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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1911
Page
6
The document lists multiple racing stakes at Kentucky events on October 4 to October 7. It includes pacing and trotting purses, age divisions, and notable stakes such as Futurity and Transylvania, with purse amounts and class times across days.
The article notes a Democrat homecoming as veteran leaders like Simon Boliver Buckner John M. Atterbury Cassius M. Clay and Henry L. Martin rally for Governor McCreary and the ticket. It says past defections are reversing with broad support, suggesting a strong November turnout and a looming Republican defeat.
One hundred dollars reward for an uncured case of catarrh with Hall's Catarrh Cure. F J Cheney Co of Toledo endorses the remedy and cites fifteen years of honorable dealings. The cure is taken internally and claims to act on blood and mucous surfaces. Testimonials free. Price 75 cents per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Take Wail's Family Pills for constipation.
The Burley Tobacco Society has accepted a contract with James B. Haggin of New York to oversee a ten year pooling scheme. A Lexington factory will handle ten percent of pooled tobacco annually while the rest goes to open market. Haggin, Kentucky’s top burley producer, pledges ten years of pooled production. Final board action awaited at October meeting.
New statistics show farmers receive higher prices than a year ago for many crops and milk while prices for livestock and wool fall. Potatoes up 56 percent hay 23.1 percent barley 36.4 percent oats 5.2 percent rye 3.8 percent clover seed 28.2 percent milk 0.5 percent sweet potatoes 29.1 percent onions 16.2 percent. Beef cattle down 5.4 percent hogs down 145 percent sheep down 14.9 percent lambs down 7.9 percent wool down 17.9 percent corn down 0.6 percent wheat down 11.5 percent butter down 8.3 percent cotton down 18.1 percent.
A Republican advocate argues Judge O'Rear will discuss national matters next year after noting Taft era acts were rejected by voters. The piece campaigns for a Kentucky Senate candidate favoring tariff revenue only and opposing trusts. It mocks O'Rear as poor and suggests using campaign funds for a barbecue to gain votes.
John Aikman, 71, a known feud figure in Breathitt county, was shot dead by Abe Griffith about twenty miles above Jackson on Thursday night. His son Mart Aikman was mortally wounded in the same incident.
Classified notice offering first floor residence on Antwerp avenue with four rooms, vanity sinks, electric lights, hot and cold water. Contact phone 204 or speak with Mrs. Mary Schlegel.
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