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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1915
Page
4
Voters are shown a slate listing candidates for the first second and third districts with C W McCormick T J Thomas and T C Quisenberry C L Dean and A L Tipton E B Quisenberry for the districts. Henry M Ringo John S Duty John Gibbons James C Tipton and R F Mastin seek city clerk. C B Patterson is the city treasurer and W T Fitzpatrick Jr is the city assessor.
Last week a call to arms urged law abiding citizens to back officers and enforce the local option law. Citizens pledged readiness by letters and calls, with pulpits endorsing the movement. The author urges arrest of offenders and extreme penalties to deter violations and suggests forming a law and order league.
A child named Johnny struggles to dress an undershirt and asks his mother how he will put on clothes when he becomes an angel with wings, provoking a humorous exchange about future difficulties.
For a nice steak roast or ham call Van Arsdell. Local ad text promotes meat offerings and contact for purchase.
A terse exchange over pausing the conflict ends with rejection as both sides clash on time and patience. The dialogue hints at a stalled process and growing frustration amid ongoing hostilities.
The text reviews Dr. Murray Levick’s study of Antarctic penguins from the Scott expedition. It describes the penguin’s comical appearance and conical figure as imagined in his book The Antarctic Penguins, and outlines their annual migrations, breeding behavior, nest building, and courtship rituals involving pebbles.
A London Tit Bits tale recalls a young Howland accused by his merchant uncle of stealing a £50 note. Though it was never proven he possessed or cashed it, he was convicted and executed amid suspicions. Years later the note was found hidden in a library chimney recess.
The first Japanese in America was Man jiro Nakahama a fourteen year old boy picked up by an American ship in the north Pacific. He and companions faced a storm and desert island hardship before rescue by U S sailors. Nakahama settled in the United States and later served as interpreter for Commodore Perry in negotiations with Japan.
A New York lawyer cited a cruel legal decision during a dinner remark. He compared the ruling to a Bayside cook serving a tramp with a cake of soap after he pleaded for a small wedge of pie. The quip framed the decision as harsh and merciless.
A South London board school pupil answers the teacher’s question about India’s chief food with the word famine. The anecdote echoes Artemus Ward in its witty irrelevance and shows how newspaper memory influences a child’s response.
A frightened child named Ollie asks why they cannot have plain rain after a thunder shower. Her father explains rain helps the grass and flowers, encouraging calm with reassurance about the weather.
Story notes Luther Burbank jokingly describes attempting to cross an eggplant and milkweed to yield custard pie. The item sits among ads for Best Home Killed beef and various seeds at Greenwade's, with a moral quote on sympathy from Emerson and a tease about a cornet method offered by a Boston publisher.
The Kentucky Illiteracy Commission launches the Speakers Campaign Against Illiteracy for July August and September led by the Governor. One hundred and twenty top orators will visit every county with local districts and school campaigns culminating in a final rally.
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