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Newspaper
Springfield Sun
Location
Springfield, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1906
Page
4
A farmer explains that persistent action reduces a harmful problem using a tale of hunting bears and ends with a jab at a Arkansan jailed for stealing from his wife, remarking he deserved punishment for marrying rich.
The Democratic nomination for Congress in the Fourth district will go to Ben Johnson of Bardstown on May 17 the last day to file. The Congressional Committee will meet in Louisville and act as a delegated convention under State Central Committee rules. Johnson is praised as a strong, honest, capable candidate favored by the paper and its editors.
The passage mocks Mr. Watterson for flipping between Republican and Democratic platforms amid Teddy Roosevelt’s populist shift. It notes the difficulty in understanding his praise and hints that even a longstanding conservative may feel compelled to reassess as time passes.
A critic argues honesty matters in public service. Deceit and ingrates are condemned as cankered vices. The piece warns that falsehood stains a man’s grave with the word DISHONOR and the Recording Angel records it forever.
The article argues the boy’s appetite drives the liquor trade and warns that curbing his early drinking prevents future bar closures. It likens a child's craving to leather hides feeding the leather industry and parallels a saloon’s fate to bankruptcy if youth are not steered away from alcohol.
County residents push a relentless fight against the saloon while town option supporters drift. Mothers and wives in the country influence the movement as rural families react to drunken behavior in towns and the fate of the railroad rate bill.
The passage predicts intense political activity next fall in the section with the line about politics being tame now and then booming in 1907. It describes a cascading wave of aspirants, likening the impact to a billygoat butt, and references a government dam and Salt River as symbols of rising fervor.
The Grundy Orphans Home trustees announce readiness to receive orphans under rules limiting age to four to eighteen, requiring legitimate parentage, dispossession of misrepresentation, and free delivery to the home. Preference given to Washington county orphans, then adjoining counties, then statewide. Trustees listed in Louisville and Springfield, Ky. In Chicago, Dowie and Voliva reach mutual representation agreement on management of financial affairs.
In Zion City the Dowie faction appoints John A. Lewis while Voliva selects Alexander Granger for a three member city committee. A third member remains to be chosen as court proceedings pause after attorneys announce a plan to place city control under a triad. Judge Wright proposes naming the third member, but Dowie adherents oppose, delaying the matter for further conference.
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