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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1919
Page
9
The Advocate reports its growing advertiser base has required larger issues and hints at a possible move to semi weekly publication. Management notes the aim to keep FIRST in circulation, FIRST in news and FIRST in advertising while serving advertisers.
A notice from Frenchburg Kentucky authorized by Judge Thos L Candel announces his candidacy for the 90th District in the upcoming August primary. He claims to have opposed a controversial tax law and pledges to repeal or replace it with a fair system if reelected, promising further public statements on key issues.
The Louisville Post notes no Democratic governor candidate yet and highlights three contenders Judge Carroll Lt. Gov. Black and Prof. Cherry. It criticizes Carroll for tax stance and campaign manager ties, flags Black for past favors and a lobbyist pass, and cites Cherry’s past withdrawal while predicting shifts as liquor interests connect to politics. It urges a reformer who will expose graft and extravagance and questions potential candidates Denhardt or Wilson, who have not announced.
In Piccadilly London the district's name is linked to turn over collars called piccadillies. Tailor Higgins profited selling these garments and built a home in the area in 168% on the way to Neendilly hall, giving the place its distinctive appellation.
New York City Y W C A opens Foreign Trade courses for American women. Classes cover shipping filing orders trade acceptances tariff consular documents insurance mail order trade and other international work once dominated by men. South America jobs attract many registrants seeking world travel and financial independence.
A listing highlights film programs featuring The Fighting Roosevelts and Our Teddy with Holmes travels in Viva La France and Dorothy Dalton. Earle Williams stars in The Lightning Raider in the week’s theater lineup.
Stage notes announce Ethel Clayton stars in The Girl Who Came Back on Monday. The cast and venue details appear in the theater listing with show time and location.
The notice outlines a Tuesday April 1 program titled Katy Did staged under school auspices at a local high school, presenting student performances and a community audience.
Doctor S leeby urges a new Ministry of Health department for recreation. It would organize London choirs and choral societies to engage all in singing, keeping youths off streets and out of saloons. Musicians discuss a confederation to direct masses in national rejoicings rather than armistice night excess.
Mayor Woodman lauds the merger of two telephone networks as a wonderful improvement. He recalls the old era when a call woke someone at three in the morning, only to find the line idle, joking about the new, responsive system and Central’s learned courtesy.
The United States average egg production is 85 eggs. White Leghorns yield 120 eggs in year one and two, 110 in year three, 85 in year four, then decline about ten eggs annually to year eight. The Utah experiment station bulletin notes that if year one is below year two, the three year total will be similar, and vice versa.
The Louisville Courier Journal notes Kipling’s fame has waned since its peak. Fewer readers connect with his classic figures like Bar Dolph, Nym and Pistol and Soldiers Three. The critic says his rough verse was topical and his later songs diminished his standing.
The piece notes seventh century pens were feather made yet reed pens on parchment persisted long after quills. It cites St Ode and the ancient habit of carrying a pen behind the ear as shown in his life.
On Trinidad island a lizard farm furnishes equipment for breeding reptiles used by sugar planters. A broader search for tools to increase the world's sugar output is underway alongside this enterprise.
The article notes that most poorer clans in Italy show general good health. It attributes this to the working people eating meat in any other bourgeois context.
A young woman recounts walking home in Petrograd as a pale uniformed officer shadows her. He pleads for food, mentions hunger after two days without a bite, and she slips him money before offering coffee and bread. He declines, fearing discovery, and vanishes into darkness.
The Canadian Cou rier calls Stefansson a Canadian Icelander born in Manitoba and credits him with proving Canada’s independent claim to Arctic exploration. It asserts Canada holds the world’s Arctic coast line, with Russia and Scandinavia lacking comparable reach, and notes Canada’s right of eminent domain marked by the British flag. The piece envisions trade opportunities as muskox commercialization extends inland.
The Cullingan diamond weighs 3025 grains uncut and the Jager stone, a soft blue white near perfect, is said to be 388 carats in the mine finding on the Orange river. Cutting may alter the final weight drastically. Historic stones range from Kohinoor at 106 carats to the Nizam at 277 carats.
The Metz fortress town recalls La Muta the cathedral bell that rang in 1870 and symbolized deliverance. The bell, famed for four centuries, has rung through joys and sorrows and remains a Lorraine landmark for Messins.
A fragment hints at a conversation about singing and a stubborn Uncle RM Battletop who vows to warble despite prohibition. The odd dialogue suggests a humorous or rural setting where music and rebellion mix in a folksy exchange.
The passage traces the romantic appeal of sea climbs in art and literature. It cites Claude Lorain’s painting The Landing of Cleopatra at Tarsus, Turner’s Old Téméraire, Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus, and Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra as works capturing daring maritime feats and heroic naval moments.
The article describes how a historic cook valued both flower and kitchen gardens. Herbs such as thyme rosemary and basil were gathered. flowers like rose violet and primrose were used for color in syrups and custards while roots and buds were pickled.
A London Chronicle correspondent notes the coldest city spot is the open tube lift hanging at the descent. He praises liftmen who endure the icy blast as warm tubes below add a keen edge. The piece laments liftmen’s mortality and their rare appearance inside the lift.
The passage tours Las Palmas on Grand Canary and a rare detour to Teneriffe. It contrasts brown thirsty hills behind the town with green gorges on Teneriffe and a peak that inspires mythic views when mist lifts.
The term crater derives from the trench term for a hole and was borrowed in warfare language. The word’s root traces to the volcano throat and to the ancient mixing bowls used to blend water with wine.
Education is viewed as spiritual enlightenment, ceaseless and eternal rather than merely intellectual. The true system uncovers facts as revelations to the learner, forming enduring laws that dispel mental darkness and reveal real power and opportunity.
A vivid warning urges readers to avoid a malevolent “grouch” that can seize the mind. It counsels extreme measures from changing routines to seeking baths and even golf to escape the danger, claiming only heavenly aid remains once it takes hold.
A dated method describes removing a lead bullet stuck in a gun barrel. It suggests plugging one end with a cork, pouring mercury inside, resealing, then tilting and rolling the firearm to loosen and eject the bullet.
Columbus special reports Bishop William F. McDowell urging Methodists to remake the world’s mind faith and ideals as the Centenary seeks 50 000 minute men to back a massive fundraising push. He warns of Mohammedan and Japanese threats and cites evangelization as a defense of civilization.
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