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Newspaper
Springfield Sun
Location
Springfield, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1904
Page
4
In this reflection from 1905, the author contemplates a year of hardship and loss, urging readers to endure sorrow by seeking light and songs. The piece exhorts resilience, positivity, and a defiant stance against adversity as a path to happiness.
The appointment of Hon C C McChord by Iran S Mills to a nine member Inter-State Commerce Committee is a strong compliment. The Sun endorses McChord as a capable, upright leader who could win the Kentucky gubernatorial nomination and would serve the state well if nominated.
A wartime call insists on standing firm for the right while promising a forthcoming truce from the enemy camp just as night falls and stars begin to appear. Authorities urge resolve and vigilance amid mounting tensions at the fort.
Readers are urged to watch The Sun’s columns for advertised bargains in 1906. The notice emphasizes that merchants rarely quote high prices in print and stresses the value of low-priced goods speaking to the public through the newspaper.
Markets list staples and prices with garbled OCR about corn meal flour potatoes onions wheat and other goods. New Year’s in France described as a season of gift exchanges, Paris streets crowded with shoppers, and families sharing orange fruit at festive meals amid lingering customs.
The tale centers on John Wanamaker or Moneymaker, a Philadelphia dry goods dealer who spent $65 on a single Ledger advertisement to sell socks, defying merchants who warned him it wouldn t pay. The outcome shows his business swelling into many large stores while his mother suffers.
The report on German housing reform notes 500 societies active in the empire, with Berlin alone at 531 erected houses and 418 more under construction. Municipalities and crown lands support dwellings for workers, with land often public or taxed for this purpose, plus night asylums for the homeless and Crown land use by unions.
A Japanese cavalry officer describes Manchurian operations facing Europatkin forces, noting that smokeless powder hides positions and terrain hindered swift cavalry action at Liaoyang, Tehirtz, and Mukden. He argues cavalry remains essential but only with favorable ground and adequate artillery, while admitting Japanese troops are not well skilled with carbines or sabers. In a separate report, Oceana planter J. E. Christian was shot and killed by Ken Canterbury in a blind trust case.
Andrew J Thomas a traveling salesman for the Louisville Grocery Company and master of the Kitchening Lodge of Masons died of heart disease following an operation for appendicitis at Gray street Infirmary at 7 30 this morning. He underwent surgery December 10 and relapsed last Thursday. He is survived by his widow formerly Miss Ida Porter of Mt Washington Ky a son Hardin Thomas and a daughter Minnie Thomas another daughter Carrie Thomas died seventeen months ago. He came to Louisville with his family nineteen years ago and was a member of Rutherford Thomas Co later Louisville Grocery Company. He was a prominent Mason and a member of Broadway Christian church. He was a brother of Mr P J Thomas merchant at this place.
Lois Yankey sold two thousand pounds of tobacco to Will Arnold at cents. Oder and Harmon run their grist mill at Fenwick every Tuesday and Friday. Rev. W. P. Wakson from Lancaster is to preach at the Christian church in Mackville next year. Martin Mattingly and wife move to Mackville to live with Mrs. Kate Hatchett, and Mrs. Mamie Case and family relocate to town. Subscribe for The Sun, fourteen dollars yearly.
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