The Fast Trots at the Lexington Meet
Horses like Dodie Archdale Billy Burke and Helen Stiles highlight the Lexington Meeting with fast trots and prize races. The Transylvania championship and new October Prize draw strong fields while ranges in form create uncertainty about winners.
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Lexington
Dodie Archdale
Billy Burke
Anvil
Baden
Bruce Girdle
Cheeny
Zarrine
Annie Kohl
Oakdale
Helen Stiles
J. Malcolm Forbes
Shawbay
Transylvania
Transfer Wagon Ready for Hauling Services
Advertises hauling services with prompt delivery to and from trains. Provides contact 321 and directs inquiries to Geo. W. Anderson.
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Geo. W. Anderson
Local Bargains From Suttons and Vanarsdell
The Best is always the cheapest with offers from W. A. Sutton & Son for furniture cars and rugs. Vanarsdell's promises best home killed steaks and roasts for shoppers seeking value.
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W. A. Sutton & Son
Best Home
Vanarsdell’s
Democrats seek funds to elect Ben V. Smith to Congress
An urgent appeal to Democrats in the Eleventh district asks for donations to fund the Smith campaign. Colonel Woodson May, state Democratic Committee member and campaign manager, is coordinating efforts from Somerset to ensure Caleb Powers is defeated and the district redeemed.
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Eleventh
Ben V. Smith
Congress
Caleb Powers
Colonel Wood
Son May
State
Democratic Committee
Mr. Smith
Somerset
Self-Reliance According to Emerson in Nature and Life
The excerpt emphasizes inner strength as nature’s measure of right. It argues self-reliance as essential to resilience against life’s hurricanes and external pressures, warning luxury and dependence erode character. It extols the durable, inexhaustible human spirit when fortified by inner resources and belief.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
McKee Real Estate and Auto Firm Ad Sparks Local Interest
H. Clay McKee & Sons lists services in real estate loans insurance bonds and investments. The notice promotes sales and rentals, auto sales under the Wurke Motor Car banner, and urges readers not to miss offerings in a compact local ad.
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Wurke
Farm for Sale in Clark County 144 Acres Tobacco Land
Private sale of a 144 acre Clark County farm on Donaldson Creek four miles from North Middletown and ten miles from Mt. Sterling. Includes 9 room dwelling two verandas two tobacco barns stock barn well fenced stock water church and school nearby. Contact H. C. Grimsprm R F D No 1 Winchester Ky East Tennessee phone 28.
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Donaldson Creek
Clark County
Middletown
Mt. Sterling
H. C. Grimsprm
Winchester
East Tennessee
Wades Mill Exchange
Ten Good Reasons Trusts Fight Wilson Campaign
A political ad attacks trusts and names figures like Morgan interests and Theodore Roosevelt as opposing Wilson. It claims trusts want to block his platform goals including lowering duties and breaking conspiracies keeping up prices. An unrelated advertisement for Dean's Ointment follows about itching skin.
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Wilson
Rshalle Wool Trust
Cotton Mill Trust
Harvester Trust
Sugar Trust
Steel Trust
Aldrich Rubber Trust
Guggenheim Smelter Trust
George W. Perkins
Morgan Interests
Associated Trusts
Frank Munsey
Theodore Roosevelt
Currency Reform Urgent Demanded by Governor Wilson
In a western tour speech Governor Wilson argues the currency question is pressing as prosperity grows from record crops. He calls for a reform to remove obstacles to prosperity and business and claims the old system must be made elastic or the country cannot stand its own prosperity.
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Wilson
Wanted buyers for residence property in mid price range
A notice seeks parties wishing to purchase a residence valued between 2850 and 3500 dollars. Sellers are urged to list properties with J. H. Brunner The Shoe Man at 7 tf W Hoffman Wood and await a forthcoming event titled Houn Dawg.
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W. Hoffman Wood
Houn Dawg
J. H. Brunner
the Shoe Man
Sanitary Drinking Cups Offered By Advocate Pub Co
Local notice promotes sale of sanitary drinking cups from Advocate Pub Co The ad urges businesses to stock up before an inspector arrives and provides the phone contact 74 for orders.
For Sale and Classified Ads Snapshot
For Sale. Seven meat hogs for No pe delivery. B F Marx, 11 t.1. Bring country produce to S E Kelly & Co 121f. High-class printing quickly done at Advocate Publishing Co. The days are getting shorter like a man with ten cents. Sutton & Son furnish your home with top carpets furniture and rugs. “the best” where it costs more elsewhere.
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Advocate Publishing Co
Sutton & Son
Campaign rhetoric and 1912 election stance noted
A fragmented political notice cites warnings about reforms and party revolutions. It references Taft Roosevelt Wilson and Marshall, then records a Montgomery county court order to let Spencer precinct voters decide if cattle may roam public lands, with a future poll scheduled.
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D. W. Jackson
Spencer
Montgomery County
Spencer Precinct
Central Kentucky Natural Gas Company promises advance after December 1912 meter read
The company reports bold progress on extending main lines to West Virginia gas fields and assures customers of a full dependable supply for years. After December meter readings in 1912, rates will rise five cents per thousand cubic feet. Heinz Pickling Vinegar is used in all Greenwade's goods.
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Kentucky
West Virginia
Central Kentucky Natura Gas Company (Incorporated
County Court Dates Near Mt Sterling List
County court days are listed for counties near Mt. Sterling including Bath Owingsville Bourbon Paris Clark Winchester Fayette Lexington Fleming Flemingsburg Harrison Cynthiana Madison Richmond Montgomery Mt Sterling and Nicholas Carlisle with specific Monday schedules. The notice from E. E. Kelly & Co. solicits courteous treatment prompt delivery and trade appreciation.
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Mt. Sterling
Bath
Owingsville
Bourbon Paris
Clark
Winchester
Fayette
Lexington
Fleming
Flemingsburg
Harrison
Cynthiana
Madison
Richmond
E. Kelly &Co
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Whotman Wood
Earth
Ling
Grates
G. H. Stother
Bank Street
Mt. Sterline
McDonald Bros
H. Clay McKee & Sons
E. Kelly & Co
Dean
B. F. Marx
S. E. Kelly & Co
Elt
Thomas R. Marshall
Marshall
Baltimore
United States
Woodrow Wilson
Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
Arkansaw Thomas Cat
Montgomery County Court
G. A. McCormick
Heinz
Greenwade’s
Pantoriv
Paul Weckesser
Exington
Weber’s Prize Band of America
Advocate Publishing Company Incorporated
Mt. Sterling, Ky
County Court Days
Montgomery
Y. Nicholas
Carlisle
VIA
J. C. Beam
St. Louis, Mo
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