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Newspaper
Springfield Sun
Location
Springfield, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1910
Page
2
A collage of epigrammatic thoughts touches on fashion trends from hobble skirts to khaki hats, schooling, and public life. It riffs on the absurdities of modern speech, music in schools, and shifting tastes while noting a few curiosities from aviation, crime, and social norms.
A brief item suggests a youthful magazine writer believes girls today lack kissing skill. The note adds that a Pennsylvania woman found a 20 cent pearl while consuming oysters in New York, implying reputational or social consequences for women and families amid oyster season chatter.
A sweeping move replaces one room district schools with consolidated rural schools. Big wagons haul hundreds of country children daily to a two story center offering graded schooling, vocational farm training, and practical agriculture. Indiana leads, followed by Massachusetts and Ohio, as districts adopt these model schools.
Elkton report indicates three of eight prison inmates who escaped by sawing bars and making a rope out of bed clothes returned voluntarily. Theodore Jefferies, a ten year term felon from Simpson County for criminal assault, remains at large along with Buck Blackwell, tied to housebreaking. Bloodhounds track Blackwell’s trail as a white prisoner charged with manslaughter refused to depart with the others.
Lexington reports the county may purchase the Joel T. Hart marble bust of Henry Clay, owned by Mrs. Rosa Vertner Johnson Rhett, for 500 dollars. County Judge J. Percy Scott said the price is reasonable and the work would receive a prominent place in the courthouse corridor if the treasury permits. The Italian marble bust stands about four and a half feet, once presented in 1855 and descended to the current owner. There is already a Clay bust in the rotunda, but officials deem this a valuable addition.
Jackson Charles Little faced a jury for the killing of Matt Crawford at his business two miles above Jackson. Defense was entered by T. T. Cope who pleaded for mercy. Senator E. E. Hogg urged death as a warning, and the jury returned a death verdict after ten minutes.
Augusta officials report a missed legal notice halting bond plans for a Brooksville courthouse. A July court order aimed to place the issue on the November ballot, but thirty days notice prior to election was not published, leading to the declaration of the election off. In Lexington, Sheriff Dan Scott sues for back taxes on the Idle Hour Stock Farm, tied to KM Bradley. Morristown records note a marriage in which William Davis, 6, wed Anna Davis, 39, the latter becoming stepmother to Davis’s child.
Mack Thomas aged 60 and Samuel Hammonds were attacked in London. Thomas was seriously stabbed in the back shoulder and left side with remote chances of recovery. Hammonds sustained non life threatening injuries from blows to the head and face with a revolver. Hammonds reportedly entered Thomas's place of business and Thomas attempted to eject him before the assault.
Long Louisville Timothy T. O'Leary of Indianapolis pleaded guilty and agreed to pay a $300 fine plus costs. The trial of P. J. Needham and Dr. C. G. Schott continued. Needham testified that The Commercial Life Insurance Co president offered $700 to Lee Sroka after the death of Wm. E. Ryder, tying the policy to the fraud probe.
Glasgow reports George Carver known as the King of the Blind Tigers was arrested and jailed. He operated a distillery at the corner of Warren, Barren and Allen counties and faced illegal whisky charges after months of elusive evasion and prior escape attempts. A monument to Gen Eliz K Zollicofer unveiling at Mill Springs followed Civil War memory with veterans present.
Doings of the Week reports on mules injuring 12 year old Maysville boy, the editor F M Thomasson’s death at 78, Allen County shooting of Allen Asher by Isley Graves, Judge Radcliffe’s death at 72, Todd’s official report and $461 Treasury check, new Kentucky postmasters, Central Kentucky Phosphate Co. plans, W C We Club raid in Louisville stock, Davidson death, Breck Combs and Frank Sewell in regard to Mare Crawford case, Judge Redwine moving cases in Breathitt to Bourbon, and the John Davidson murder transfer to Bourbon.
A mother in a squalid neighborhood rushed into a burning house to save her baby, emerging with blackened hands and face while the infant remained unharmed. The incident sparked newspaper headlines and mixed reactions among readers about maternal heroism. The piece also recounts a fable about a pan of biscuits and a cyclone, ending with a quip about rich men and honesty.
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