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Newspaper
Springfield Sun
Location
Springfield, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1904
Page
6
A long fragment discusses a table comparing employment in agriculture manufacturing and mining across nations. It notes the United States has high nonagricultural work and cites England France Russia and Sweden in contrasts. It ends by urging Sun subscriptions.
A European perspective on theater fire safety cites German censorship practices and calls for government action to protect patrons after a Chicago blaze. It notes U.S. and French trade imbalances, shipyard orders on the Great Lakes, canal and feeder channel improvements, and a U.S. legal stance against guessing contests as lotteries.
Two travelers from Lincoln Nebraska endured a perilous river trip in Mexico. After a swift river, a fall from a tree, and days wandering a thorny forest they fought heat fevers and thirst, and struggled along the riverbank until reaching a savanna and the old Aztec trail. They reached Tatahalenfa then Mexico City in time to tell the tale.
A fragmentary verse piece titled Out There Asleep laments a departed loved one with repeated phrases about sorrow and sleep. The page also notes a fire at the A. D. Parr Lumber Company in Clarksburne destroying W Vig and killing Oscar Beatty while coon hunting near Menominee.
Messrs Orville Arnold and Rapier Hayden sold to Mr Rogers of Pulaski Tenn a carload of mules at 85 dollars per head. They also sold to Lewis Hayden of Nelson county twenty head of extra yearling mules at 160 dollars each. Jailer Roby boasts swine gains from July 1 to November 2 without corn feeding, using jail slop, with several hogs growing from 40 to potentially 500 pounds. Smith Wheeler and Spalding shipped a carload of cattle weighing around 1400 pounds bound for the East market. A.V. Bean of Lenore found a double melt while hog-killing Tuesday.
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