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Newspaper
Mount Vernon Signal
Location
Mount Vernon, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1913
Page
4
State editors urge longer tenure for the superintendent of public instruction to allow reform plans to take root and bear fruit. They argue education should cultivate minds, not merely instruct memory, and stress strong county supervision and active trustee involvement for effective schooling.
Georgetown bankers will replace calendar advertising with prize money for Scott county Boys' Corn Growing clubs. About 200 will be awarded from banker funds, seen as a sane move to cut dead advertising costs while supporting agricultural efforts. The plan may set a statewide example. Chamberlain's Colic Diarrhoea Remedy is praised after quick relief from bowel complaints. Sold by Chas. Davis.
The article argues that small one room schools fail to retain older students who seek peer companionship and prefer larger consolidated schools. It warns parents to listen to their children’s viewpoints and contrasts the dullness of tiny schools with the vitality of larger campuses where older pupils stay engaged.
The article weighs school transport options amid consolidation debates. It notes rural resistance and suggests interurban cars or wagons as solutions, arguing transport ease could reduce illness and improve attendance, with some communities already succeeding.
A Texas wonder claims to cure kidney and bladder troubles including gravel diabetes and rheumatism. It supposedly regulates bladder issues in children and offers a two months' treatment per bottle. Sold by Dr. E W Hail in St. Louis and via mail for $1 if not available locally.
Rev H Stubenwoll of Allison Iowa extols Dr Kings New Life Pills for constipation calling them perfect pills no home should be without them Each pill guaranteed and priced at 25 cents available at Chas C Davis Some men talk in their sleep because that is the only chance they get
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