Farmer’s lost steer hides cost more than shoes worth
A farmer lost a steer and sold the hide for $12.50 while needing $18 to buy the best shoes. The cost gap sparks thoughts on farm trade and the fate of farmer organizations.
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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1920
Page
7
A farmer lost a steer and sold the hide for $12.50 while needing $18 to buy the best shoes. The cost gap sparks thoughts on farm trade and the fate of farmer organizations.
Local advertiser W. L. Lloyd promotes a selection of garden seeds under Fresh Line branding. The listing highlights a variety of seed kinds available for planting season preparations.
A light column notes social quirks and quips about men and women, marriage motives, and everyday foibles. It mentions Charles M Schwab and a playful jab at songs, plus a joke about punch holes in ears and a Louisville caption about liquor storage in the customhouse.
A miscellany of political jabs and social quips reflects Prohibition era debates and gender topics. The notes lampoon suffrage talk, dress norms, and voters while quoting local innuendo and humor about women and liquor. An ad line announces wool for sale at Sullivan's Powlary Yard.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway touts the shortest direct route through Pullman sleepers to Washington Baltimore Philadelphia and New York with a direct line to Richmond Old Point Norfolk and North Carolina and two through trains to Louisville featuring steel equipment and dining cars.
Dr H V Reese endured a decade of illness and failed treatments before creating the Reese Formula R-11 in 1898. Now healthy and vigorous, he offers the remedy via Wm B Lloyd's Drug Store in Mt. Sterling for indigestion nervous tension rheumatism backache sleeplessness and urinary kidney or liver troubles. A demo will be held by a Lloyd’s clerk with no charge to attend.
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