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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1918
Page
3
The text lists many Selective Service classifications from A to L covering marital status, dependents, professions, and special exemptions. It ends with a Liberty Bonds appeal and a quip about a single man marrying to avoid homelessness, reflecting wartime morale messaging.
Public notices offer cash for old false teeth from two to thirty five dollars per set whether broken or intact. The ad also buys diamonds gold silver and bridge-work with payment by return mail from Mazer's Tooth Specialty in Philadelphia.
The American Red Cross plans a hillside village near Le Havre housing one hundred Belgian refugee families in four room cottages. Rent will fund operations, with mandatory work and weekly six dollar rents. The village will feature Belgian schools, a Belgian priest, and portable cottages that can be moved to Belgium after the war.
Notice of sale in equity in Montgomery Circuit Court in 1918. John W. William vs Mary Ella Upshaw et al. The sale includes a 23 acre tract on Lulbegrud Creek in Mt Sterling Kentucky, to be bid at public auction on October 21, 1918, with six month credit and a lien retained until full payment. Bids require bond and security.
At a major training camp a librarian from Lib rary War Service notes a National Army recruit who had never ridden a railroad train and another who had never spoken on a telephone. The Red Cross War Council allocates 14 688 dollars to buy 120 000 pounds of coffee for France.
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