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Newspaper
Springfield Sun
Location
Springfield, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1910
Page
3
A historical account extols Mammoth Cave in Kentucky as a premier subterranean wonder. It tours routes, Rotunda, Audubon avenue, Main Cave, Star Chamber, Giant's Coffin, River Echo, and Colossal Cavern, noting guides, lighting upgrades, depths, and the cave’s enduring marvels for visitors.
Mrs Wise told her next door neighbor it was a sin to play the piano on Sunday. Mr Wise asked why she played on Sunday. The exchange shows friendly neighborly tension over Sabbath observance.
The Frankfort Supreme Court sustained the tax on rectified whisky set during Beckham era. Whisky interests expect increases to five cents a gallon next legislative session. The one-quarter cent tax yields about 50 000 dollars for the state treasury. The rectifiers fought the act since 1906 and agreed to pay while appealing. If ruling had favored them,the state would have owed refunds and faced treasury strain.
A Lincoln bust by the same Louisville sculptor as the Jefferson monument will be placed in the new Frankfort Capitol. Ren Washer and associates gifted the statue after offering it to the governor, who referred it to the Capitol Commission and received swift approval. The bust stands on an eight foot pedestal.
A nurse recounts her year and a half old son's soap and ointment treatment for severe facial and body sores. After one cake of Cuticura Soap and three boxes of Cuticura Ointment, two months later all sores healed and never returned.
The piece notes common home fixes for noisy windows doors and drawers such as wedges felt pads soap and oil to stop rattles creaks and hinges. It also profiles Mrs. Frederick H. Snyder as the sole woman impresario in the world bringing grand opera to St Paul and sustaining a male-like career in the field.
Yonkers Statesman notes Wright plans a new paper titled Sausage Links. Penman jokes in three sections and a dare involving a young woman inviting the first unmarried man to enter to marry him.
A public notice highlights Doan’s kidney remedy claims by Mrs. Catherine Sullivan of Joplin Missouri and cites Foster Milburn Co. An outdoor schools benefit references Dr Henry Farnum Stoll of Hartford urging institutes for delicate and tuberculous children in cities. He cites high infection rates among schoolchildren from tuberculous homes and frail healthy homes.
An office worker narrates a joke about two colleagues. One recently married man calls his wife four times daily to check on her headache and returns smiling. The other, married longer, avoids calls, insists he cannot spare the money, and returns scowling, leaving the narrator torn between marriage and bachelor life.
Bureau statistics records leeches imported under animals. 1908 value 5341 dollars, 1907 6922, 1906 4494, 1905 3862, 1904 3689, 1903 3240, 1902 2412, decade total about 40000 dollars. leeches imported free of duty. Snails formerly listed, but trade dwindled to 24 dollars in 1898 leading to discontinued records. Also a Harper’s feature gag about hoboes and rising costs.
A classroom exchange cites a teacher offering one apple and a student named Adam and Eire facing consequences. The dialogue hints at discipline and trouble arising from a simple math prompt.
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