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Newspaper
Mount Vernon Signal
Location
Mount Vernon, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1915
Page
3
Personal visits from Pugh Thompson Farmer and Franklin families, business trips by Owens and Furnish, and numerous mentions of Mrs. Mullins ill and Mrs. Dyche with children. Local road planning dominates with pike routes, Good Roads meetings, and state aid rules. a fatal appendicitis ends the day for Robert McFerron. Shrine events and car promotes fill out the spread.
Local notice promotes cash and trade savings at Fish's with references to Bargain Counters. R. L. Collier is present loading out poles. Claims of abundant cherries this year and a liberal reward for a lost ring with Emeral Tiffany setting. Rost. McKENZIE.
Public notices include Sunday schedule with classes and sermons at the Christian Church, a Friday visit by Louisville merchants, cleanup duties for premises, a Jersey heifer for sale, a humorous Kentucky marriage license confusion letter, a call for more road engineers in Kentucky, and local baseball scores plus a Chamberlain's Tablets anecdote.
A Fiscal Court meeting note states all state funded roads must be directed by the State Road Commissioner and all specifications and contracts require his approval. The item is attributed to the Louisville Herald docket dated June 3. Also included is an ad for Whites Cream Vermitage claiming to expel worms in children and restore health at 25 cents a bottle sold by John Robins in Brodhead, Kentucky.
The piece accuses H. C. Kennedy, a Republican candidate for Circuit Judge, of publishing a booklet that denounces immersion and mocks the practice. It quotes passages alleging indecency and vulgarity in immersion and invites readers to view the booklet at the Somerset Herald for themselves.
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