Tobacco tax debate missives aired in Elizabethtown
A local editor letters page rebuts a July News piece on tobacco taxation. It argues the Bradley amendment does not grant growers manufacturing rights and warns growers about legal fines for twisting or processing tobacco without paying tax while noting an eight cent per pound levy under the Aldrich bill and Continental Tobacco Company influence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam
Aldrich
Continental’ Tobacco Company
Or Trust
Hardship Description Dictates Grower Bookkeeping
A reader reports that the grower must maintain a memorandum of sales and account to the Revenue Agent. The obligation requires thorough and accurate books. The note is attributed to Rogers Gore from Hodgenville Kentucky dated July 15, 1909.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rogers Gore
Hodgenville, Ky
Examination To Be Held For State University
The County Superintendent will hold an examination for appointments to the State University of Lexington on Saturday July 31. Examinations cover spelling arithmetic grammar geography and history. An appointment includes free tuition at the State University. Appointment saves about fifty to seventy five dollars in tuition. Remember the date before it is too late. There are two or three vacancies from Washington county. Also notice Chamberlains Salve offers rapid relief for skin itching and smarting, priced at 25 cents, through Leo Haydon Drug Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State University of Lexington
Washington County
Chamberlain
Leo Haydon Drug Co
All Dental Work Strictly First Class in Springfield
Springfield dental notice advertises top quality work offered by a local dentist located in the Hagen Block upstairs.
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Springfield
Hagen Block
Local News Notes and Advertisements
Local notes report a bicycle shop opening by Mas Lampton and Bobbie Shultz and real estate moves including a 91 acre farm near Booker sold for 40 dollars per acre. Various ads urge mail orders, cleaning services, Paris Green pesticide, a 5 dollar Oliver typewriter for sale, and a trust ad seeking a regional advertiser for a mail order house. Nearby incidents include a coroner’s inquest over a well found infant and a work accident injuring a L N railroad section hand.
Valley Hill Social Notes Show Local Visitors
Mrs Lucien Pinkston visited relatives at Litsey midweek and fell ill. Miss Bessie Roberts of Springfield was guest of Miss Pearl Goatley. Misses Virginia and Nellie Foster were guests of Miss R O Neal. Homer Bradshaw and wife from Nelson County visited Mr and Mrs Wm Bradshaw. Petsey Briggs visited Bloomfield last week. Nell and Beatrice Foster of Louisville visited Miss Pearl Goatley. Robert, Vivian and Bradley Tatum and Herbert Snider were guests at Elm Hill. Mr and Mrs Edward Goatley visited near Poln Sunday. Mrs Ben Jones of Science Hall visited Sunday. Mr and Mrs C P Goatley waved relatives at Hardesty. Ernest Gray and sister from Hardesty were in town Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lucien Pinkston
Litsey
Bessie Roberts
Springfield
Pearl Goatley
Virginia
Nellie Foster
R. O'Neal
Homer Bradshaw
Nelson County
Wm. Bradshaw
Petsey Briggs
Bloomfield
Nell and
Beatrice Foster
Louisville
Robert
Vivian
Bradley Tatum
Herbert Snider
Elm Hill
Edward Goatley
Poln
Ben Jones
Science Hall
C. P. Goatley
Hardesty
Ernest Gray
President Aids Orphans At Macon Home
The president of the Industrial and Orphans Home in Macon Georgia reports using Electric Bitters for nine years. He praises the medicine for stomach, liver and kidney troubles, claiming it purifies blood, aids digestion, improves appetite, and strengthens weak or run-down constitutions especially for women.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Industrial and Orphan's Home
Macon
Eefres
Haydon
Life Insurance Offers 20 Year Contracts and Disability Support
A local notice promotes life insurance from Southern National Life. It guarantees payout in 15 years under a 20 year contract and mentions agents Leo Haydon and Lee VanArndale with E. T. Wigginton as General Agent. The advert targets families seeking welfaresupport in case of total disability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leo Haydon
Lee VanArndale
Southern National Life Insurance Co
E. T. Wigginton
Those Who Wave Stomach Trouble Help Promoted
After twelve years of stomach trouble and spending about five hundred dollars on medicine, Samuel Boyer says he bought one box of Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets for his wife. The tablets helped her greatly and she continued using them, more effective than all previous medicines.
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Chamberlain
Samuel Boyer
Crusade Against Rate Exterminates Pests Across Boroughs
Denmark implements a rat extermination policy with a national rate of £1 1800 yearly and boroughs 3d per 100 persons per year. Each rat is said to cost a farthing daily in damage. Over 18 weeks the rate of destruction reached 103000.
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Denmark
Orisonal
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Springfield Sun
L. Smith
Aromas
Jupee
I. H. Thurman
C. 5. Hill
Marion County
T. D. Graham
B. L. Litsey
W. F. Booker
Cmecurt
Robt. Noe
T. Scott Mayes
Suerier
S. J. Anderson
ScHoo
J.W. Bush Janen
Geo. D. Catlett
W. T. Mitchell
W. E. Crume
Luxvevor
Wnm
G. Roberts
H. A. Sommers
News
Elizabethtown
Mr. Sommers
Owsley Stanley
Proctor Knott Chautauqua
Ass'n
Lebanon, KY
Arrayod
Kellogg-Haiges Singing Party
Base
Wirh Lowther
J. M. Cleary Goy
Joseph Folk
Layega Clements
Edward Reno
Lenora Lake
Vosburgh Rey
R.A. Willetts
Campbellsville
Lebanon
Greensburg
New Haven
Columbia
C. D. Thomas
Sec’v. Lebanon, KY
G. T. Burton
Messrs
Mas. Lampton
Bobbie Shultz
Brown Paris Green Co
Simms, Ky
Ladies Aid Society of the Christian Church
J. A. Tong
Joe Smith
Court House
T. J. Miller
Willisburg
W. S. Poulter
G. C. Wharton
Treas
Hardin Warner
Joe Y
B. B. Leachman
Beechland
Enterprise
Haypon & Repertson
Wood Milburn
Milburn
Links Bay
Paris
Paris Green Co
Oliver Typewriter
StrAvep
Jersey
Richard Riley
J. R. Mayes
Mayes
Fredericktown
New York
Clarke Co
Park Ave
Valley Hill
Deneneceo
the Sun
J. A. Sympson
Jack
J. A.cecil
Admr
Life Insurance
Springfeld
Mackville
Good Pike
Lake & Bosley
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