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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1918
Page
10
Take our advice and buy now what you need from McCormick mowers binders Hamilton harrows and more in the implements line. Goods are scarce and waiting risks not obtaining desired items this spring. We will hold your selection until you need it.
Relatives report Sylvester E. Kelly of this city has joined the United States Marines and is stationed at Vallejo California. Frank and Norbert Shannon sons of the late Pat Shannon formerly Mt Jailer now training with Marines near Seattle. Carroll Kelly, previously approved to join Marines, has entered aviation training at a western field. The piece ends with a public debate on sacrifice between patriotism and appetite.
March Popular Mechanics details nearly a hundred ships seized from Germany now serving with the United States Navy. It notes crews sabotaged vessels but the Navy repaired them, exposing extensive anti German vandalism and repair mastery. The piece also mocks a farmer feeding wheat to hogs and reports 2001 men exempted as morally deficient under a presidential regulation.
A Pershing era report praises American troops in France for dispelling the German bogey. It argues U S soldiers are dynamic individuals not mere cogs and will defeat German arrogance with bullets and resolve. Berlin labor strife and calls to strike echo amid war chatter.
A reader argues for a universal income tax as a fair share of government maintenance and questions arbitrary limits on taxation. The piece notes past shifts from indirect to direct taxes and suggests Americans reexamine their vital relationship to government. It closes with a quip about camp illness and a sheriff-like caption from N. H. Trimble and W. S. S.
A Ringgold Georgia family credits Thedford's Black-Draught as a long used medicine for stomach liver and bowel troubles. The mother gave it to children for headaches from constipation and spring illnesses like malaria. The note claims it saved doctor bills and reduces days in bed by aiding liver function.
A period advertisement extols Dean's Kidney Pills with a testimonial from Mrs. L. B. Wren of 117 Locust St claiming relief from backache and kidney symptoms after using the product. Price 60c at dealers. Also mentions wartime political notes, a Kaiser worry, and a room-for-rent ad in a single mixed-page snippet.
Postmaster General Burleson raises parcel post weights effective March 15. Packages in first to third zones may weigh up to seventy pounds, previously fifty. All other zones rise from twenty to fifty pounds.
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