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Newspaper
Mount Vernon Signal
Location
Mount Vernon, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1913
Page
3
A fragment reads times 4 59 pm 3 53 am 11 38 a W, suggesting a partial timetable or schedule snippet with late night and early morning entries. The garbled OCR limits precise event or location details, but the strings resemble clock times tied to a transportation or service timetable.
Residents and visitors such as Mrs. Hugh Miller, David Craig, Miss Ruth Reppert, Wheeler Meadows, and J. T. were noted in Berea and nearby towns. The list covers visits, business trips, engagements, medical notes, social events, and church activities across Mount Vernon and surrounding areas.
Local display shows the largest line of mens shirts in town priced from 50e to 1.50. W H Brown and James G Anderson are listed with phone numbers and Newcomb Ave address. Oold Fellows honor Decoration Day with a procession and cemetery ceremony joined by Rebekahs.
A Courier Journal dispatch reports Joe Smith an extra gang foreman killed at 6 am when struck by an Armstrong and Bragg work train near Typo. Ashcraft fled. Smith leaves a wife and five children. Another item recounts D B Logan Jr of Pineville dying after swallowing strychnine in a drugstore incident. The piece also covers a Crab Orchard Milling Co. visit praising new equipment and flour grades White Fawn, Our Pride and Old Honesty.
An advertisement proclaims deafness arises from inflammation of the Eustachian tube and catarrh. It offers one hundred dollars for any deafness caused by catarrh that Hall's Catarrh Care Cure cannot cure and promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
The Commercial Club met Wednesday night to discuss railroad connections at Junction City and the Tom Thumb entertainment. A committee with state railroad commission contacts will seek a remedy, with the electric list decision to be settled next meeting. If the current party walks away, other bidders will take over. Papers and addresses from the last meeting were extended to next week, with expectations of favorable talks and cheaper prospects.
S. L. Heeter, superintendent of schools at Pittsburg, was discharged Saturday by the City Board of Education after being convicted of immorality by a citizen committee.
A public health notice warns against rapid eating and promotes thorough mastication and salivation. It notes indigestion and constipation from fast meals and recommends Chamberlain's Tablets, easy to take and effective, sold by Chas. C. Davis.
For sale or trade to stock is one 20 horsepower boiler and engine, saw mill, grist mill, shingle mill, line shaft, belting, pulleys, and all related accessories. The seller is R L McFerron located in Mount Vernon Kentucky with date May 30.
Old men and women feel the need of a laxative more than young folks yet it must be safe and harmless. Dr Kings New Life Pills are especially good for the aged as they act promptly and easily. Price 25c. Recommended by Chas Davis.
Testimony at a government hearing links Standard Oil to Magnolia Petroleum Company of Corsicans, amid a $90 million penalty suit against oil firms and individuals.
Mothers warned children may show indigestion headaches nervous weakness and colic when worms are present. A candy lozenge Kickapoo Worm Killer is advertised to expel worms regulate bowels and tone the system. Guaranteed. Sold by druggists or mail Philadelphia and St Louis.
Colorado Governor Ammons urged allocating public domain control to the states during Saturday’s Governors conference in Salt Lake City. He argued state management would better reflect local needs and costs, framing the debate over federal versus state authority on public lands.
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