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Newspaper
Richmond Daily Register
Location
Richmond, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1920
Page
5
The article advises sowing late spinach now to carry through winter with straw mulch. It promotes the New Zealand variety as able to grow through summer and recommends allowing seedlings to mature before mulching. It notes an unusually large supply of birds and quail in Madison county this year.
The season for choves starts at the first of the month as many prepare to take advantage in the first week. Several parties are said to plan departure from Richmond early next week to spend some time in the region.
Carlo B. Marion marshal of Horse Creek mining camp died from liver-penetrating wounds after a shooting by Will Smith. Smith and a woman were jailed awaiting an examining trial before County Judge Roy B. House. Marion’s dying statement said Smith admitted going to Manchester and Marion asked about whisky before being shot twice. Witnesses include Deputy Moses Lewis and a nearby milking woman. Marion, born in Owsley county, had been away west for years, then settled in Manchester two years ago and was known as an able officer.
About 200 farmers in Kentucky's Second district gathered in Henderson to form the Farmers' Bureau Tobacco Company. The plan calls for a corporation to market tobacco, issuing stock at 100 dollars per five acres with a 6 percent annual dividend and control of at least 60 percent of the dark tobacco in Kentucky. A committee including W T Harris Louis Hancock and Henry S Derry will draft the articles of incorporation, aiming to start within 60 days.
Louisville grocer J Gold advertises 17 cent sugar and shows 10,000 pounds in bags outside his shop to prove no shortage. This morning a note appeared on his door demanding sugar stay at 18 cents or higher.
An advertisement touts Bayer Tablets of Aspirin as genuine and proven safe for over twenty years. It stresses an unbroken Bayer package with directions for relief from headache toothache earache neuralgia rheumatism colds and pain. It notes small tins cost a few cents and druggists offer larger packages. It cites Bayer as the trade mark and monoacetic acid ester of salicylic acid.
Washington reports that after the latest rate changes, fewer pounds of cotton beef sugar and wheat are needed to pay freight costs than in October 1916. Comparisons show lower effective freight practicality for a 500-pound bale of cotton, a 20,000-pound car of beef, a 100-pound sugar load, and a 60,000-pound car of wheat despite higher nominal rates.
D G Martin announces a public sale on Wednesday September 1 at his Irvine Pike residence two miles east of Richmond. Items include old fashion Mohair parlor furniture a corner cupboard table chest of drawers three Jersey cows two milking, one driving horse wagon harness and many other items with terms to be announced sale day.
One abutment at Otter Creek bridge near Red House is finished and a second is underway with three piers planned. Grade work on the far side nears completion and concrete is laid. The near side work is paused to keep the roadway open, aiming to finish the bridge before restarting that side. Delays due to material have abated and no further holds are expected.
The church walls are rapidly taking form and the extensive work is being realized. The building will be enclosed in a short time.
Police report a well dressed woman found deceased on rocks near the fort on Staten Island New York. Authorities investigate the scene and determine the cause of death pending autopsy results.
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