02 Aug 1905
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Newspaper
Springfield Sun
Location
Springfield, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1905
Page
1
The Sun, Read Every Week by 7,000 People, serves as an advertising medium for Springfield businessmen to make successful talks to paying buyers. Subscribers can best help The Sun by remembering merchants who use it to announce bargains to the trade.
A Cincinnati Enquirer special from St Louis reports two alleged hoboes, Robert Corbett and W Clark of Springfield Kentucky, paid a $10 fine with $50 from a bank book after producing $861 on deposit. Deputies halted prison transfer and retrieved the bank book leading to breakfast at a hotel. The men, captured while trying to beat their way home, were later reported to have funds and a telegram confirmed Kentucky’s approval. The narrative adds local notices on stock sales, a magistrate case, and community church meetings.
Mr Bert Hardin delivered to The Sun office a white oak timber fragment from within six inches of the heart of a four foot oak felled on Robert Snider s farm six miles from town. The notches seven inches apart suggest an expert left handed woodsman over two centuries ago. The evidence implies a careful, nervous retreat after the final strike. The tale frames a curious historic discovery with a Holmes like deduction.
A Reader Magazine excerpt recounts Lucifer seeking a boon from God, receiving gold, and corrupting humanity with greed. The tale traces blood and tears paid for earthly power, where souls are claimed by hell as empires rise and fall.
Robert Bonner, publisher of the New York Ledger, tested bold advertising in the Herald with a single eight word line. A misread “one line” became a full page, prompting a rush of orders and the Ledger’s successful circulation boost, proving advertising power and shaping Bonner into a lifelong believer in ads.
The article notes that perfumed bath tablets in many scents saturate the body and room with fragrance, while marble surfaces should be cleaned with a paste of whiting washing soda and water, rubbed on, left to act, then washed and dried.
The Sun advertised a ten cent dish sale by Hagan Brothers for Friday and Saturday. Three hundred pieces were sold for cash during the two days.
A fragment discusses buying laundry soap by quantity and packing bars with open spaces in a dry room for better washing. It notes tea relies on a fine volatile oil present in tiny amounts and warns tea should be kept in a tightly sealed caddy to preserve its quality.
After heavy rain the Willisburg region seeks more rain while Baptist supporters plan a tent meeting to organize a church locally. The note mentions attendance at a Cornishville union gathering, visits by Dr. Mark Sutherland and son from Rose Hill, Bettie Cummins of Louisville visiting Mrs. A B Wells, and Mr. J M Trent and Ella Mae Cheatham at Tatham Springs. Also reference to W B Shirley and Elizbeth visiting New Hope and their uncle near Mound, Kentucky, followed by obituaries for Samuel Long near Cardwell and William Munsey, an old soldier.
Nelson county Fiscal Court last Friday approved one half of the Maud bridge cost and on Monday at a special term another half was funded. Washington County previously bound itself over fifteen years ago to fund its share and renewed the appropriation last April, but funds were diverted to a new bridge at Sale's Ford over Little Beech. A call meeting was ordered to authorize a fresh appropriation for the Maud bridge.
Samuel Long formerly confined with Bright's disease died unexpectedly last Saturday at 8 AM at his Cardwell home. He leaves a wife and seven children. Funeral by Rev. E. W. Sommers, burial at Mount Freedom cemetery. Also notes visits, business changes, church revival ending with 75 additions, and residents traveling to Harrodsburg, Danville, and Lawrenceburg.
Miss Marcia Pope Leachman aged 22 from Springfield Ky died at sister’s home Louisville on July 30 1906 typhoid fever. She was daughter of W H Leachman and Martha Pope Leachman survived by four sisters and father. Funeral held at Pleasant Grove Presbyterian church officiated by Rev T D Latimer with burial at Pleasant Grove cemetery.
The following dates fixed by different fair associations throughout the state for their 1906 exhibition. Subscribe for The Sum 1.00 year.
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