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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1919
Page
10
The ordinance requires any person firm or corporation soliciting or trading oil stocks or leases to pay a 75 dollar annual license tax. Violations carry a ten dollar fine with each day of unlicensed activity counted as a separate offense. The measure repeals conflicting ordinances and takes effect upon legal publication.
The ordinance requires peddlers and itinerant retailers to pay an annual license of 500 dollars or 50 dollars per day if issued for less than a year. Exemptions include agricultural implements books meat farm products maps and more. Violations incur a 50 dollar fine and each day without license counts as a separate offense. City Clerk H B Ringo notes repeal of conflicting ordinances and effective date after passage and publication.
Notice calls all property owners of Mt. Sterling Kentucky to a council chamber meeting at 8 p.m. on May 15 to decide whether to destroy city trees to save the sewer system. The sewer project costs are about 150000 dollars and not fully paid.
Claims by the Association Opposed to National Prohibition that 800000 men will lose jobs on July 1 cause no alarm at the United States Employment Service. Dr George W Kirchwey says unemployment should fall by July due to rapid revival of industry toward normal operations.
A mix of dubious patent medicine promotion for Vinci and a broader economic note on unemployment linked to prohibition. The piece cites Dr. Kirchwey’s figures, estimating up to 80 000 out of work in New York State and 40 000 in New York City, while noting clothing and building trades job losses.
Dr H M Wright a dental surgeon opens an office in Mt Sterling Kentucky above Geigers Pharmacy at Court and Maysville Streets. The former occupant was Dr F A Millard. Services and work are guaranteed.
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