23 Dec 1908
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Newspaper
Springfield Sun
Location
Springfield, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1908
Page
1
The Springfield Sun announces no issue next week to honor Christmas. The editorial fondly recalls Santa Claus memories, the little red top boots, and childhood joy, urging readers to relish past holiday beauty and memories.
A prose tribute to Santa Claus contrasts myth with Christ birth and calls out treasonous rhetoric against the American flag. It envisions millions of children inspired by Santa and condemns those who deny symbol of liberty and love, urging national unity and reverence.
Editor Walton of the Kentucky State Journal laments a lawyer who defended Judge Beech Hargis in life and now profits from denigrating the late judge James Hargis. He argues perjury should be a capital offense and suggests swift punishment for the guilty.
A Louisville Herald dispatch notes President-elect Taft attended a New York banquet famed for its financiers. The table featured J. D. Rockefeller and kin with John D. Archbold, J. G. Milburn, and other Wall Street leaders. Roosevelt’s and Hitchcock’s denials followed Rockefeller’s campaign pledge.
Reverend J W McGarvey of Lexington Bible College argues a shark ate Jonah, challenging the biblical claim of a whale. The writer notes the debate matters little to them but invites Dick Knott to weigh in, given his wide range of knowledge on the topic.
A neighbor calls the speaker Little Boy Blue and offers to help trim their Christmas tree. He recalls past gifts like a sled and says he would like to provide lights wax flowers popcorn and berries. He notes the neighbor has no tree but wishes to share in decorating.
Opinion piece denounces Standard Oil paying Moritz Rosenthal a $100,000 annual retainer and $1,000 daily for antitrust work. It argues the public is to blame for tolerating such wealth, portraying greed and consumer oppression as pervasive in America.
A vivid denunciation of industrial capitalism detailing child labor in American factories. It portrays exhausted children, meager wages, and mothers torn by poverty, arguing greed causes death, suffering, and lost liberty as industry prospers on human cost.
The piece mocks Tom Watson’s presidential bid with Kentucky votes and 83 871 total nationwide. It likens the defeat to a salvage sale of “soiled suits” and headlines a critique of Count Boni de Castellane seeking access to his children.
The piece condemns nominating theft as equal to train robbery, arguing fraudulent office holders loot rights of suffrage and damage parties. It labels ballot stuffing and false returns as massive crimes and urges party unity against such thieves including calls against Gov Willson and anti saloon figures amid political infighting.
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