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Newspaper
Springfield Sun
Location
Springfield, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1906
Page
8
A long OCR list details numerous prize categories and winners across crafts, quilts, embroidery, lace, fabrics, fruits, vegetables, poultry, and livestock. Numerous individuals and county names appear with awards for best plates, collections, and specific animals, reflecting a large regional fair with many winning entries and exhibitors.
Washington county entries list best roadster and saddle classes with owners such as W W Raybourne I C New York Saddle Class J W Hughes and many more. Beef cattle awards include best head Browne Thurman and herd notes from Conrad Hertlein Aged cow and calf classes plus Jersey cow entries A C Kimball and Maria McElroy in show with saddle horses and harness horses judged across multiple rings and ages.
One man was killed and several men were wounded in a general fight last Sunday night near Slayersville Kentucky. Illinois Central announces excursions to Conliat Grayson Springs Kentucky California and Colorado with extremely low round trip rates on the first and third Tuesdays of each month and daily excursions to Hot Springs Arkansas Through sleeper service from Louisville to California Arizona and Texas with full particulars available from F W HARLOW D P Louisville Ky
Armored cruiser North Carolina will launch at Newport News shipyard on October 6. Des Moines suffers heat casualties with one death and many prostrations as the state endures extreme heat. Celtic grounded at Guantanamo Bay but quickly freed and sailed for New York. Naval Academy says Secretary Bonaparte will deliver the September graduation address to the first class. Jury in Breathitt county feud case against B F French, John Smith and John Abner disagrees. Bordeaux cardinal Lecout says bishops will act after December 9 when separation law takes effect. Odessa antisemitic journal blames Prefect Gregorlieff for anarchist outrages and calls for his removal. U S Denmark parcels post convention effective October 1 sets minimum weight. Shallenberger cautions railway postal staff on respectful relations with railroads and others. Cannon Hall train No 6 derailed near Mesquite. several cars left tracks while racing.
A verse attributed to Harry Ellard in the National Advocate laments life’s troubles as the “whisky at the bottom of it all.” The poem links deceit, financial loss, broken homes, crime, and death to alcohol’s role in human downfall, urging awareness of its root cause as life’s course proceeds.
A rural proverb urges thrift in a household as sunlit days may end. Dysentery Cholera Morbus and diarrhea threaten sudden illness and immediate care is vital. Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy is touted as the best known medicine and should be kept at hand for urgent treatment offered by reliable dealers in the Blue Grass.
A local notice lists multiple residents offering for sale livestock and farm goods. Cheatham Mooreaville offers 14 hogs about 100 pounds. Clements Rt. 2 advertises seed wheat. Leachman Sheffield lists mares, Jersey calves. Riley Route 3 promotes four shoats, polein China stock. Wheatley Route 2 offers a short horn bull. Sherman Martin Springfield sells a mare with mule, steer calf, geese, sow and pigs. Benedict Clements town lists oak lumber.
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