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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1911
Page
7
Thos Kennedy Drug Store touts ZEMO SOAP as a cure for pimples blackheads eczema dandruff itching and other skin affections. The ad claims swift results with minimal treatment and urges readers to obtain ZEMO from a leading druggist, including Kennedy's Drug Store in Mt Sterling.
For sale milk and cream available. Roy Morris offers hauling with good ale and wagons contact phone 147 or 141 Roy Morris for service and delivery.
Used Oliver Standard Visible No 3 typewriter for sale as new condition. Immediate sale offered. apply at this office.
A local ad promotes new business stationery samples offered by Advocate Pub. Co. Inc. It emphasizes pricing equal to regular printed goods and urges a visit to see the quality, noting that a business house is judged by its stationery.
Winchester Kentucky ad offers best work and lowest prices for monuments. F H Jackson proprietor invites inquiries and promises to call on customers to save money.
The passage expresses sympathy for industry and believes prosperity lasts longer when public interests are patiently safeguarded. It promotes Dr. Thomas Electric Oil as a strong, cheap household liniment, claimed to have been America’s remedy for 25 years.
An advertisement highlights the latest society monogram stationery styles from Advocate Pub. Co. It notes attractive designs and suggests readers explore the collection, while a quoted line personifies the idea of being “between two fires” reflecting common concerns of the era.
The article recounts Nostradamus as a famed mid-16th century prophet who allegedly foresaw events affecting rulers such as Charles V and Henri II. It notes claims of accurate foretold outcomes including executions by Clerepeyne in Toulouse and later events like the Varennes flight and Napoleon III’s defeat, claimed to be fulfilled centuries later.
Eddie Foy at the Lambs club in New York recounted a panama hat joke. A clerk sent his girlfriend a telegram reading picnic bring panama, but the message was copied such that her parents would join, prompting laughter when the girl revealed the telegram to her puzzled beau.
Katherine F. Gerould argues in the Atlantic that children favor princesses and royal myths over commoners and social theory. She notes kids prefer princesses in disguise and show little sympathy for goose girls, while disdain for divine rights and socialism grows with age.
A traveler reports that native Papua women learn quickly when young and can be taught many trades. After marriage their intellectual development seems to stall as women perform most labor, while men poised as protectors lounge with spears, avoiding hard digging.
A critical friend quips that Briggins cannot avoid his weather chatter. He jokes that at dinner a waiter spilled tea on him and Briggins wondered which was worse the heat or the humidity.
A local retailer emphasizes money saving for shoppers with a sale on this season's new goods. The call to action highlights bargains secured for the buying public.
Pasteur's founding of bacteriology reshaped views on individual liberty and society. The public drinking cup and soon the roller towel are targets in moves to curb germ transfer, with the abolition movement gaining momentum and likely success.
A terse aphorism on effort and consequence notes that a person who tries to seize everything ends up with more than they can carry, implying limits on ambition and the value of balance.
The piece notes widespread but inaccurate claims that a fifteen year old is to be executed in Arkansas. It clarifies the conviction status, appeals to the Supreme Court, and that sentencing if murder in the first degree rests with the trial judge. It urges calm debate beyond a single high profile case.
An advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as a constitutional remedy that cures catarrh in all stages. It offers a $100 reward for any case not cured, claims internal action on blood and mucous surfaces, and urges sending for testimonials from F J Cheney and Co of Toledo.
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