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Newspaper
Springfield Sun
Location
Springfield, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1910
Page
8
Fertilizer advertisement promises earlier stronger tobacco beds from our product. Local notices recount tobacco sales at 13 to 14 cents per pound, and numerous residents visiting relatives, with social visits and daily life details interwoven among tobacco dealings. Catarrh cure promotion closes the item with medical ad copy and a sales pitch.
Miss Maggie Coyle spent several days with Mr Will Coyle and wife at Jen soton. Mr W B Carpenter and wife were guests of Mrs Ida Coyle Thursday. Mrs Lucinda Blacketer entertained guests Tuesday including Mrs Laura West Mr A Lawson and wife and Mr J L Harmon and wife and Mr J L Coyle and wife. Mrs J L Yankey on sick list this week. Miss Laura Graves of Mackville spending a week with aunt Mrs Nora Beat. Miss Maggie Coyle guest of Miss Mary Young of Boyle county Saturday night and Sunday. Cumberland Telephone Co have completed their line and it is ready for use. Mr J H Elliott of Danville visiting daughter Mrs Amy Carpenter.
The death of Nettie Hardin, age 9, occurred Saturday morning February 26 at about 8 o clock. She was the youngest child of Mrs. J. T. Hardin and left a bereaved mother, sister, brother, and many friends. Nettie was bright and helpful, and her loss is felt deeply as her father had died four months earlier.
Mr F M Carney and family and Mr and Mrs C Woford dined with L D Carney Sunday. Fanny Laydane visits aunt Mrs Mat Bayne. Mr and Mrs J E Steaven and Mr Ben Pile dined at F M Carney's. Some farmers planted potatoes in the pleasant weather. Ada Moor and daughter visited Preston Moore last week. Rev Hamilton preached at New Hope. George Moor visited cousin Earnest Pile. Death noted of Mrs Billy Pinkston. Mrs E A Smothers and children returned from a month in Grayson County.
Local column from Valley Hill reports farmers preparing for tobacco season as beds are sown and fields cleared. Names such as James Harmon, Estella Webner, and W. R. Moran appear among purchases, visits, and health notes, with spring fever setting in and a misquoted line about a contagious disease ending the update.
A historical ad-style piece extols Dr Miles Heart Cure as a remedy for weak hearts, listing symptoms like shortness of breath and palpitations. It cites testimonials from readers such as F. J. Nowy of Freeville and claims the product improves breathing and overall health. The ad notes the Miles Medicine Co. sells a bottle for a stated price.
In clear weather, farmers sow plant beds while women plan gardening. Families and neighbors, including Gray, Harmon, Goodrett, Yancey, and Williams, socialize across Bolton, Springfield, and Midway. Ollie Gray travels to Louisville for millinery, and Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is praised by Dr. Nealshire as a safe children's cough treatment. Sold by Leo Havdon Drug Co.
Advertisements list multiple sellers along Rt routes and in Lebanon Springfield offering Pure Plymouth Rockerys Rhode Island Red cockerels, milk cows, hickory split tobacco sticks, seed corn, cedar posts, timothy hay, orchard grass, and various shade trees. Prices include 75 cents for 15 Rhode Island Reds, 80 cents each for Toledo c?afe strain, 15 for 75c, and 1.00 for Minorca cockerels.
Stiff neck is caused by rheumatism or the muscles of the neck. It is confined to one side or to the back of the neck and one side. Though often painful, quick relief may come by applying Pitonal by Leo Haydon Drug Co.
An old time advertisement touts Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a stomach remedy for dyspepsia and biliousness. It invites readers to write for free medical advice to Dr W B Caldwell at 500 Caldwell Bldg Morristown, Tenn, and notes sale at The Red Cross Drug Store.
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