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Newspaper
Springfield Sun
Location
Springfield, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1905
Page
6
A collage of light humor and quips from era tabloids including the Tit Bit, Cincinnati Enquirer and Houston Post. Jokes cover marriage misunderstandings, romantic misstatements, and everyday folly amid chatter of editors and readers.
A collage of speech bubbles and quips appears from Chicago Journal Courier Journal Cleveland Leader and other papers. The humor touches on forms bathing suits and social manners with quick wits and curt exchanges.
Telegraph from Dr Nocht reports halted Russian emigrant trans shipments in Hamburg due to cholera fears. Emigrants are healthy aside from a light case, water and sanitary setup deemed faultless, and an epidemic unlikely. Also notes a train wreck near Moone injuring eight and two shooting incidents in Meridian and Magnet.
In Louisville on September 1 thieves robbed the residence of Joshua B. Rowlett at 0 Fourth Avenue then set the house on fire. Mrs Rowlett woke to smoke and flame near her bed, the occupants fled to the roof and escaped via a skylight. The blaze caused about $5,000 in damage and no suspects are identified.
John H. Waters former head of a Sellersburg bank allegedly confessed in Louisville to forging notes held by the First National Bank totaling 6300 dollars. The disclosure occurred in the bank’s presence with Clint C. McCarty as president and Burdete C. Lutz present as assistant prosecuting attorney from Clary county Indiana. Waters claimed the notes had been renewed for four years and originally totaled 8000 dollars.
The state election commission elected R. G. Phillips of Hardin County as secretary to replace Ollie M. Poyntz. Ferguson and Cardin named in Hopkins and Hart counties, with Garrard County replacing Calvin Neview by H. H. Batson. Board to meet in September to name Democratic commissioners in Bath, Daviess, Magoffin, Marshall, Whitley and Union.
In Kentucky, Timmons shot and slightly wounded his father in law W B Scott with a 38 caliber pistol about three miles north of Ottawa where Timmons and his wife have been living separately. Also reports Dr James W Jackson’s remains arriving in London for burial near Fariston after dying in a Sherman Texas sanitarium. Two men, John Jones and William Wallace, were sentenced to five years each for assault and robbery on the Cincinnati Southern last July. Mrs Armond Chowning drank carbolic acid and committed suicide in Cynthiana. A stray note mentions pet dogs in sunbonnets with blue glass spectacles seen following their owners.
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