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Newspaper
Springfield Sun
Location
Springfield, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1905
Page
5
A local seller advertises a full line of the latest styles and invites customers to call in at their earliest convenience to see the collection. The notice emphasizes a broad range of fashions and personal viewing appointment.
Marion Falcon notes a session likely to settle long-standing complaints about property repairs near East Main Street. Macadamizing Covington and Virginia avenues aims for December completion. Local sales include Mayer Tunabout to Ben Simms and butcher business interest sale by Luther Burns. Baseball results favored Bloomfield over Springfield, 8 to 4, with errors altering the outcome.
Round up of local personal news with frequent travel and illness notes. Updates include Mr McClain ill with typhoid fever, Miss Craycroft improving in Meade county, Rev P P Hennessy visiting his father in Baltimore, and many residents from Lebanon, Bardstown, Willisburg, and Campbellsville attached to family visits, travels to Louisville and Cincinnati, nursing study plans, and church meetings.
A New York American extract offers practical dressmaking tips for home sewers. It covers sleeve reinforcement, prewashing braids, proper skirt shortening, pressing curved seams with a rolling pin, steel boning handling, machine stitching methods, collar sizing, and doubling sleeves to avoid mismatched cuts.
Week ending September 13 reveals uncalled letters including Miss Leln Meurer Charley Marks berry Albert Meek Annie Montgomery W T Noe Clarence Silliman Maggie Shamberry Harriet Walker Annie Spalding Margaret Sweitzer Walston Minerva Van Meter Lottie Ward. Postmaster W A Waters requests attention of addressees.
A reader from Alabama recounts severe pneumonia under two doctors, finding relief after starting Mr King’s New Discovery. The ad claims one bottle cured him and advertises a sore throat remedy at 30 cents a bottle with a free trial bottle. A separate incident notes a Corydon boy losing an arm to machinery.
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