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Newspaper
Springfield Sun
Location
Springfield, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1904
Page
2
The piece previews fashion shifts toward smaller sleeves and narrower waists, with gathered materials and short shoulders. It notes ribbon belts, pompadour lace ribbon details, and decorative bows. New colors like oulon and saffron rise, while white cloth remains dominant in tailor made outfits. soft ivory suede trimmings and tartan inspired fabrics appear in bodices and frocks.
Discussion highlights sweet corn canneries as a safe, profitable industry boosting dairy and land value, employing unskilled labor during canning season and providing wages. It notes optimism for regional manufacturing and cites political claims about U S Marshal race results amid rival figures and official tallies.
A Louisiana Christmas scene unfolds as Clarisse and her husband plead not to split their family. At a planter gathering, colonel Sinclair and Alice propose a collective purchase to buy the child Bobby’s freedom, funded by subscriptions from present allottments. The plan succeeds when a speaker pledges his own money, and Bobby is freed, the mother embracing him as the crowd reflects on the holiday mercy.
A reader’s memory of the poem Little Orphant Annie by James Whitcomb Riley. The verses describe Annie’s chores around a home and warn of goblins if mischief continues, ending with a reflective line about the orphan’s pity and aid for the needy.
The Cincinnati Enquirer argues against a total ban on headache drugs, noting heart risks from aspirin compounds and the rise of powder aids. It urges medical guidance to treat underlying causes such as eye strain and ear disorders, while offering non drug remedies like cold towels, hot pads, mustard plasters, and walks at the first warning signs.
Rev J W Cunningham presents new details on how Longfellow drew facts from Missionary George Kohway a Chippewa Indian via Rev Marcus Lindsay to write Hiawatha The piece also notes a Japanese squadron heading to meet the Russian Pacific squadron and reports Jacob Kuhn’s fatal fall from a fourth story window in Evansville.
Mrs Hallie Briscoe wife of Ed Briscoe Cox's Creek died last Sunday after a long invalid illness. Samuel Houck venerable citizen High Grove died last Sunday after protracted illness due to old age, in his seventies.
In Maud, George and Jack Thomas used a cedar bash and a horse to churn a droughted pool and scoop fish, aided by John Brown and W. P. Shehan hauling water. A hundred top fish were kept, others released. The Mississippi penitentiary reports the pardon of its only white woman convict, Governor Vardaman announces.
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