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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1920
Page
3
A parent narrative describes a girl who learns to read by hearing aloud stories and studying alphabet blocks. She masters twenty one stanzas of the Blackberry Girl and about two hundred fifty words before age seven, reading Rollo Books Gulliver's Travels and The Pilgrim's Progress with no formal instruction.
A terse reflective line notes that a person who aims to lead by pace often moves in the opposite direction, highlighting irony in leadership.
Gov Edwin P Morrow issues a formal proclamation calling on all Kentuckians to suspend business and gather in homes and at altars to offer prayers of thanks and gratitude. He notes blessings of peace liberty and law and honors the Pilgrim Fathers and harvest season in a period voice.
Inspect our new samples of Christmas and New Year’s Cards. The prettiest line ever shown here. Let us have your orders early. Advocate Publishing Co.
Chicago women were fined five dollars each for contempt of court after refusing to remove hats in Justice E. P. Aring's court. He declared that equal suffrage requires hat removal and ordered the fines plus costs.
411 acre farm for sale near Shelbyville and Waddy in Shelby county features 100 acres of woodland and remaining cultivated. Includes tenant house and barns for stock with tobacco acreage, three miles from depot, good schools and churches. Terms to suit buyer. Also note on dating love affairs affecting attractiveness.
Barbers are routinely willing to reduce charges for cash payments. Shops report customers often request discounts when paying with money in hand, with some offering immediate savings for cash.
The piece argues that U S tax relief depends on European creditors paying war debts. Officials believe tax cuts hinge on Europe’s credit, with $475 million annual interest and about $10 billion principal outstanding. Disarmament in Europe is seen as a path to freeing funds for debt service and reducing U S tax needs by billions.
The market extended weekly weakness with brokerages calling for extra margins after Thursday’s collapse, triggering more liquidation. Many speculative issues hit new lows, especially food and allied stocks, while Crucible Steel dropped sharply and United States Steel neared a three year low. Oil shares showed some strength but gains faded, and call money rate held at 7 percent as exchange rallied in London but drew little attention. About 550000 shares were traded by noon.
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