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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1920
Page
7
Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer rules set profit caps on sugar at 1 cent per pound for wholesalers and 2 cents per pound for retailers, aiming to curb price hikes. The decision impacts distributors, grocers, and consumers awaiting market effects and enforcement details.
District Attorney William Voris Gregory was told to notify the trade of the Attorney General's rulings and help enforce the order. Wholesalers report paying from 17 to 28 cents a pound for sugar, with it scarce and hard to obtain. Retailers say they cannot buy for less than 30 cents and are selling up to 37 cents per pound, keeping sugar in short supply.
Mrs. Cora Fightmaster of Newport Kentucky credits Tanlac with restoring her health after years of stomach trouble and severe weakness. She weighed 98 pounds before treatment and rose to 120 pounds, regaining energy to perform housework. Tanlac is sold in Mt. Sterling by Land and Priest.
A verse from the Junior Post-Intelligencer questions farmer youths leaving rural life. It argues the cause lies not in toil or fashion but in the fathers taking the rewards of the sons work, with lines about calves, lambs, and pigs becoming the parents' property.
An ad promotes RAT SNAP poison in cake form for rat and mice destruction. It claims mummifies rats after killing and leaves no odor. Available in three sizes 25c 50c and $1.00 from Chenault and Orear with a guarantee.
A Boston Transcript line recalls a Builders' Association dinner where the president quipped that a poor foundation will eventually cause collapse of everything but scandal.
Representative Alben W. Barkley introduces a bill to amend the War Finance Corporation Act authorizing a 2 million dollar revolving fund to purchase newsprint and resell to publishers. Sales would be at cost plus expenses with preferences for publishers unable to obtain paper, aiming for fair distribution nationwide.
A Kansas man killed himself by ingesting gasoline, described by the Little Rock Gazette as a spendthrift to the end. The brief notes the fatal act and character assessment in one succinct item.
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