Editorial hails McChord for Governor bid in Kentucky
In the Bourbon County News July 17 editorial C C McChord is praised as a qualified Democrat and potential Governor candidate. The piece argues he would defeat machine-backed rivals like Beckham Hager Haley and could unite the state, urging him to announce soon despite political opposition. Roosevelt and Wellman arctic note, a suicide saloon sale in Bristol, and a weight loss pickle tale are also touched upon.
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Bourbon County News
Judge Hager
McChord
Neck of the Woods
Correction on County Unit Law Published in Bardstown
Mokcan Yeweun responds from Bardstown Kentucky July 20 1906 correcting an editorial in the Kentucky Standard about local option law. He states the law makes the whole county dry if a majority votes dry and that if the county goes wet while some precincts stay dry the dry precincts remain dry.
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Bardstown
Springfield Sun
Springfield
Kentucky Standard
Othets
Nelson
Ine
Local Social Notes from Sycamore Valley Visitations
Sycamore Valley residents report visitors and travels as Mrs Thomas McEvoy and two sons Billie and Ruthie visit Newport while Mr and Mrs T W Sutherland tour Anderson county. Others include Miss Hattle Suttles visiting Brookville relatives and J D Sutherland near Pleasant Run. The community also notes tobacco barn progress, illness of Mrs Sleet Pinkston, and trips by the Clark and McElvoy families.
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Thomas McEvoy
Billie
Ruthie
Newport
T. W. Sutherland
Anderson County
Zack Crow
Juanita Bishop
Illinois
Davis
W. E. Sutherland
Pleasant Run
Lillie Tumey
Mixes Pearl Hickson
McElvoy
John Armstrong
Myrtle
C. A. Pinkaton
J.D. Sutherland
Thomas McIlroy
Local notices and social updates from Willisburg area
Sunday relatives visited Willisburg with Mrs. Shields and Ladie Coulter. Maud and Eva Inman visited the Montgomery family. Ora Merritt is very ill. Jim Showmaker and wife visited their daughter Mrs. Bob Showmaker. Maud Eva Inman Emmett Showmaker attended Mackville meeting. J D Sutherland and wife returned from Anderson county. Judge Thurman to speak on local option at Hillsboro church next Sunday night. Lightning struck Rev Sutherland's barn causing minor damage. Sutherlands escaped harm. Readers asked for miller grinding data and local option answers especially whisky handling by doctors or druggists.
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Willisburg
J. M. Shields
Ladie Coulter
Tatham Springs
Maud
Eva Inman
Montgomery
Ora Merritt
Jim Showmaker
Bob Showmaker
Emmett Showmaker
Mackville
J. D. Sutherland
Anderson County
J. H. Thurman
Hillsboro
W. E. Sutherland
Harrodsburg Tragedy Details Family Murder Case
Cordie Salle, 13, led her injured eight year old brother into Harrodsburg as she reported their mother Salida Sallee found dead by a roadside. Coroner investigated and found Sallee dead with four children near her. The case centers on Howard Watts accused of killing Sallee with a butcher knife in Cincinnati and later pursued to Harrodsburg, where Watts was jailed after denial of the crime.
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Harrodsburg
Cordie Salle
Wm. Carter
Salida Sallee
Burtgin
Cordie
Te Wan
Watts
Cincinnati
Hurgin
Howard Watts
Samuel Watts
Bowel Complaint in Children Promoted Remedy
A brief notice advises attention to early bowel looseness in children during summer. It promotes Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Rem as the best medicine to control bowel disturbances in both children and adults, noting availability through reliable dealers in the Blue Grass.
Nelson County Speakers Announced For Next Week
The article lists speaking engagements in Nelson County including Father Hagerty at Bellwood Picnic Monday July 28 at 3 o'clock, and in Nelsonville Monday evening July 23. W C Carver and Morgan Yewel speak at Fairfield Tuesday July 24 afternoon, and at Bloomfield Tuesday night July 24, with Chaplin Wednesday night July 25. Also reports a man in the Ohio River rescue near Cincinnati, two drownings in Bowling Green Kentucky, and Judge Black declining to serve on the advisory board in Louisville area.
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Father Hagerty
Bellwood
Nelsonville
W. C. Carver
Morgan Yewel
Fairfield
Bloomfield
Chaplin
Local Notes From Mackville and Surrounding Areas
Mackville community shares welcome showers for farmers especially tobacco growers. Local church ladies prepare for quarterly meeting midweek. B. Peters & Co. report heavy lambe shipments. Local residents Andrew and Frank Yankee visited family here. Mrs. Dell Green of Sturgeon Mo returns home after visiting Kentucky and nearby counties. Robbert Bottoms welcomes a new baby boy. Beasie and Lamarine Whipple of Louisville visit. Ethel Turner returns from Indianapolis where she worked as a milliner. Bertha Gabbart returns home from Rose Hill after visiting relatives.
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M. E. Church
B. Peters & Co
Andrew
Frank Yankee
Rena
Dell Green
Sturgeon
Old Kentucky
Green
J. D. Sweeney
Martha Tumey
M. M. Sweeney
Stanford
Robbert Bottoms
Beasie
Lamarine Whipple
Louisville
Ethel Turner
Indianapolis
Ind
Bertha Gabbart
Rose Hill
BucklenArnica Salve Adverts in Local Notice
An old advertisement promotes Bucklen's Arnica Salve as a guaranteed remedy sold by Jaydon Drugist, credited to C.J. Hi Be and Mrs. Grant Sh. The fragment hints at a general health claim and a promise of relief or benefit to readers, typical of period classified medical ads.
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Joe S. Claybrooke
Chas. D. Robertson
Bucklen
Grant
C.J. Hi
Bejaydon
Farms for Sale Across Region with Various Acreages
A cluttered classified listing advertises numerous farms for sale including 150 acres with a 7 room house near Burgin at 45 per acre, 100 acres near Harrodsburg at 65, 200 acres near Me with walnut trees at 70, 240 acres near Vanarsdale Station at 40, and multiple other parcels 35 to 313 acres. It notes well improved land, favorable river and railroad proximity, and prices ranging from 40 to 100 per acre, plus one 81500 entry.
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Burgin
Harrodsburg
Salt River
Vanaradall R. R
McAfee
R. R
Todgerea
Steht
Salvisa
Enrenmey
Bistow
Washington County
Mackihne
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Ben Jonson
Bardatown
Nelson County
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Elizabethtown
Hardin County
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Robert Noe
Roosevelt
Walter Wellman
Arctic
Mr. Wellman
Pole
Jerry Miller
Bristol, Tenn
Anti-Saloon League
St. Louis
the Daily Herald
Columbian College
Aes College
Sycamore Valley
Mat Inman
Sleet Pinkston
L. M. Clark
Cardwell
Thomas Coulter
Ohio
Bowling Green
Lidia Willams
Asher Potter
D. Markham
W. T. Ewing
Real Estate Agency
Harrodsburg, Ky
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