Soldier Letter from Edward Dargoo in AEF Service
In May 1918 Edward Dargoo of Mt. Sterling Kentucky writes from France to his mother about good health and pleasant weather. He mentions being photographed, awaiting more pictures, limited time for tying, and hopes to see more of the country before returning home. He notes enlistment in May and arrival in France last October as part of Company 2nd Reg U S Engrs AEF.
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Jake Dragoo
High Street
Mt. Sterling
Tam
Kentucky dogs listed for property assessment act
The 1918 Kentucky Legislature passed a law requiring all dogs to be listed with the assessor for property assessments with license and tags issued by the county clerk. Penalties up to 100 dollars or three months imprisonment apply for noncompliance or other violations. The owner includes anyone with property rights or care of the dog. Citizens urged to rigidly enforce the measure. Also short notices advertise a gentle riding mare for sale and the Advocate for printing.
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Kentucky
Record of Kentucky Farm Trade and Notable Livestock Sale
Farmers, stockmen and real estate men urged to report land and livestock deals. The Col E H Taylor Jr Hereford sale in Woodford County set a national record with 62 head totaling 186,850 dollars, average 3,014 dollars. Brooksmead Dorothy led milk tests at 14,1794.4 pounds and 742.08 pounds butter fat. In Hopkinsville tobacco brought a record 100 dollars per hundred pounds, bought by Walter William and donated to the Red Cross.
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Advocate Office
Col. E. H. Taylor, Jr
Woodford County
United States
Frankfort
Kentucky
Brooksmead
Dorothy
Frank Graham Thomson
Devon
Hopkinsville
Walter William
Red Cross
Local farmers report varied sales from cattle to lambs across Kentucky and Ontario
Buyers and sellers from Kentucky and Ontario announce numerous livestock and farm real estate deals. E T Spence and J N Carter trade horses and lambs, Caywood and McClintock ship 500 lambs to New York, and large land parcels change hands in Madison Boyle and Danville areas. A Seaboard sale in Ontario lists Shorthorns averaging 810, while a Kentucky mule sale donates half the price to Red Cross.
Hogs and Cattle Prices From Lexington Fair
Isom Brothers sold Clell Coleman thirty 150 pound hogs at 160 cents. Clemmons Brothers sold thirty-nine 1,300 pound cattle the past week to Clell Coleman at 14 cents a pound. Seventy-five Hereford cattle owned by James V. Hill were sold at Tattersall stables at Lexington fair grounds for an average of 615 dollars per head totaling 46 125. The day’s top price went to Donna Perfection.
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Isom Brothers
Clell Coleman
Clemmons Brothers
Hereford
James V. Hill
Round Head
Tattersall
Fair Grounds
Lexington
Donna Perfection
Hall's Catarrh Remedy Ad Affidavit Claim
State of Ohio Toledo Lucas County sworn statement by Frank J Cheney senior partner of F J Cheney Co that the firm will pay one hundred dollars for every case of catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Medicine. Affidavit sworn before a notary public in Toledo Ohio.
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State of Ohio
Toledo
Lucas County
Frank J. Cheney
F. J. Cheney & Co
HALL
Catarru Medi Bank
J. Cheney
Perth Batt & CO
Farm sales notes include cattle and Holstein purchases
The notice lists sales by Maple Knoll Farm owner Howard D. Seely to John D. Rockefeller of three pure bred Holstein cows, each giving two cans of milk daily, plus other livestock moves such as 28 lambs at 17 cents and 30 cattle at 14 cents a pound to be delivered July 10. It also mentions a saddle mare sold to J H Carrier and several advertising lines from R E PunchCo and W S.
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E. T. Pence, Jr
Sam Harris
Rigsby & Thompson
J. D. Whitehouse
Lick
Howard D. Seely
Maple Knoll Farm
Goshen- Chester State Road
John D. Rockefeller
Tarrytown
New York
Mr. Rockefeller
Mr. Seely
Portuguese engineer heralds long range gun to reach Kaiser
A Portuguese inventor unveils a gun capable of a 90 mile shell. He says a 150 mile weapon will be needed to hit the Kaiser. He claims invincibility in peace while battle rages. His six sons follow in his footsteps. Mark the prediction that by next April letters from the victorious boys will be dated Somewhere in Germany.
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Germany
Also Mentioned on This Page
Wyatt School of Business
Elizabeth Wyatt
Edward
D. Dargoo
U. S
A. BE. F
Dargoo
Une
France
R. E. Punch & CO
Commissioner of Agriculture
O. B. Clark
the Advocate For Printing
Mi ” T. Sterling
Firs Tiel Lde
Reem
Monster
Miek Tha
Nate
ATL Uy
Priest Drug Store
Ketucky
Stanford
E. T. Spence, Sr
Luther Johnson
J. N. Carter
Ed Sears
T. J. Hills, Sr
Perk Hamilton
Caywood & McClintock
Bourbon County
John Shearer
John Reymond
Boysville
Madison County
A. B. Massey
Danville
Col
J. M. Dunn
J. C. Caldwell
Frank Robinson
Walter Dunn
J. Lee Murphy
Speyer & Son
Boone County
Walton
Guelph
Ontario
J. A. Watt
J. M. Gardhouse
E. H. Taylor
Owenton, Ky
Pack Munson
Owenton
Jake Rees
Tudor & Son
Iowa City
Aberdeen-Angus Cettle
Blackbird Peer
E. W. C. Edwards
Court House
Edwards Mill
W. T. Dougherty
Granville
Greeley
Casey
Lincoln Counties
P. S. Neale
Cecil Davis
Mercer
Joseph Muir
Bardstown
Mr. Davis
W. M. Matheney
Lincoln County
Center Bros
Paint
Harrodsburg
Michelin Tires
Michelin
House of Michelin
the Strother Motors Co., Inc
J. Hi. Carrier
East Bernstadt
Laurel County
Jerome M. Cotton
W. S
Broadway
America
W. Ss
W.H. Wright
Willys-Knight
Overland
Chevrolet
L. E. Griggs
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