Mail Subscribers Pay Up and Advance for Subscriptions
A newspaper urges subscribers to pay any outstanding balances and to prepay for up to a year. It cites post office rules limiting renewal handling, notes most pay willingly, but some stop paper. The editor defends the advance request as fiscally necessary and cost-saving while warning against continued mail notices. The piece also blends political and local notes about Adams county voting and the May 27 Democratic primary. It ends with a local ad for Vic Bloomfield Co. bargains on clothing and menswear.
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Post Office Department
Soon Be On The Job Again Ship Shape Hire
A brief note notes a person returning to work soon and asks how he is prepared to receive him. The tone suggests emphasis on order and readiness to present a ship shaped operation.
Parisian Sage credited as hair grower and dandruff cure
Letters from Marlboro Massachusetts and other towns praise Parisian Sage as a perfect satisfaction hair grower and dandruff killer. Testimonials claim thicker, more luxurious hair with dandruff eliminated. Package features a girl with Auburn hair. large bottle priced at 50 cents. money back guarantee from Phillips and druggists.
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Marlboro
Mass
M. Clough
Phillips
Ex-Congressman A B Montgomery Dies in Elizabethtown
Elizabethtown Kentucky December 28 Ex-Congressman A B Montgomery died after a long illness He was a member of the Dawes Indian commission under President Cleveland
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Elizabethtown
A. B. Montgomery
Dawes Indian Commission
Cleveland
Dr King’s New Life Pills Advertised Cure
A Buffalo resident A Lehingeck of 647 Elm Street proclaims Dr King’s New Life Pills cured chronic constipation when others failed. The ad touts relief for biliousness jaundice indigestion headache chills malaria and debility. 25 cents at Winchester Drug Company.
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Dr. King
A. Lehingeck
Elm St
Buffalo
N. Y
Winchester Drug Company
Bucklen’s Arnica Salve Beat Winter Troubles
To many, winter is a season of trouble. Bucklen's Arnica Salve promises relief for frost bite symptoms and common skin ailments. A trial convinces of healing burns, boils, piles, cuts, sores, eczema and sprains. Only 25 cents at Winchester Drug Company.
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Bucklen
Arnica
Winchester Drug Company
Night watchman ends life with own gun at mill
Avery Shanklin a 21 year old night watchman at Lexington Roller Mills telephoned his superintendent confessing he was tired of living and then shot himself five minutes later. He had spoken from the mill office to W. W. Patterson before pulling the trigger.
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Lexington
Avery Shanklin
Shanklin
Joseph Chandler
Shank
Tragic mill fireward death from self-inflicted shot
Patterson and Tate investigated a mill after a watchman feared for Shanklin. Shanklin, tired of living, visited the fourth floor lockers to change clothes, then fired a self-inflicted shot. His body lay between the lockers and the stairway on the fourth floor.
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Patterson
J. D. Tate
The
Mills
Stanklin
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Winchester News
Winchester News CO
South Main Street
Winchester, Kentucky
Winchester
Kentucky
By Mail
New York
Chicago
Adams County
Ohio
Democratic State Committee
Vic Bloomfield & Co
Santa Claus
Tention
Ber
Winchester Lumber and Manufacturing Co
Banks
Fire Insurance Co.’s
W. T. Ogden
Brown-Proctoria Pharmacy
CHAS
Gib. B. Hampton
S. D. Goff
Ben F Curtis
Rk. D. Fitch
Asst
Clark County
Strother’s Insurance Agency
Opera House
Buffalo Bill
Wid West
Pawnee Bill
Far East
Carrithers Jeweler
Coats
Artis & Turnbull
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