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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1921
Page
2
A satirical note attacks prohibitionists, warning they may soon need a law penalizing cows that kick in milk after cider apples. The piece mocks male aging, outlines courting rituals, and suggests one learns more about a man from sharing a drink than attending church.
The Burley Tobacco Growers Association invites graded schools in the burley district of Kentucky to submit essays on Why Father Should Sign the Tobacco Contract. Each county may award two prizes, $5 first and $2.50 second, for essays up to 300 words. Submissions must arrive by November 5, 1921, to the Johns Building Lexington offices with pupil name, school, and address.
Kentucky counties listed for eligibility include Boone Bourbon Boyd Boyle Bracken Breckinridge Bullitt Campbell Carroll Carter Casey Clark Cumberland Daviess Fayette Fleming Franklin Gallatin Garrard Grant Green Greenup Hardin Harrison Hart Henry Jefferson Jessamine Kenton Larue Lewis Lincoln Madison Marion Mason Meade Mercer Metcalfe Montgomery Nelson Nicholas Oldham Owen Pendleton Robertson Scott Shelby Spencer Trimble Washington Woodford. Additional prizes of 10 and 5 dollars are offered for Indiana Ohio West Virginia and Tennessee essays, plus a 20 dollar gold prize for best essay from any state or city rural school. Entries must be postmarked by November 4 and the association may publish winning essays with winner names. Peace has its horrors. Maxim might have aided the world by inventing a piano silencer.
Papers found by prohibition agents in New York detail liquor bootlegging profits and buyers. Six men were arrested in Long Island City as deliveries went to clubs restaurants cafes and upscale apartments. One slip notes a whisky cost to bootlegger of 24.50 a case and an average sale price of 87 with delivery instructions near the Criminal Courts building.
Have your hogs slaughtered, sausage made and lard rendered at our sanitary packing house on East Main Street. Charges very reasonable. Phone 114. Hon Meat Co.
Henry Watterson writes from New York to the United Confederate Veterans reunion committee in Chattanooga expressing regret at missing the event. He recalls Chattanooga as the place he found his wife, shares affectionate memories, and wishes the bonnie blue flag and Dixie songs to mark the gathering. He sends regards to old comrades and signs with Henry Watterson.
A local notice asks neighbors who pays top prices for eggs poultry hides rags books and junk in Mt Sterling. Contact H Gordon at phone 460. 106 2.
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