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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1916
Page
6
The Old Inn at 6th and Main Streets Louisville Kentucky lists European plan only rooms with and without bath priced from 1.00 to 2.00 per day. The Louisville Hotel and the Old Inn are promoted as the best eating place in town within walking distance to wholesale and retail districts and theatres.
A civic note encourages courteous speech and prudent spending as a path to happiness. The piece argues kindness to neighbors yields future gains and reflects on happiness as a refined art many miss.
Edward B. Dudding of Huntington West Virginia claims to have secured employment for three thousand ex convicts and says fewer than one hundred fail at their jobs. He argues punishment is wrong and reform should be the aim of law, urging mercy and re making character over vengeance. He calls for restraining the incurably vicious but never punishing.
A compact observation notes that modesty remains a valued trait yet scarce in contemporary life, suggesting social cost when restraint wanes. It frames modesty as a timeless jewel obstructed by modern pressures and pursuits.
S. P. Greenwade advertises pure pork sausage at 20 cents per pound in a brief poultry and groceries listing.
The Farmers' Bulletin 754 Bedbugs, by C L Maf fat of the Bureau of Entomology, outlines habits aiding eradication and simple home remedies. It notes bedbugs migrate to inhabited homes, hide in wall and floor cracks, and lay eggs under wallpaper. Methods include benzine or kerosene in crevices, fumigation with sulphur, and caution with iodine on sensitive skin. The bulletin is available free while supplies last.
Sorghum grain feeds poultry. 48 states spend 280 million dollars yearly on good roads. Birds like grackles destroy nests. Animal diseases cause 212 million dollars in losses. much preventable. Churn wash water should match butter milk temperature within two degrees. Over 260 thousand youths joined agri cultural and canning clubs in 1915. It is estimated a grain shipper loading 20 cars at 20 percent moisture pays.
The notice invites women in the county to form a country women's literary club to pursue a rest room project and a monthly social and literary day with lunch. A meeting is set for Wednesday November 1 at 2 30 PM at the Tea Cup Inn with a 10 o'clock member arrival.
The article notes the 6,000,000 rise in cattle and 10,900,000 rise in sheep while hogs have increased only 11,000,00. It questions if the nation has a selection in top form despite the lull, hoping quality compensates for the lack of noise.
G D Sullivan & Co operates a poultry and produce business with offices on W Locust Street and a telephone number 474 in Mt Sterling Kentucky.
Sheriff Warry F. Howell of Montgomery County Kentucky announces a general election on November 7 1916 to decide whether the county should incur a 15000 dollar indebtedness for purchasing a farm and building improvements for the care of the poor. The measure would authorize bonds up to 1000 dollars each at up to six percent, payable over two to twenty years, to be sold at par with accrued interest. Voting will occur 6am to 4pm at regular precincts with the same officers as the general election.
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