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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1921
Page
9
A business perspective urges calm about six months ahead. Demand will exceed supply in most lines, wages stay strong, crops are bountiful, rates may fall, and deflation frees credit for productive work. Banks curb speculation, freight improves, labor grows efficient, and retail trade rises.
An old advertisement promotes a soothing eye remedy from P. O Lee, sole manufacturer in Nicholasville Kentucky. The copy emphasizes gentle relief, prepaid mail order, and a price of one dollar.
Citizens urged to vote YES to fund hard surfaced roads with a bargain price. The message touts 75 cents saved for a dollar’s worth of road work and promotes turnout for the upcoming Road Election Saturday.
Patriots from Central Labor unions Chambers of Commerce Rotary clubs and Knights of Columbus back the American Legion mobilizing for Memorial Day poppy sales to aid French war orphans. Ex service leaders like Ethel Barrymore helped the Legion showcase talent while contests drew 1 669 entrants with 64.4 percent male and 35.6 percent female participation.
During the week ended May 13, twenty American Legion posts and sixty three units of its Women's Auxiliary received charters reflecting ongoing veteran organization activity.
Attorney General Charles I. Dawson rules that women living in the Japage territory must pay the poll tax of one dollar. The opinion, prompted by Bernard Stone, Nelson County Board of Education chair, confirms the act allows the Fiscal Court to impose the tax on all legal voters in the area.
Voters are urged to cast a YES ballot on the Good Roads measure this Saturday. The election will determine funding or support for road improvements in the area.
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