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Newspaper
Springfield Sun
Location
Springfield, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1907
Page
3
A Newark boy of sixteen nearly dies from cocaine use as a crusade forms to curb illicit sale and use. The piece warns cocaine is a national menace, citing racial disparities and urging strict labeling, physician orders, and public aversion to prevent further decline.
Miss Minnie McCauley aged 19 died of typhoid fever at her parents home in Lebanon on September 30 1907. Funeral at St Xavier's church conducted by Rev A M Zoeller and interment in Catholic cemetery. Mrs Catherine Downs 94 of Raywick died September 27 1907 of heart failure. Rev Zoeller led funeral at St Francis Xavier's church. Union Gospel Meetings led by Evangelist M S Rees closed September 30 1907 with tent seating for 1000 and high attendance by Lebanon residents suggesting community benefits.
A. A. Chis holm of Treadwell New York writes that after serious indigestion nervousness and debility he feared death but was persuaded to try Electric Bitters. He claims the tonic fully restored his health and he is back to doing business as before, praising the product as the best tonic medicine on earth.
Fine spider threads, cultivated for astronomers, surpass silk in precision and heat resistance. Each thread measures one fifth to one seventh of a thousandth inch, composed of microscopic gold streams. Delicate derostopes place lines parallel with two thousandths of an inch spacing for solar measurements.
A fragment notes that Friday traditions include wives working away from home and households creating sunlit facilities for outside meals. It mentions ready cooked meals sold outside the home and praises their quality, suggesting a growing practice of dining away from home.
Continent catches the national advertizing surge as posters tout Belgium. Ostend and its casino figure as principal attractions, with extensive displays likened to England’s hoardings and famed star power.
A Buffalo News report describes Puracoa island in the Caribbean about sixty miles north of Venezuela. It notes no natural fresh water sources, wells bored under Dutch supervision all failing to reach solid foundations, and only brackish water from shallower holes. Riverside tales tell of residents collecting water from reservoirs during the rainy season and women beating clothes on rocky beaches at all hours.
A Strand Magazine piece argues that several great leaders died at pivotal moments changing history. Julius Caesar Henry of Navarre William the Silent Clive Mira Beau could have altered France and Europe, potentially avoiding revolutions and Napoleonic warfare.
The Stanberry Owl reflects on the telephone as a great leveler noting how even dignitaries, judges, governors, clerks, and workers are treated the same by that everyday greeting. It argues that the call becomes a democratic equalizer across society.
A humor column reviews a curious antique table and contrasts a wife’s nostalgia with a husband’s practical view. It then pivots to short quips about a mistaken visit in a parallelogram geometry tale and a doorkeeper’s eye test joke, reflecting lighthearted frontier humor from Harper’s and Baltimore American.
A brief exchange presents Fred describing a nighttime desire to kiss Freda while she quotes a poet about yesterday’s thought becoming today’s action. The fragment mirrors a romantic, reflective tone within the Pick Me Up feature.
Real estate ads list numerous tracts around Springfield from 6 to 9 miles out and beyond. Properties include 70 to 400 plus acres with tobacco land, timber, barns, dwellings, orchards, and water access. Prices range from 15 to 60 per acre. several larger parcels advertise whole farms with multiple outbuildings and dairy potential. Listings reference nearby towns Maud Bardstown Bloomfield and Nelson County, with railway access and school proximity noted.
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