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Newspaper
Springfield Sun
Location
Springfield, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1906
Page
8
A Raywick Kentucky letter highlights how local option closed saloons and boosted business. The piece contrasts Raywick and Chicago near Marion and Nelson counties, noting new stores a bank and better roads after dry policy. Merchants praise increased trade, higher property values, and prosperity since the whisky vote.
Raywick Ky Aug 25 1906 letter from Y D Russell grocery and produce merchant praising local option. He says the town would not have saloons again under any conditions and prefers dry towns for business and customers. He notes opening two new stores and organizing a bank since the vote and calls local option beneficial for merchants and social improvement.
A Springfield item notes that dysentery and cholera may strike any member of a household, urging immediate use of Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. It also lists uncalled letters for week ending August 29, 1906, including Ophelius Borders and Nannie Brown.
Advertises Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy claiming long use by dealers and thousands of testimonials. Promotes lifetime value and urges immediate purchase with appeal to saving lives and quick delivery.
Kentucky announces large purses and excursions for the Louisville State Fair at Churchill Downs. Attendance will see farm exhibits, livestock displays, and a horticultural hall with tobacco wheat and fruit on view. Reduced railroad rates from across Kentucky and a program of four daily races accompany hundreds of attractions and moral amusements.
A mixed digest notes the Ketowah society of Cherokee adjourns to avoid white-party politics. 3000 townsmen in Zanesville celebrate Gen RGB Brown’s election as Grand Army of the Republic commander. Milneis Lutheran league in Springfield reports on its annual convention. King Alfonso signals approval on a religious question. The minister of justice weighs abolishing religious oaths in courts. W R Crosby wins the Western Handicap at the Interstate Trapshooters’ event in Denver. Ohio Free Baptist association urges union of Baptist and Free Baptist denominations. A Detroit conference ends with a fish dinner hosted by Hannibal Hopkins. Nicholas I aids Livonian nobility by allowing mortgaging six estates in Wenden. Harvard crew’s Putney performance unsettles Cambridge prospects. Senator Warner and Rep Ellen protest a proposed Kansas City railway bridge before Taft, fearing harbor damage and injustice to Kansas City.
Gov Lanham announced a telegram from Gen McCaskey stating Negro soldiers held on civil warrants at Fort Brown are being moved to Fort Sam Houston by presidential order and shall remain under Texas jurisdiction. The move follows Lanham's protest over the Fort Brown removals. Two railway workers died and three injured in a head on collision near Milltown on the Bessemer Lake Erie line. speed reported at 60 mph with significant property loss and traffic delays.
Chas W Moore a Ford City machinist burned his hand in an electrical furnace. He used Bucklen’s Arnica Salve and achieved a quick and perfect cure. Available 25 cents at C J Haydon druggist in the area.
A rustic folk ballad tells of Maud Muller riding a benzine powered car with companions to a preacher. A scent of benzine fills the air as a mule named June is driven hard, a collision ensues, and a man dies of heartbreak. The tale ends with a cautionary moral about seeking permission before pursuing a girl.
Readers advertise farm items for sale including seed wheat, 16-year-old horse, spring wagons, harness, hogs ready to weigh 100 pounds, Jersey cattle and calves, back stock from Dee Kiley Route 3, four wheats purebred pigs, and other farm products. Multiple names and locations in Kentucky and nearby areas are listed.
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