Kentucky Homecoming Week Rallying Kentuckians Across the Nation
Kentucky plans a grand home-coming week to unite the Commonwealth’s dispersed sons and daughters across the United States. Louisville hosts the reception for Confederate veterans while Kentuckians in states from California to New England prepare to gather. Officials anticipate welcoming one hundred thousand returning relatives, with strong participation from Ohio Illinois Indiana Missouri and many others. The appeal emphasizes kinship and hospitality as voters and residents alike rally to celebrate Kentucky’s enduring ties.
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Kentucky
Louisville
Pacific Coast
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California
Oregon
Washington
Iulia
Gebrido
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Water Shortage Warned as Forests Diminish Worldwide
In Chambers Journal J T Whitby argues global lakes and rivers shrink due to population growth and drainage, with drought linked to widespread timber loss. He urges delaying a waterless world by preserving woods, forests, and persistent replanting of trees.
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Chambers’ Journal
J. T. Whitby
Ponyman
Grave Trouble Foreseen Warns of Liver Ailment Cure
Mrs John A Young of King NY reports that liver and stomach issues plagued her until she used the medicine advertised. She claims her neu liver stomach condition improved after taking the remedy, implying grave trouble could be avoided with treatment.
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John A. Young
King, NY
Milk Thief: Cow Milk Vanishing Mystery Solved
Harrodsburg Herald reports David Yocum on the Johnson place near Cartleville found a seven foot snake wrapped around his cow’s leg feeding on milk. He killed the snake and the cow resumed normal milk output, while the reptile becomes a local curiosity.
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Harrodsburg Herald
David Yocum
Johnson Place
Cartleville
Yocum
Wreck Of The Sultana Remembered At Memphis Memorial
Captured in a vivid recollection, the account recalls the 1885 Sultana disaster near Memphis. Soldiers from Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee endured brutal heat, flames, and a treacherous river crossing. Survivors recount escape, loss, and heroism of Major Fiddler Captain McCown Parrish and Lieutenant Lurber, whose fate ended in the tragedy. The narrative closes with a solemn tribute to 1,500 drowned or missing veterans and the river's role as their final resting place.
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Memphis
Michigan
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Indiana
Kentucky
Tennessee
Mississippi
Fiddler
McCown
Parrish
Lurber
Kentucky Cavalry
Mae
W. S. Corvin
Captain McCown
No Gambling at State Fair in Lexington 1828
The Kentucky State Fair at Lexington in September 1828 will ban gambling on grounds. The Board of Control rejected large monetary offers for gambling rights to keep the fair on a high plane. Amusements will include the Heck World's Fair Pike Carnival Company shows and the Dass band, clean and moral, reproducing acts from St. Louis.
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Kentucky
Lexington
Board of Control
Aifs
St. Louis
Dass
Nothing on the Market Equal to Chamberlain's Cholera Remedy
A Joplin Missouri druggist, Witmer, proclaims there is nothing on the market equal to Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy. He urges customers to ask for it by name and notes its effectiveness for bowel complaints. Sold and recommended by C. J. Hayden, druggist.
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W.t.leachman
Nate By
C. J. Haydon
Chamberlain
Obe Witmer
Joplin
C Ustomers
C. J. Hayden
Farm For Sale in Litsey Section of Washington County
100 acres with 70 acres bottom land and 30 acres hill land. Features a new two story house and a tobacco barn. Near a school house and church with ample stock water and domestic water. Easy terms offered. Interested parties call or write E. J. Pinkston or R. M. Thompson.
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Litsey
Washington County
E. J. Pinkston
R. M. Thompson
Fraud Warning Over Counterfeit Dr King Remedies
Fraud exposed as counterfeiters push imitations of Dr King’s New Discovery for coughs colds and other medicines. Public warned to beware of impostors seeking to profit from a remedy with over 35 years of reputation.
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Dr. King
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Studebaker
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Aoe
Page
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McClure & Wells
Sonstiau
Springfield
Pride of Washington
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Springfield Roller Mills
Underwood
T. Irvine McElroy
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