Local Correspondence from Stoops and Nearby Areas
Tobacco acreage tops well with favorable weather promising hay harvest this week. Corn brings 3.00 a barrel for fine fields. Mrs Maude Sanders hosts Miss Virgie Kissick of Little Rock. Numerous local visits noted including Sears, Fassett, Metcalfe and Warner families amidst community social events. Elopement of Lientrell Warner and Lena Fassett reported with praise for couple. Levee and Stoops teams tied at Sewell's Shop game before darkness ends play.
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Coburn Hamilton
Owingsville
Alf Moore
Sewell
Stoops
Barnard
Touglass
McDonald
Stull
McCarty
Look Them Over The Liquor Interests Seek County Unit Support
The Big Sandy News urges voters to inspect each candidate in the Kentucky Governor race. It warns liquor interests back county unit laws to keep dry counties and ship liquor into dry areas.
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Kentucky
Big Sandy
Opcimist: A man who does not coin what happens to him
Brief zinger defining an optimist as a person who imagines events favoring others while remaining unaffected when misfortune befalls them, implying selective concern and self interest in outcome.
Sealed bids sought for 35 span bridge in Bourbon Montgomery Ky
Bourbon county invites bids by August 7 1915 for a 35 span bridge over a branch on Plum Lick road between Bourbon and Montgomery counties. Bids must use county forms with 5 percent certified checks and bonds of 50 percent. Contents include superstructure substructure fills macadam works and a lump bid for full structure ready for traffic. Ben F. Bedford Road Engineer.
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Paris
Bourbon County
Mt. Sterling
Montgomery County
Bourbon
Montgomery
Plum Lick Road
Ben F. Bedford
Stanley Praises Wilson in Speech Said to Seek Political Ride
Shelby News notes Stanley lavished praise on President Wilson and suggested riding on the President's influence to seek office. The remark implies a strategy of aligning closely with Wilson to gain political advantage.
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Stanley
Wilson
Shelby News
If You Make Good You Won’t Need to Make Excuses
A compact admonition urges self discipline and accountability. It promotes taking responsibility for actions rather than offering excuses.
Roads as investments in farm value and transport costs
An article by H. M. Williams of Lima argues roads boost land prices and farm output. It cites Jackson county Alabama bond funding raising land values from 6 to 15 dollars per acre after road work, and Dinwiddie Virginia tobacco loads rising from 1200 to 4000 pounds. It notes wheat shipping costs to Liverpool and Tennessee improvements cutting hauling costs, urging Kentucky counties to follow suit.
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Lee County
Virginia
Ben Hur
Jonesville
Dinwiddie
New York
Liverpool
Williams
Jefferson County
Kentucky
Courier-Journal
Let the People Rule On Statewide Prohibition
A Winchester Democrat editorial argues that the Democratic party should reflect the people's will on statewide prohibition. If a constitutional amendment is submitted and a majority vote yes, it should be enacted. if the majority vote no, it should be rejected.
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Democratic Party
Kentucky
Winchester Democrat
Mirrors of Others Reflecting Opinions Without Own View
A reflection on people who imitate others' views without forming their own. The piece frames them as passive vessels echoing external judgments rather than independent thinkers.
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B. M. Goodan
Russell Roberts
Winchester
Omar
Everett Tay
Ora Rankin
Ora Metcalfe
R. E. Tipton
Lientrell Warner
Lena Fassett
Ironton, O
Thos. W. Fassett
Thos. Warner
Julie Metcalfe
Maude Dawson
Bert Sanders
Roy
Poplar Plains
Fleming County
The
John Ff. Blount
J. P. Sullivan
Walsh
Hamburger Bros
Stein-Bloch
Knox
Stetson
W. L. Douglas
Manhattan
Wilson Bros
Eclipse
Fownes
Dents
Paragon
Mr. Sterling
Oldham
Oidham Store
A. B. Oldham & CO
Tennessee
R. H. White & Co
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