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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1913
Page
8
A compilation of local items includes illnesses and visits, church meetings with large crowds, a baby’s death and burial at Forge Hill, a jail joke, farm road building, a Mt. Sterling marriage, tax collection notice by Sheriff Crooks, and a quip about Rockefeller as a rose bush in the Lord's garden.
The text argues that Montgomery county interests are best protected not by party lines but by six magistrates elected by political parties rather than by the people as a whole.
Lady's purse six inches long three inches wide with gold monogram R S P contains railroad passes for Mrs. 8S. 8. Henry Jr and eleven dollars. Finder may keep money and return purse and passes to Advocate office. Also small improved farm for sale near Mt Sterling. Also new pickling spices and pure apple vinegar at Vanarsdell's and Huyler's candies at Geiger's Pharmacy.
A cottage on Queen Street is offered with an application through Vanarsdell and Co.
The advertisement promises a customer receives a coupon with each purchase. When purchases total ten dollars, paying four eighty eight yields a handsome machine. Buyers get value by purchasing goods at this store and obtain the machine for less than one fifth of its selling price.
The message promotes and invites action to take advantage of a brand driven record offer, emphasizing consumer participation in a marketing promotion.
A vintage ad from florist Charles L. Simon successor to John Corbett seeks payment for overdue balance. The message urges prompt settlement and references kale as payment, including a contact phone line.
Timothy L. Woodruff former Lieutenant Governor of New York died Sunday night in New York City after two weeks in critical condition from a stroke of paralysis suffered while addressing a political meeting in New York.
The Christian Church circle plans a bazar in early December featuring home killed beef pork and lamb from Vanarsdell's retailing shed.
The Table Theatre presented Little Women Tuesday night to high praise in Mt. Sterling with strong acting and a scene that showed top class entertainment. Manager Wilkerson aims to provide quality shows and deserves audience backing.
For sale a Bell City cutting box with a two-horse treading machine attached. Or will trade. Contact T. W. at telephone 408-B.
A. Dietz & Co. won the contract to construct the Whitesburg National Bank and office building on Main Street at an estimated $25,000. The project promises a modern facility and rapid completion.
H. M. Ringo and Seth Botts take the White Swan Laundry agency in Ashland with shipments twice weekly and dry cleaning emphasized. The pair are described as enterprising and likely to succeed. Also notices a lost pearl brooch valued by Mrs. Thos. Kennedy between residence and Kennedy's Drug Store with a reward offered.
A Volturno survivor aboard the Carmania states the crew pushed ahead of passengers during lifeboat lowering. Wireless reports from ships in the Eastern Atlantic place the death toll at 136. Captain Inch's report to New York notes 485 passengers and 25 crew saved, totaling 143 lost.
A. B. Oldham & Co announces the second opening of its collection of ladies misses and children's ready to wear cloaks suits and one piece dresses on Friday and Saturday October 17 and 18 1913. Attendees are invited to view the line of apparel.
Advorate Publishing Co promotes Crane's Highland Linen Lawn as the top 25 cent paper on the market.
The excerpt questions Governor McCreary's proclamation naming October 24 and 25 as Good Roads Day and notes no visible efforts to implement it. It contrasts with Western practice where such days spurred considerable work and progress.
Master Bernard Gibbon, shot in the back days ago, has recovered enough to be brought home from a Lexington hospital. He is getting along nicely and should be able to go out again soon unless unforseen complications arise. Fish and oysters every day at Vanarsdell's.
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