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Newspaper
Springfield Sun
Location
Springfield, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1907
Page
4
The Springfield Sun greets 1907 with philosophic musings on time, nudges toward resilience, and hopeful wishes. It notes the need to face life’s snags, invokes religious imagery, and vows to stand by its editorial stance while offering blessings to friends and enemies alike for a prosperous year.
A speech extols the farmer as the nation’s power and warns that withholding farm goods could trigger global hunger. It humorously imagines John Rockefeller and Theodore Roosevelt forced to subsist on backyard potatoes and hunting, while political bodies falter amid imagined food shortages.
A farmer recalls a salesman posing as a truyl established nursery representative offering large plant orders with added freebies in exchange for an immediate signed order. He warns others about misrepresentation and travel for profit schemes, urging careful verification of firm names and locations. The piece also includes notes on dry farming, rural box numbering, cricket temperature cues, and a humorous animal-horse anecdote.
The speaker asserts a need to withdraw and starve, but credits a generous farmer who desires a fair arrangement. The text expresses relief that farmers are uniting to demand a square deal and to organize for self-protection against hardship.
Nelson County sales report Tom Conley sold the 183 acre Withrow farm near Barstown to Frank Simpson for 6500 dollars. Conley also sold a carload of mules to Hudson Brothers of Louisville at 170 dollars each. A Bloomfield correspondent notes Georgia buyer A M Bell purchased four mules from Ike McMakin and Sam Sullivan supplied two more loads. Wakefield and McClaskey reported a Jersey sale of fifteen cows and assorted heifers. Tobacco is shipped to market daily with strong prices from the American Tobacco Company.
The health of City Marshal Grace remains not improved with recovery chances still remote. Meanwhile, all debtors to McElroy and Shultz are urged to settle accounts. books are kept at the old stand.
Fragmentary ledger text shows liabilities and assets figures including 236409.91 and 5000.00 with cash on hand amounts 678.98 and 89821.48. The line reads Ban 50,000.00 ee, house and fixtures, indicating a balance related entry. Further context needed for full interpretation.
Rext-Corn and oats land offered through Mrs Laura West Springfield Ky fenced farms for sale via W T Ewing Harrodsburg Ky list of farms and property frames made to order. Notice warns I have not authorized tobacco purchases in my name. Arch Wheeler estate claims due by Dec 1 1907 and debts to be settled by Jan 1 1907 attorney W P Grigsby Springfield Ky Clarkson estate notice and sale of 164 acre Farm near Springfield with 22 per acre price verdict and details through dec 1906.
A local recap from Mooresville covers prospecting trips by Luther Barlow and Milton Chesser in Hardin county, family visits to Jeffersonville and Spencer counties, and several moves including Jim Pile to Booker and Minor Parrish to Woodlawn. It notes church events, social gatherings, land purchases, Nursery leadership by W. O. Ellis, and Bryan’s implication as a Democratic presidential candidate in a Topeka interview.
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