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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1916
Page
2
Mount Sterling resident Mrs. C. C. Schooler reports a family member with back and kidney pains found relief using Doan's Kidney Pills from Duerson's Drug Store. The product, priced 50 cents, is sold by Foster Milburn Co. of Buffalo, N. Y.
The Brooklyn Standard Union denounces Jeremiah A. O Leary s telegram as an offensive attack on President Wilson. The paper praises thePresident s cool contempt and cites national unity across parties as the American reaction.
Mr Noble Ledford dies after an appendicitis operation in Harlan aged fifty nine. A native of Owsley county he lived in Montgomery and Tennessee before returning to practice law there. Survived by brothers Henry Joseph B F Ledford and a sister Mrs Sarah Noe with one half brother Will Ledford. He was unmarried and known for integrity and Republican political involvement.
Sheriff Harry F. Howell of Montgomery County Kentucky announces a special election on November 7, 1916, to decide if the county should incur a twenty year bonds debt of fifteen thousand dollars to buy a farm and build facilities for the care of the poor. The measure appears on the general election ballot with YES or NO options and bonds issued at up to six percent interest. Polls open 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. at regular precincts under state election laws.
Chairman Willcox denounces the act as fraudulent citing a joker in the law. Hughes claims the bill does not emancipate children. Lovejoy defends the measure as carefully drafted after three years of consideration. Cummins affirms the act will achieve humane aims despite critiques.
An ad extols chiropractic as in harmony with the body's Vital Force and urges readers to seek spinal adjustments to improve health. It notes Advocate Building Mt Sterling Kentucky office hours and promotes chiropractic care as beneficial in sickness. The piece also cites Chicago Herald praise for the National Child Labor Committee and the child labor law's careful, bipartisan crafting.
Mr Z Taylor Young has opened a law office in the new Knapp building. He is well known in Rowan county and an experienced lawyer. A former member of the Morehead bar he needs no commendation. The Morehead Mountaineer notes his expected splendid practice.
An old-time boy who once rolled corn shuck cigarettes for free now raises a son who buys corn shucks to craft them at a cost per sack. The tale suggests that persistence changes fortunes as the saying goes, All things come to those who won’t wait.
The speaker recounts a youth tactic to overcome stammering by slow deliberate speech. He describes practicing saying syllables and letters like B ten times before words, then delivering remarks with quiet, delayed articulation as a successful cure.
A brief quotation attributed to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on the value of simplicity in character manners and style, noting it as a line to remember.
A brief quotation from Woodrow Wilson emphasizes that America seeks only what it is rightful to claim for humanity. The line frames national virtue as a demand for universal human rights.
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