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On the back page of the May 19, 1875 issue of the Paris True Kentuckian appears this notice:

Notice

to

FLOUR-EATING DELINQUENTS

                                           A number of persons have neglected

                                              to pay their Flour accounts for the

                                              first six months of the present year and

                                              due first of past July; and moreover are

                                              building other flour accounts of the same

                                              size, which will fall due the first of coming

                                              January.

                                                  Now, this is to notify ALL SUCH PAR-

                                              TIES that their flour account at Paris Mills

                                              will be DISCONTINUED after the 1st of

                                              January, and not re-opened again until we get

                                              our pay.  The fact is,  if persons cannot

                                              pay their Bread Accounts, after receiving such

                                              unheard-of indulgence, we most assuredly

                                              cannot and will not furnish them any longer

                                              without pay.   Now,   this   is   the   Word

                                              with   the   Bark   on.  We cannot obtain

                                              supplies of Wheat, Corn, Coal, and labor

                                              of operatives on such terms -NO, not on

                                              any terms but paying the cash flat down.

                                              Let us just here make a few truthful re-

                                              marks: It is not the poor, toiling, strug-

                                              gling needle-woman, who uses artificial

                                              light at both ends of the day to prosecute

                                              her arduous duties, that it the delinquent.

                                              But, I am sorry to say, in the majority of

                                              cases it is parties who lack the disposition

                                              rather than ability  - parties who innocently

                                              suppose that wheat pours down from "a

                                              hole in the sky" and fills our granaries-

                                              that coal is unheaved by volcanic action

                                              and pitched into our coal-bin -- that opera-

                                              tives flock in droves and work for us for the

                                              mere love of working, and of course mak-

                                              ing no charge for their service.  Now, we

                                              wish to correct these very erroneous im-

                                              pressions.

                                                      Yours, in Dead Earnest,

                                                                  WM SHAW, Paris Mills

Ok you Flour Eating Delinquents, pay your bills.  You know who you are.

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