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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1919
Page
2
An ad style text promotes recurring advertisers with rhyming pitches about bargains and low prices, praising a local paper as a trusted guide. It also includes a medical claim about catarrh treatment, asserting internal remedies work through the blood and citing Hall's Catarrh Medicine with testimonials and a Toledo company.
The notice lists office hours from 9 to 12 and 1 to 5 for the office near Geiger's Pharmacy. It provides contact numbers 247 for office use and 249 for residence inquiries.
Miss Elsie Mae George at Montgomery County High School receives a long letter from her cousin at Richmond College in Richmond Kentucky dated September 18 1919. The cousin describes dormitory life at Sullivan Hall Memorial Hall and Model High School and asks about friends teachers and classmates while noting courses Latin American History agriculture and a hike to select seed corn. The note mentions Uncle Floyd Aunt Leathen and gratitude to Miss McClure for teaching her to wait tables.
A first person diary style note describes life with Effie Allen from Casey County Kentucky and college gossip. It mentions weekly dances teachable for 25 cents, a near storm damaging a tree, a fire drill, distant friends Fannie Lyda and Edward, and reflections on Richmond Kentucky with local shops and raincoats from Walsh Co and Punch & Co.
Mr and Mrs Ben T Wright contract A E Lawrence to build a modern twelve room brick residence on their North Maysville street lot. When finished the house will be one of the handsomest in the city and the Wrights will use it as their future home impacting church and social circles. The Walsh Co advertises underwear and March cotton expected to rise to 50c.
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