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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1920
Page
4
Notice announces subscription and advertising policies for Advocate Publishing. instructs cash must accompany orders and that registration is entered for mailing as second class matter. Mentions J. W. Hedden and Mrs. Mary C. Ayres and limits distribution until payment is received.
The Louisville Times argues consumer buying drives prosperity or decline. It warns that overalls protests and price cutting harmed demand, while coordinated purchasing keeps production alive. If shoppers hold back, prices fall, supply tightens, and hardship grows.
The Chamber of Commerce discussed equalizing freight rates with nearby cities and the tobacco census goal. C. B. Patterson will oversee data on revenue raised this year versus last, with farmers urged to visit local banks to provide information for the tabulation.
The November Kentucky crop report from the State Commissioner of Agriculture C. Hanna notes tobacco at 0.730,000 pounds and corn at 2,000,000 bushels with potatoes at 6.7 million. Other crops include sweet potatoes, apples, pears, clover seed, sorghum syrup, and notes on declines from 1919. U.S. tobacco totals and yield per acre are given, with frost effects limited and updated comparisons to last year. The ad at the end promotes shoes from RB E Punch & Co.
Out of town visitors joined funeral attendees for J. J. Lacy including Sara Singleton from Plemingsburg and several from Wt. Sterling. Lexington trips include Crooks and Cameron, with others visiting in Cincinnati Bowling Green and Martinsville. Local residents also referenced returning from visits in Huntington and Bardstown.
The Federal Reserve Bank for the Eighth District in St Louis notes a downward trend across a wide range of commodities in its latest monthly statement. It highlights staples that remained high for long periods and notes investors who avoided peak prices by choosing safer assets see value in US securities.
Mrs W B Richards and son J M Richards return from a three week stay in Martinsville Indiana. Judge and Mrs C W Goodpaster visit their son Sherman Goodpaster. Mrs Ewing stays in Martinsville. Mrs J J Nesbitt visits daughter Mrs Wilson Strader in Lexington. Rev T C Wilson attends a Maysville district ministers meeting in Lexington. Theodore Niles of Henderson promotes Kentucky apple growth after the Indianapolis show, urging business leaders to back a Louisville apple exhibit next fall.
An ad promotes rubber footwear for men women and children from BR E Punch Co Inc and offers sausage grinding services by Saeed Vanarsdell's to save time and money.
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