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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1918
Page
5
Richmond visitors and homecomings mark a week of social activity as many residents and relatives travel to and from the area. Travelers include Walter Triplett of Richmond and Miss Dorothy Tyler from Danville, with many others visiting kin in Beattyville Ashland and Louisville during the flu period.
Miss Louise Lloyd, studying in Louisville, returns home for a several days visit to her parents Mr and Mrs W S Lloyd. Guests include Mrs B Macon Coles and children from Memphis Mrs Mary Kendall Mrs Jesse L Thweat and baby from Atlanta. Howell Hunt on ten day furlough at Great Lakes, weighs twenty pounds more. Mr and Mrs Robert E Tipton entertain with informal dinner. local attendees include Mr and Mrs A S Hart Pierce Winn and A L Tipton.
Saturday specials feature alarm clocks at 1 dollar, men’s work shirts at 1.25, laundry soap cakes priced at 0.98, Red Cross starch boxes at 0.75, and ladies winter underwear sets. Unbleached cotton priced at 0.20 per yard, dress ginghams at 0.25, plus ladies knit underskirts at 0.48.
Special Registration Days are designated for October 28 29 and 30. Voters who were ill or absent on Regular Registration Day should call at the County Clerk's office on one of the listed days to register.
1918 Buick five passenger in A-1 condition with under 1100 miles. View at Mt. Sterling Garage. For more info contact Miss Kate Hunt at 683 W 1. 16 4t.
For Rent A farm on Prewitt Pike near Prewitt Station offering about 50 acres meadow 10 acres for tobacco with remainder in grass. See Mrs. D. M. Chernault or J. C. Reid. 16-31.
The report lists several residents affected by Spanish influenza and other illnesses. Mary Prewitt Turley remains in critical condition under nurse care, Byron Wood is seriously ill at Camp Meade, and Carolyn Ratliff suffers high fever at home on West Clay Street. Doctors May and Van Sant are on the sick list. Mary Beall and Richard Eubank also show illness, with Eubank improving from typhoid and W W Eubank Jr moved to a Lexington hospital amid hopeful signs.
Mrs Porter Hull and Miss Arris Chiles have suffered influenza for several days though improving. Many residents continue to battle Spanish influenza and most are progressing as well as can be expected.
On Monday October 7 a daughter Elizabeth Kidd was born to the wife of Mr Harry Hadden in the city. Earlier on October 5 a daughter Dorothy Haviland arrived for the wife of Mr John Brannock born eight pounds. Mrs Brannock was formerly Miss Fannie Brown, daughter of Mrs F D Richardson.
Strother Motors Co lists four Fords for sale on their showroom floor, including two sedans and two roadsters. The告.
Ten single comb black Minorca roosters offered for sale by Mrs. Marion Hadden. Each bird weighs about 5 pounds. Located at rural route 5. Contact details not fully listed in the notice.
The notice from B. Frank Perry & Co outlines tobacco insurance options with the Hurst Home Insurance Co covering tobacco against fire and wind damage. It directs readers to call J. T. Coons and references Liberty Bond motivation within wartime rhetoric.
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