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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1916
Page
2
W G Sheppard recalls European capitals and battlefronts to defend U S honor and statesmanship. He contrasts American calm and restraint with European war traps and warns against diluting guidance in Washington. A Chicago Day Book fragment closes with a maxim: never want what you cannot have.
A reader quotes Mrs. Cora Wilson Stewart praising Woodrow Wilson for keeping boys at home and out of trenches. Supporters argue peace protects families while opponents of Hughes are viewed as wanting war. News out of Elizabeth town notes mothers’ concern and desire to maintain peace.
The passage urges courteous treatment and speaking positively about the city. It argues boosters gain friends among solid community members while provoking few enemies among chronic skeptics. Encourages residents to promote local benefits and be heard.
Captain W A Rosenfield of Rock Island Illinois on a thirty day furlough from Brownsville Texas rejects charges that troops on the Mexican border are mistreated or starved. He says soldiers receive regular army rations and notes protests came from men used to better living while those accustomed to army life accepted the rations.
The two year old child of Cleveland Kerns of New Castle Indiana died Friday at home and was brought here for burial. The infant was laid to rest Sunday at Machpelah Cemetery after services at the home of Mrs. Kerns’ father, R. W. Greene, on Mitchell Avenue.
Pure pork sausage offered by S. P. Greenwade at twenty cents per pound.
The body of Joe Shannon who died after a long illness in a Cincinnati hospital was brought home Saturday and buried in St. Thomas' cemetery. Shannon, about forty, lived in Carlisle and left many relatives in the county. The item ends with a proverb about merchants and a stray remark on life.
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