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Newspaper
Yorkville Enquirer
Location
York, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1908
Page
4
Two colored women share a humorous exchange on a U streetcar. Mary Jane asks why one plans divorce, the other explains she lost her taste for Jim after he treats her like a servant, laying clothes in her lap and spoiling her. The punchline centers on a failed appetite rather than conflict.
A jovial stage driver aboard a Willowby to Greenfield route chats with a renowned author. He praises the writer’s magazine story while noting the author’s other sources of income and asking if writing is his sole occupation. The author humbly confirms he has other means.
A teacher struggles with subtraction rules and the class, after insisting on subtracting like terms, offers three pennies to the student who provides the wisest answer. A boy asks if three pennies can be subtracted from one purse and wins the reward.
A village postmistress faces suspicion of tampering with parcels. A rosy cheeked boy, in his best clothes, brings a large cake saying it is the bride’s compliments and asks her to eat as much as she can. The postmistress laughs and eats, while the bride’s act is revealed as a ruse.
A reminiscence from Youth's Companion recalls a witty exchange about Mrs Grandon's conversational skills. An admirer jokes about dining with her three times daily, but Mer Grandon notes his wife can discuss a thousand topics, then exits as she arrives.
Ezekiel lacks stockings so hides his trousers in the chimney of his tumble-down Florida cabin. A visitor arrives with gifts and Ezekiel grins from a narrow door opening. When asked about presents he quips that he got a black person and laments his pants are gone.
A fashionable teacher at the Teacher's Annuity Fair finds laughter from passersby after settling near a cake table. She moves to a corner when she realizes the placard reads Guess my weight and learn yours. The scene appears in Brooklyn Life.
Wilker of Magill section suffers a broken arm in a tree cutting accident. A wedding, a home fire, and a series of arrests mark a busy week with magistrates handling disorderly conduct and firearm offenses. Fire, registrars, weddings, and a sudden death close the roundup with a Crosby family obituary.
The Washington Star reviews how official reporters for the Senate and House chronicle debates in near real time using relays, phonographs, and typewriters. It notes the shift from longhand to phonographic transcription, the six reporters in the Senate and six in the House, and the high-speed skill required amid overlapping remarks and chaotic chambers.
A British Africa service officer warns of a looming Holy War led by the Senussia, a secret Muslim society founded in 1835. The group aims to unite Muslim lands under a universal leader and envisions a life-and-death struggle with white invaders, urging a global Jehad against nonbelievers.
An elderly man on the viewing stand with Governor Hughes and General Grant recalls Sigel’s Albany visit. He describes Sigel drawing maps with beer on a round table at Gordons Inn as he told a boy he might go to West Point and become a real soldier. He never saw Sigel again. He did become a soldier.
A Chicago Record-Herald piece traces umbrellas from Egypt, Assyria, Greece and Rome to modern use, noting royal symbolism in the east, ancient European habits, and a splashy giant umbrella made for an east African king. It cites 8,000,000 yearly production in the U.S. and New York Philadelphia centers, with Jamaica supplying thousands of pimento sticks for handles.
Five fronting Main Street with five behind them, each 25 by 165 feet. Prices and terms on application. Also about forty low priced Westerleigh lots and a 35 acre farm just outside the corporate limits suitable for a cottage or bungalow. A bargain.
W. J. Witherspoon Co invites buyers to view a line of buggies surreys and farm implements at reduced terms. The firm promises maker guarantees and its own, with plans to share profits to attract customers, urging buyers to compare prices and terms for best inducement.
J C Wilborn lists multiple farms and home tracts for sale near Bethany Clover Yorkville and Filbert. Properties include 2312 acres with one dwelling and 15 cultivation acres, 50 acre tracts with 7 room houses, 319 acre John B Plexico land, 993 acres near Yorkville Clover and Filbert, 195 acre Sparrow Place with two dwellings, 78 acre parcels near New Zion Ramah and Bethany, 834 acres Bullock's Creek at Hoodtown with two tenant houses, 233 acres near McConnellsville with 7 room dwelling and orchard, 151 acre Miller Place near Yorkville, plus an eight to one hundred acre varied land mix. Prices include 1200 per whole tract, 4000 for a larger bottom land block, and 175 for a house lot in Filbert. Wilborn invites buyers to list land.
A Yorkville citizen reports a home remedy for early kidney troubles that allegedly prevents progression to urinary issues diabetes and Brights disease. The item frames the remedy as a cure for a range of symptoms including sideache headache and pains in the back.
A local retailer urges customers to visit before purchasing any furniture or paints. Menu includes bed room and parlor suits, dining tables, chairs, rockers, wardrobes, lounges, rugs, mats, stoves, ranges, iron beds, and home paints. Promises quality, style, and best prices whether paying cash or on credit with a guaranteed square deal.
A Yorkville resident first applied for a $1,000 Mutual Benefit policy on July 1 1901 and received it around July 15. He then bought two $2,000 policies from other companies but now holds about $20,000 across eight firms and prefers Mutual Benefit for all future coverage.
A short set of lessons promotes painting in spring as the best season for interior and exterior work. It touts New Era and Peninsular Semi Paste paints with a money back guarantee, praises Alabastine for tinting, and claims Iroquois roof and boiler paints will last five to ten years with guaranteed performance.
I H Norris of Yorkville offers Single Comb Buff Orpington eggs for hatching at $1.00 per setting. The hens are noted as exceptional layers and the eggs are sold to hatchers seeking high quality stock.
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