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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1915
Page
2
Encouragement to focus on virtue and positive deeds. Emphasizes seeking beautiful love, friendship, and charities to uplift self and humanity. Encourages optimistic effort and joyful perseverance in the face of troubles.
Mount Sterling residents endorse Dean's Kidney Pills for kidney weakness and back pain. Mrs. C. C. Schooler of 4 Jamison St. reports relief after using Doan's Kidney Pills bought at Duerson's Drug Store. Price 50c, Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo, N Y.
The piece notes a pretty Elizabeth town girl nicknamed the crimson ram bler for her roaming. references the Oklahoma Supreme Court striking the grandfather clause. editor Elkins jokes about scenery and Olympia Springs. social commentary and road plans are cited alongside light quips and a tea advertisement from Vanarsdell's.
The report describes the spread of centralized schooling across northern Ohio including Trumbull, Ashtabula, Lake, and Portage counties. It notes that centralization is a matter of education, compares Ohio and Massachusetts timelines, and explains township level organization with a nine to fourteen member board and elected township superintendent.
The Snagtown Torchlight reports a singer leaving town after a brief Hot Water stay, taking a sorghum mill job on Peavine Ridge to stop fly holes. A town hall mass meeting condemns flies with W C Herman leading the denunciation. John Dashner to pat for a Bull Creek dance. An old miser from Bear Mountain occupies a deserted cabin near Coon Creek. A posse rescues a mule trapped by grape vines under a tree on Peavine Ridge. Rattlesnake Ford church members move but keep ties, preacher told to ring bells louder. Prof Lin Roberts notes the moonlight Excelsior Fiddling Band practicing for an upcoming picnic. Mitchell Sullivan leaves State University for a New York post, seen as poised for rapid advancement.
Preparations are under way for union services by local churches. Evening services are expected in the Courthouse yard, the coolest city site. The first service is planned for Sunday evening July 4. Some family trees should be pruned, a nod to humorous local witticism.
The notice states a transfer by J Ww Baber with a contact phone number 840 and registration 87 tf.
The poem urges optimism and effort, saying the best is ahead and chances begin now. It links home ethics to broader social virtue, noting character, education, and family relations shape civilization while ending with an ad for Vanarsdell's produce.
Washington government clerks are urged to pay debts or resign with a plank metaphor. The memo notes salaries remain fixed in good or bad times and argues salaried workers must live within means, unlike irregularly paid mechanics.
The piece promotes White Eagle's Rattlesnake Oil Liniment and White Eagle's Herbs, with testimonials from Cordelia Aspberry and Prestonsburg mayor praising cures for rheumatism and kidney troubles. It touts 50c per bottle for oil and $1.00 for herbs, sold by Druggist F. C. Duerson in Mt. Sterling, Kentucky.
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