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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1912
Page
8
An advertisement promotes Edward P Remingtons 1912 Newspaper Directory listing US Canada Mexico papers by state and town with census data and publication details. It notes price five dollars prepaid and stresses the directory as a handy reference for newspapers and periodicals.
A spotlight on Valentine Vousden a popular 1860s Irish songster and impersonator. The piece recalls his ballad Let each man learn to know himself and urges self examination before judging others. It notes other titles like The Irish Jaunting Car and Do Me Justice Treat Me Fair and mentions S. E. Kelly & Co. as an advertiser.
Wheat looks up and corn planted by early birds. Bob Oldson loses a young mule colt to death. T. J. Brooks buys a work mule for 125 dollars and buys a cow for 50 dollars. Plum Lick forms a Sunday School with T. J. Brooks and James Douglas as superintendents. May Kendall's son William Howard recovers from diphtheria after antitoxin. Dr. P. L. McClure trips to Lexington for races. Pearl Douglas closes spring school with an old fashioned picnic and dinner on the ground.
Mr Jno M Myers is slowly improving. Mrs Jno Pelfry died April 28 and was laid to rest April 30 in Myers graveyard with Rev W M Combs conducting the service. The saint's camp ground buildings sold at public auction Saturday. Miss Lula Byrd and Miss Golden Byrd returned from Wolf county. Several girls plan to take the diploma exam Friday and Saturday. Reverner C Williams and Jno Locie Sayler were calling in Spruce Sunday evening.
A prominent Evansville citizen credits Vinci with saving his life after five months of pulmonary illness. He warns it cures chronic colds and coughs by reaching the root of the trouble and offers a money back guarantee. W S Lioup Druggist Mt Sterling endorses the medicine.
Henry Myers received five years and his father Wilson Myers one year in a West Virginia penitentiary for the killing of a prominent Somerville citizen. Both men are well known locally and were sentenced last week.
An advertisement lists Purelyblood White Plymouth Rock eggs at 1.00 per setting of 15. The seller is Mrs. JE Fassett, Rural Route No 2, with a 42 41 postal or routing note.
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