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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1912
Page
3
Train schedule fragment shows west bound service effective May 28 1911. Includes timetable headings with origin destination and routing notes. Limited readable details but indicates updated departures arrivals and sequence for westbound trains.
Schedule notice lists train connections at Lexington for Louisville via L and N, at Winchester for Cincinnati via L and N, and at Campton Beattyville and Cannes City with Mountain Central Ky and Ohio and Kentucky railways. Trains 1 2 3 4 connect to respective lines at Campton Junction Beattyville Junction and O and K Junction.
The Parker Shows announce a major Lexington visit for the Blue Grass Fair August 7 to 12 with 580 performers aboard a private train, a 35 car fleet, three electric plants, and 18 attractions led by Chefalo and Bertini. The program includes Arabia the horse, Pharaohs Daughter, The Death Trap Loop, a 90 foot tower act, a Phantom Maiden illusion, a Wild Animal Circus, Rice Bros musical troupe, and a $10,000 Carry-Us-All. The company promotes clean, moral entertainment and promises top-tier novelty and spectacle daily.
The Blue Grass Fair will host a decorated floral parade of automobiles on Monday morning August 12 with 100 or more cars expected. Large cash prizes will be awarded and the event is open to all. For design details and prizes contact Secretary John W. Bain in Lexington Kentucky.
The piece argues morality shifts with social systems from aristocratic to bourgeois to working-class influence. It notes bourgeois ethics focus on security over life enhancement, and foresees future morals blending values from all three groups while discarding arbitrary excess.
A Collier's letter recounts a buyer swindled by advertised wildcat mines and a promoter scheme. He trusted this newspaper after years of reading, bought traction stock at 82 a share, faced losses as the paper attacked the firm, then invested in United Wireless and watched the promoter group jailed while the traction company recovered and paid dividends.
Laird, Schober and Co. offer slippers at reduced prices. Formerly five and six dollars, the sale price is three dollars and forty eight cents for this season’s goods. Punch and Graves handles the merchandise.
A reflection on how strict routines can ossify life and limit growth. The piece cites an Eastern State farmer couple stuck near home for decades and argues that breaking habits occasionally fosters elasticity, learning, and true freedom. It warns against dwelling in a like grove where errors are avoided but progress stalls.
The best that's made in carpets furniture and rugs. W. A. Sutton and Son promotes quality floor coverings and home furnishings.
An accused man facing a robbery case was discharged by the judge after insufficient evidence. The court told him he was free, leaving the prisoner stunned and unsure how to proceed. He asked if he must return the victim’s watch and chain.
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