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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1911
Page
3
O'Rear and McCreary clash over reform of the Kentucky Legislative lobby. Both vow to fight bribery and bullying of legislators, promising a Frankfort house-cleaning to purge corrupt influence and topple the self-serving group that enriched themselves at public expense.
Farmers mechanics railroaders and laborers rely on the remedy for cuts burns and braises. The product claims immediate sting relief and rapid pain reduction with use.
The famous 5000 dollars Transylvania Stake at Lexington is scheduled for Thursday October 5th marking its 23rd running. Sparkling trotting stars such as R. T. C. 2:06 4, Stroller 2:05 4, Anvil 2:08, Argot Hal 2:07, King Brook 2:07 4, Dorothy Hansboro 9:06 4, Chatty Direct, Gordon Todd, Redlac Jr. and others are listed to race. Grooms promise a whisker hunting showdown and remind attendees of half fare railroad rates.
The column lists county court days for Bath Owingsville Bourbon Paris Clark Winchester Fayette Lexington Fleming Flemingsburg Harrison Cynthiana Madison Richmond Montgomery Mt Sterling 3rd Nicholas Carlisle 2nd. It veers into a string of light verse questions and quips about dogs dress codes weather cradle rock and Maud Muller with wry social commentary on coercion and agents.
The Cincinnati Times-Star credits Mrs. O. H. Belmont with a new suffragist tale. A wife sends away her parrot Uncle Tom after discovering it teaches her husband to swear, illustrating a moral about duty and personal conduct in the movement.
The London Chronicle notes a debate on Wales symbols with praise for the leek as St. David’s emblem. It contrasts the leek with the daffodil, mentions ancient use by Pharaohs, and recalls Queen Alexandra wearing a leek in 1882 drawing room.
A fragmentary text offers generic sales pitches and social maxims. It includes a roofing ad with a phone number and a personal name, followed by several short, aphoristic lines about compliments, injury, privacy, and civic life. The material reads as miscellaneous folklore snippets.
A remark notes that employer and employee know each other as intimately as spouses and often quarrel or "pick" at each other, highlighting tensions in workplace relationships.
The Sakai people of Malaysia, a small forest dwelling group, are noted for nose flutes that produce sweet tones. While flutes blown by the mouth are common worldwide, the Sakais uniquely play with their noses. Occasionally a negro minstrel in this country has been seen with nose flute, but it is a rare stunt versus the Sakais habitual practice.
The Dorset giant is a huge bronze age figure carved into a steep hillside in Cerne Abbas Dorset. It shows a simian body with long outstretched arms and a massive club in the right hand. The turf carving, preserved for centuries, is linked to Celtic and early English beliefs and is noted for its antiquity and quaint appearance.
A Denver Irishman arrested for punching another on the Fourth of July faces Judge Lindsay. When asked if guilty, he quips that he is here to find out. The judge answers that fun ends where the injured man’s nose begins.
A dialogue unfolds with Senator Sorghum claiming admission to being a servant of the country while rejecting a label of complacent lobbyist. The exchange centers on duties, loyalties, and the comic tension between public service and self-perception.
Dialogue shows Mistress urging a market trip while New Maid refuses to accompany a mistress bearing a market basket. The exchange hints at class and social expectations in a domestic setting.
The great Lexington trotting meeting begins Tuesday October 3 and runs two weeks featuring the Kentucky Futurity Transylvania Championship Tennessee Stake Walnut Hall Cup and top horses like Uhlan 1.58 percent. Half fare on Kentucky railroads and a proud showcase of yearling champions across a world class racing carnival. Mrs Charles Freity of Moosup Connecticut credits Burdock Blood Bitters for renewed health after years of illness.
A young cigar clerk laments his romance after the girl's father buys her a Boston bull terrier to end their relationship, prompting heartbreak and local gossip about the propriety and influence of gifts in love.
A passerby declares he knows what he is talking about, marking him as unusually certain and notable for making such an assertion in public.
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