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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1921
Page
5
Five months into operations, Long Green Tobacco Company reports over 1,500 retail dealers reached and sales across eight states. The venture, driven by three traveling salesmen, has earned more than $10,000 with half distributed to local merchants. The product is described as indigenous to the bluegrass region with noted white barley qualities.
Addison Baldwin hails Kentucky tobacco as best seller and urges Mt Sterling to follow Atlanta’s path with small factories. He cites Birmingham Memphis and Mississippi River support as rivals and calls for wiser elective leadership to guide future policy.
The article notes two proposed constitutional amendments for the upcoming November election. One concerns a 10 percent distribution and the other removes the education department from politics. While undecided, it states that most school principals and superintendents favor both amendments and urges careful consideration.
A State Highway Commission letter urges immediate action to secure rights of way for the good roads system from here to the Clark county line. With 60 foot wide right of way, contracts would be let and work started at once. Landowners are asked to contact Roy G. Kern or Mark A. Prewitt today to complete this initial step.
Mrs. Anna B. Wheeler of Louisville urged the Kentucky Woman’s Temperance Union to intensify law enforcement and target tobacco and cigarettes. She warned against law evasion, called for ending legalized gambling and vice venues, and urged home teaching of obedience to all law while noting unions reorganized in Central City Parkland Butler and California.
The Mt. Sterling Bottling Works Co buys a carload of bottles for 1922 needs and plans plant enlargement and more labor. The piece notes a trend toward increased business activity and the public’s generosity, while musing on the dullness of removing trouble from life.
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