as simple as fueling a locomotive. He says a practical diet is plain, moderate, and enjoyable, not a complex theory or fad. Eat plain food regularly and it will digest properly, converting into heat, thought, and motion.
Beekeeping in Siberia thrives among peasants and wild forest swarms. Bee masters range from few to hundreds of swarms, with bee lords owning five to six hundred. Average annual income per swarm is about a ruble and a half, buckwheat used as pasture in some areas, bees largely feed on wild blossoms along forest borders.
The African egg eater swallows eggs three times its body diameter. Its jaws are nearly toothless but a few hooks enable it to grip eggs. A row of bone points slices shells as the egg passes, preventing waste. All snakes eat eggs and nest robbers, with the blacksnake noted for this behavior.
A fragment from a Brooklyn-dale piece shows Ideals. He kisses her hand she withdraws reproachfully and says she thought him a young man with meals and then adds she expected him to aim higher. He apologizes and resolves anew.
Correspondence from James Kendall reports Miss Eva Mark visiting Miss Ova Ragland near Winchester. Uncle Peter Lee of Grassy Lick is dangerously ill. Tobacco crops look poor as two good harvests were seen in thirty miles. Magisterial race between Henry and Hutchison expected to heat up. thermometer 98. William Doane returns from Montana. Mrs Gippenton and Mrs John G Crouch visit for weeks. Severe wind and lightning caused barn damage.
Rains refreshed crops and gardens as residents weed and cut meadows. A tent meeting near Camargo drew a large crowd with conversions at Owingsville led by Wm Triplet. Howard Stevenson returns to Illinois after visiting family. planning to come back this fall. Mrs Katie Haggard and daughter of Missouri along with Mrs Lucretia Rupard of Clark County visit Mrs W W Stevenson this week.
Threshing is nearly done with most wheat sold at 90c per bushel. Oats yield a fine crop. Virgie Kissick of Little Rock visited Leona Conn. Geo. W. Young of Olympia and Mrs. John O. Crouch of Montana visited relatives here. Fair week promises a good time. James Hicks is ill. Lightning burned two rye stacks at R E Tipton’s farm. Edward J McDermott is seen as future Kentucky governor. Birth: July 17 Eugene Roberts to Albert Norris and Bertha Foley. Cynthia Williams returns to Owingsville from with Ed Toy’s residence. Harvey Hunt and wife return from Platte County, Missouri. A near cyclone struck here Saturday.
Corn and tobacco suffered severe damage while hay stacks were blown apart and every telephone line was knocked out. Roy Byrd and wife visited Bethel Spoday, Thos Satterfield and wife visited Owingsville, the Stoops colored team beat Stepstone by a near century score, Will F Turner and wife from Indiana visited relatives at Bunker Hill.
An unusual notice from Towanda, Pennsylvania, seeks a wife for Erwin McCoon. He requests a white woman aged 25 to 35 who has not joined Christian societies and will renounce them to live in love and obedience. He promises love, protection, and a final say in judgments.
Punch Graves & Co. advertise wash suits for children at reduced prices. The notice highlights affordable styles and sizes aimed at families seeking practical summer wear.
The Postmaster General announces upcoming parcel post rate cuts. First zone rates drop to 5 cents for the first pound and 1 cent for each additional two pounds up to twenty, with weight limit rising to twenty pounds. Second zone drops to 5 cents for the first pound and 1 cent for each additional up to twenty. Effective August 15, more reductions to follow. Parcel post use expected to rise as ordinary stamps become usable on packages. Parcel post growth already exceeds expectations and will be boosted by the reform.
New York Press interviews a health department bacteriologist about the danger of releasing disease germs. He says a bottle broken or germs scattered would cause little lasting harm, with sunlight and blood entry required for illness and only a small risk to the public.
County Clerk Keller Greene notes an exceptionally heavy registration last Saturday with 79 Democrats and 3 Republicans registered. Additionally 29 Democrats and 1 Republican transferred between wards, marking the heaviest supplemental registration in years.
An old Scottish couple famed for thrift keep a strict match rule for lighting the fire. When one morning’s single match fails, the servant asks for another. In a whispered conference the wife asks to risk the girl with a new match, and the husband agrees but insists they inspect the one used the night before.
The Staffordshire lake near Rudyard gave Rudyard Kipling his name after a meeting for a marriage between Lockwood Kipling, a Stoke pottery designer, and Miss Macdonald, daughter of a Wesleyan minister from Burslem. Their union linked nearby artists Burne Jones and Poynter through the minister’s daughters.
The editor warns against retracting a previous letter as the youth admits reconsidering sending any future work. The editor notes the very letter was the subject of discussion and discourages retreat.
A long standing bachelor dies and bequeaths his entire estate to the woman who rejected him, creating a noted twist of fate. Police or legal notices may follow as executors settle the estate.
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