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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1917
Page
3
A soldier recalls Army discipline and loss of identity in letters home. Recounting bar racks, clothes taken, and assigned number 575, he endures a church sermon and a seven day guardhouse sentence after answering a question about weariness. The note sits beside a polemical quip on Satan’s 1000 year loose period.
Master Commissioner W A Samuels sets hearings in the Montgomery Circuit Court case Nannie E Oldham Stofer Estate from September 12 1917 to October 8 1917 at Mt Sterling Kentucky. Claimants must file proven claims and interested parties must appear with proper proof within the period.
A verse contrasts a civic crowd that shunned a quiet man with the realization that public boasts lack value without deeds. The speaker acknowledges misjudgment, noting the man now fights in the trenches while loud patriots stay home.
Catarrh cannot be cured by local applications. internal remedies are needed. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and targets blood and mucous surfaces. Marketed as a quality medicine from Toledo, Ohio with testimonials available. Also sold with Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
The article lauds Breathitt and Lee counties Kentucky for supplying volunteers with no draft expected. It recalls the region’s lawfulness despite feuds, praises mountaineer patriotism from the French and Indian War to World War I era, and comments on current national issues including food policy and aviation progress.
A poor farmer Van Wyk and his daughter Katherine face class scorn from Greuther as their love endures. Diamonds hidden in mud plaster reveal wealth after their cabin bricks crumble, and the Van Wyk farm becomes Kimberley’s famed diamond mine site.
The remark imagines a stronger descriptor for war than Sherman used, signaling a critique of ongoing conflict. It lampoons the severity of modern warfare by invoking a famed Civil War general as a measure of vocabulary.
A Washington dispatch reports the provost marshal general will prepare a full statistical report on the draft’s first increment after the October mobilization. No steps toward a second increment will be taken until then. General Crowder says a second call was never considered by him, Wilson, or Baker.
Mr. J. B. Ledford of Lombard Kentucky sold to Broadhead and Garrett of Clay City 3000 acres of timber lands in Wolfe and Menefee counties. The lands hold valuable timber and the cash price was about $25,000. Ledford is brother of Henry Ledford of this city.
A note explains beef decreases from one hundred to sixty seven pounds after ordinary roasting and adds an apology to the butcher for the small roast.
The statement expresses no objection to the appointment of Mr. Taft as major general while urging consideration of the ongoing khaki shortage impacting military readiness.
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