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Newspaper
Springfield Sun
Location
Springfield, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1905
Page
3
Fragmentary directory lists Rev. J Hesikinnon Rev Latimer and Rev Wim Harrison Williams with weekly church duties noted. Mentions Sunday services and Wednesday evening meetings but text is garbled and names are uncertain.
Deputy Williams and Chief Thompson led a citizen posse to Gravel Switch to capture John Osberson after a resisted arrest. Osberson faces malicious wounding charges in Franklin Tennessee.
George Reno, an American newspaper man in Havana, clashed with a former Chicago physician and editor who mangled his copy. A witty exchange about split infinitives ends with Reno defining a split intiaitive as a tool for attaching to a calf’s nose to wean it from its mother.
The article notes a bustling junction of two roads on a Western prairie displaying freight from Florida Maine Pacific systems Pennsylvania Ohio Washington Dakota Pittsburg California Montana Iowa Minnesota and a seed corn mission. It contrasts past travel with today's unified rail service and reduced car changes for New York trips.
The text traces Oliver Wendell Holmes figures including the jurist born in 194, his Civil War service after joining the Union army, and later elevation by President Roosevelt to the U.S. Supreme Court bench. It notes he is sometimes confused with his father Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes and mentions his Harvard upbringing.
A quote asserts that journalists uniquely influence public opinion daily, while soldiers lawyers and clergy endure obscurity. It emphasizes journalists gain daily access to the community’s trust and the power to address it, unlike other professions.
The Elizabethtown News notes cold weather harmed gardens and orchards. Strawberries tomatoes and beans suffered most with many local losses. pears plums and cherries were materially damaged and sometimes destroyed. Apples looked largely spared while peaches face uncertain injury across sections of the county.
A Casey Indiana man recalls a dire night shadowed by a terrible cough. He credits Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption and Cold with easing his distress and restoring his health after suffering from a disturbing cough.
Weather conditions threaten peaches and other fruits with frost and rain. If no further frost occurs and warm weather follows, a fair peach crop may be possible. Localities report varying injury levels and uncertainties remain until after the pattern of rainfall and temperatures becomes clear.
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