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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1919
Page
8
Numerous classified notices offer real estate for sale including 86 acres near Sharpsburg and a Winn Street lot, plus a six room bungalow and various buildings. Also listed are pianos, refrigerators, screens, wall papers, and other home goods for sale or trade. Multiple rental offers and service ads appear for Lexington and Mt Sterling areas with contact names and addresses.
An advertisement entitles Mrs Keller Greene to a free ticket to the Table Theatre on Wednesday night upon presenting this notice at the box office. A. E. Lawrence promotes their work, offering careful attention to new and repair jobs with phone or in-person contact.
Local classified ads showcase real estate listings and services in Lexington and surrounding towns. Bryson Farm Agency promotes farms and Burley Tobacco Belt property in Carlisle Kentucky. Cravens Turpin and other firms advertise homes, farms, city property, refrigerators, freight services, and automotive outlets with contact details.
Foodstuffs meats and groceries home grown produce and plant seedlings. Help wanted seeds gardening farming knowledge market gardens preferred. Carpenters boat builders joiners and other trades for yacht work. Beef pork and bacon specials and sales offers. Autos and tires discounts at Strother Motor Co J R Lyons selling a Maxwell car and auto services. Touring cars with licensed drivers from Ragan Gay Garage.
Classified car ads promote Hupmobile agents taxi service and auto parts stores in Lexington, with offers on tires batteries radiators and Harley Davidson motorcycles. Local garages advertise service centers, train-train pickup, and country trip specials. A stray line refers to a personal note about a marriage.
The ad touts K. U. Tablets as nerve and stomach tonics to relieve aches and fatigue after influenza. Claims top physicians use them and urges home use. Sold in 10¢ and 25¢ boxes by druggists and grocers, from the K. U. Chemical Company Lexington.
Mr Andy Wills and others submitted unusually long samples of bluegrass grass lengths. Wills presented 55 inch lengths last week and 65 inch samples on Monday. W F Henry reported 56.4 and 60 inch lengths, while A C Bogie produced 57.1 inch samples.
The Wom an's History Club hosted a brilliant musicale last week with performances by Mrs. Thomas Robertson Bethel Georges Vagnell from Lexington College of Music Mrs. John Burbridge Mrs. Roger Drake Miss Minnie Graves and Mrs. Henry Reid delivering the program in a social season highlight.
City health board orders all dogs removed from city limits at once and closets cleaned per law, or penalties will follow. Notice dated June 2, 1919.
Over the past week many local macadam streets were oiled using funds from property owners. The oiling, though dusty and annoying at first, is described as a progressive measure to reduce dust.
The Liberty Society of the 6th 7th and 8th grades held a smiles social last week under the supervision of Miss June Barnes at the county high school.
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