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Newspaper
Springfield Sun
Location
Springfield, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1908
Page
2
Mrs. Amos Van Horn confronted a burglar in her Keokuk street residence on returning from a movie. She grabbed her husband’s revolver and fired as the intruder fled headfirst through a window after a struggle over loot worth 65 dollars. Neighbors and patrolman Krekler assisted after the escape. Police noted uncertainty on the burglar’s description.
Moses Harshbarger of Matawanaa traps a large wildcat in the Pinck Log mountains and carries it alive nine miles to Miflin county for a scalp bounty. He used a sapling trap and phosphate sack gag to transport the animal, which died overnight. he will apply for the bounty on the hide and pelt.
At Princeton during Arnold's lecturing tour President McCosh forced him to sit in the chapel and announced him to the audience in a loud whisper. The professor, nervous at the pulpit, heard McCosh declare Mr Arnold to be a lively hymn and pray short. Arnold sat expressionless as undergrads laughed.
Everett Keeling cashier swears the June 30 1908 condition report for Central Bank Willisburg Kentucky is true and in compliance with state notice. Directors J Miller A H Noel J M Trent signatories. Notary W W Hyatt endorses.
The piece discusses Glacier National Park as a continental watershed linking rivers to oceans and notes a Globe World article on the park. It also surveys claims about a hollow earth and traces the word contraption in dictionaries, with etymology and usage notes from Bartlett and Farmer.
A woman with a psychic bent notes a handkerchief case and suddenly finds two sovereigns in her purse. She wonders if the incident was fated, while a friend calls it plain swiping. The scene sits amid a chatty exchange on baseball critic Higgins and the fate of Fan ning as Muggins jokes about a sprained larynx.
A quarrel erupts as a chronic borrower vents anger after learning the speaker will stop financing his loans due to marriage. The exchange centers on Stryker and a dispute over funds given for wedding expenses.
Thackeray extols novels as sweets and notes that nearly all people with refined tastes read them. He cites a wide range of readers from judges and bishops to boys, girls, and mothers, praising universal appetite for fiction.
The article lists fixed fair dates for Kentucky in 1908. Stanford runs July 22 for 3 days, Georgetown July 23 for 5 days, and Winchester August 4 for 4 days, with officials asked to report corrections or omissions.
A list of towns with scheduled fair dates spanning August to September. Locations include Danville Lekington Uniontown Barkesville Broadhead Springfield Shepherdsville Lawrenceburg Carroll Gallatin Owen Tri County Fair Sanders Vanceburg Ewing London Elizabethtown Burlington Germantown Morgantown Somerset Hardinsburg Fern Creek Monticello Hodgenville Glasgow with durations of four or fewer days in each location.
A testimonial from W Allison of Mooresville North Carolina describes using Dr Miles Nervine to treat a son's epilepsy with success starting June 1906. The author urges others to try the remedy and notes local druggists stock the product from Miles Medical Co Elkhart Indiana.
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