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Newspaper
Springfield Sun
Location
Springfield, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1905
Page
8
A public sale will be held at the seller's farm five miles north of Springfield near Pike and three-fourths mile from Pleasant Grove church and schoolhouse. The 121 acre farm is largely grass with a four-room dwelling and barn. Personal property and household items are listed for sale to the highest bidder. The sale date is the above date.
Classified entries list numerous sales of turkeys shoats mares and cows by Springfield Frederickstown Hill and other routes. Also notes Town Taxes for 1905 due before December 1 with penalties after that date and demand for receipts.
Nelson county farm with house and large tobacco barn four miles from town on the Pike. For price and terms, inquire Hoxe and Duncan Bloomfield Kentucky.
Owner offers 120 acre well improved tobacco farm for sale at 75 dollars per acre. May take a small improved good farm in Washington or other county as part payment. Listing by W T Ewing Real Estate Agency Harrodsburg Kentucky.
Farm for rent at Fredericktown Kentucky about 110 acres river and foreek bottom land with corn and tobacco acreage 30 acres timothy and rest routs and grass. Two tenant houses stock barns and new tobacco barn for 17 acres. Apply to J. B. Coxon Fredericktown Kentucky Subscribe for The Sun $1 per year.
Marion county guest visits and local family news. Miss Josie Coyle of Springfield with sister Mrs. G W Young and Mrs Josie Mays of Mackville visit family. Mrs Sallie Kimberlin leaves bed rest. A newborn Maggie Lee to Virgil Miltons wife. hens egg sales noted. Talks by H P Hatchett and E W Summers at Long Run School. livestock sale reported. Sun marks one year. readers urged to write weekly for more news.
A chronically injured hand swelled as blood poison threatened life until Bucklen's Arnica Salve drew out the poison and cured the wound. Promoted as best in the world for burns and sores at 25 cents, from C. J. Haydon's drug.
The Weekly Courier Journal offers twenty Christmas presents totaling $600 to subscribers. Four main prizes include $100, $50, $30, and $20, with sixteen additional gifts of $30 and $20 distributed across Kentucky, Indiana, Tennessee, Texas, Mississippi, Virginia, and Alabama. Write Courier Journal Company, Louisville, KY, for details. copies sent free.
Avalon notes a California boat firm, after a year of mixed success with three glass bottom power boats, has drawn plans for a Woque craft that spans 270 passengers. Martin outlines a 18 by 55 foot hall with two glass decks, aiming for commission by March. The vessel lands on beaches via gang plank, no wharf needed.
A 300 year old record of the De Soto expedition was found on the shore of Lake Itkaemys by farmer Chandler Gray of Lake Haska. The skin manuscript, dated August 1547 and signed by Ferdinand Vilhena and Sancho Coon, will be sent to the Smithsonian.
A column urges parents not to deny children penny pleasures such as candy. It argues a ten year old gains more happiness from a small penny today than later when money is saved, citing Thackeray’s ha penny tale. The piece cautions against depriving children of their birthright to immediate treats.
A Woman's Home Companion correspondent argues wifehood as a profession equal to her husband’s shop business. She stresses cooperation, budgeting, and mutual respect, noting shared financial honesty, wholesome cooking, restraint from nagging, and self discipline as keys to domestic felicity.
A health guide offers simple beauty and home remedies. It suggests rubbing cucumber peel for a creamy complexion, hot baths with salt solution for relaxation, a neuralgia cure using carbonate of iron and molasses, and starch reuse tips to economize kitchen starch.
Advice for women on trains includes carrying a large paper bag for hats and a pillowcase provided by porter. Tips cover wrinkle prevention by pinning dress to berth curtains, using a safety pin, and home remedies for cleaning nails with turpentine and myrrh. Olive oil helps remove residue in the morning.
A compilation of anecdotes from political figures including General Pitt Harding Lee and Governor Blanchard, weaving jokes about names like Smith and Pocahontas, clerical remarries, and quirky exchanges at rallies. The volume blends political lore with social humor from various governors and lawmakers.
Miss Eva Fiaugh er visits Miss Nora Neale while Mrs C W Rush recovers. Sutherlands and Bland Rush leave for Henderson and Louisville schools. Miss Sadie Funk ill briefly closes her school. Rev Eden preaches at Christian church. Laura Shehan hosts friends from Maud. Elbert Thomas visits from Louisville. Coal is hauled ahead of winter as carloads arrive. Irma Graham ill but improving after a trip to Sharpaville. Nora Neale visits Bards town. Sutherlands and Wil lett Rush in Louisville. Mrs Lillian Dodd returns to Winchester. Mt Zion church attendance. Father Obrecht, abbot of Gethsemane, returns from six months in South Africa.
A vintage advertorial touts Taureeomph First Aid and Threttahont Paracamph as cures for a range of aches and pains. It promises instant relief, claims skin penetration to reach interior nerves, and offers a money back guarantee if not satisfied.
The Illinois Central Railroad lists very cheap round trip rates to destinations in Mississippi and Louisiana including New Orleans with November and December 1905 dates. Tickets permit liberal stopovers and a 21 day return period. Also advertised are cheap excursions to Hot Springs Arkansas via Memphis and a note on exclusive excursion sleepers from Louisville to California Arizona New Mexico and Texas on select Tuesdays.
The Passenger Department of Illinois Central Railroad issues monthly circulars on Fruit Growing Vegetable Gardening Stock Raising Dairying for Kentucky West Tennessee Mississippi and Louisiana. Farmers and housekeepers may send name and address to receive free circular Nos 1 to 11. Var rates and tickets apply via the nearest railroad agent or address FW HARLOW DL PLA Louisville Ky.
A fragmented market list from Springfield shows items like bacon, apples, chicken, and flour with per pound or per unit prices and assorted staples. A separate brief notes a fierce ongoing coal mine fire at Amsterdam. Subscribers are urged to subscribe to The Sum for $1.00.
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