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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1919
Page
4
The page lists cemetery vases, picture frames, and framed pictures for sale. Various sale notices include John Deere equipment, tobacco plants and setters, Baldwin and Starr pianos, and other musical instruments with local shop references and phone numbers. Also mentions lodging screens, wall papers, and home furnishings from Lexington and Winchester merchants.
Readable adverts offer sale items from seeds and bungalows to pianos and furniture. Listings include McCormick seed strips, real estate via T Foster Rogers, Clay's Business College programs, a 8 room bungalow, and a large mix of hardware, clothing, and services across Lexington. Shipping, repairs, and sale of used goods feature prominently with pricing notes and contact points.
A dense page of Lexington Ky advertisements lists Cravens and Turpin real estate, auctioneers John W. Bain and W M Parrish, auto sales and service by Mt Sterling and Lexington shops, auto parts, taxi and hire services, shoe repair, rental rooms, and radiator fixes. Names include J W Baker, Miss Marcella Chiles, Clell Cockrell, Davis & Wilkinson, H R Prewitt, P K McKenna, D Turpin & Son, Mt Sterling Garage, Ragan Gay, Fayette Motor Co., L E Griggs, W J McCarty, Adams & Young, B Green. Continuous phone numbers and addresses appear for local trades.
Eight Canadian wild geese reported missing near the Duerson farm on Hinkston pike. Reward offered for information leading to their recovery by Allen Prewitt Jr. Phone 72. Also notices about free tickets at Table Theatre and a wanted ad to buy a gas cooking stove or range.
Corona portable six pound typewriter folds for easy transport with carrying case included. Price fifty dollars. Sold by W. H. Warren of Transylvania Printing Co., Lexington Kentucky. Advertising copy notes repairs and ribbons available from Stagg Typewriter Co. at 258 West Main Street Lexington. Fresh brains at Vanarsdell's.
Fresh meats and groceries advertised with sweet potato plants tomato and cabbage plants strawberries home grown green beans and new peas. Sanitary Meat Co. promises prompt delivery and provides phone number 421 for orders.
Wanted carpenters boat builders joiners cabinet makers millwrights tinsmiths plumbers pipe fitters and painters for high class yachts and phonograph cabinets steady work shops sanitary light steam heated Matthews Company Port Chester Ohio h 45-7t Beef pork breakfast bacon dried beef at Vanarsdell's free ticket for Miss Mary Coons at Table Theatre Wednesday night present ad at box office guaranteed care for gapes Mrs Ray Moss 659 W 1
A playful, reflective line contrasts romance and legality, suggesting love achieves full fulfillment while law lags behind. The text hints at a social or literary piece exploring desire versus formal constraint.
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