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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1913
Page
7
An advertisement urges buyers to purchase fruit trees directly from the seller to avoid unreliable agents. It touts Win trees as well known nationwide and promises a broad nursery line, while asking for agents in every county.
Record laying Rose Comb Rhode Island Red eggs offered for hatching by Ben R Turner. Prize-winning stock. Contact 130 for details.
G C Anderson announces a Blacksmith and Repair Shop connected to his Livery and Sale Barn on West High Street opposite T J Thomas. He promotes rubber tire installation at lower prices using Goodyear Wing Victor and Kelley Springfield tires and invites friends to call. Cottage for rent on Clay Street listed with Mrs J E Thompson. Laughlin Co sells remaining harness department and continues tin and plumbing business.
An 1913 notice from Greenbriar Stock Farm proclaims a premium saddle stallion insured at twenty dollars. Describes the horse as the equal of any show horse and from distinguished show families. Promotes breeding quality and success through the fair circuit.
No. 1 large heavy boned jack sired by the $1100 Gillispie jack to insure live foul. See bits stock and get cards with full description. Business solicited. Mt. Sterling Kentucky. Rk. o Phone 059A.
Mt Sterling resident Mrs. C Schooler praises Doan’s Kidney Pills after family use with strong results. She notes kidney and back pains improved after taking pills from Duerson’s drug store. Product sold by all dealers at 50 cents. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sole US agents. Remember the name Doan’s.
Advertising snippet lists Vanarsdell's meat offerings with price focus and promotions. Mentions Equity fertilizer and Laughlin Company for tin and plumbing work. Provides contact details Roy L. Morris as agent and phone numbers 147 and 31.
Trade in mules and jacks dominates the Blue Grass Journal item with buyers from Bath Bourbon Nicholas and Wolfe counties purchasing multiple pairs. Prices range from 140 to 900 dollars for various aged beasts including a standout nine year old black jack at 900 and a premier jack at 154 hands high. A 1913 sale in Missouri reported 35 jacks averaging 671 dollars and 20 jennets averaging 300 dollars with top price 1540 for Buster Mammoth.
Over five hundred horses will be in training at the Lexington track by May 1st and stallion advertising is urged in Turriuore Grass JOURNAL. Nancy Hanks will be mated to The Tramp in Kentucky. J. F. Hart lists mares bred to J. Malcolm Forbes and Peter Montgomery, a black stallion from Bean Brothers. Baron Wilkes died aged 381 years. W. O. Foote aims for the Grand Circuit with several trotters. Clem Beachy buys a Forbes colt. Walter Cox races Lady Grattan. Joan Utterback returns to Lexington with a full stable.
A mother in Long Branch New Jersey reports her fourteen year old daughter with a bad cough, nervousness and poor appetite improved dramatically after using Vinci cod liver and iron tonic. She credits better sleep weight gain and restored health and urges mothers to try Vinci. The ad promises money back if there is no benefit and cites Mt Sterling Kentucky as a source.
Local notice promotes Van Antwerp Farms Kentucky land on West High street with good frontage suitable for chickens or a garden. Encourages group purchase of five to six buyers at ten percent off and liberal terms from H Van Antwerp.
For sale cheap items include first-class bug gies runabouts farm implements a Kurtz piano and 75 bushels of potatoes. Call to view at Ricketts & McCormick. Also Spot Cash Grocery offers largest selection of 1c and 5c Easter Cards.
Small two wheel push cart in good condition offered by Office Advocate Pub Co. Apply in person at the publisher’s office for purchase details and availability.
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