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Newspaper
Yorkville Enquirer
Location
York, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1908
Page
4
A streetcar conductor accuses a fare dodger, a man nearby offers a tip to spot her by hatpin fiddling. The passenger confesses after the conductor's cue and reveals the supposed pirate is his wife, ending with a discovery of identity.
A boy from New Hampshire visits his Worcester grandmother and confuses spearmint tea for milk. He drinks it before realizing the bowl is not milk, thinking it might be the local kind. The grandmother scolds him for the mix up and explains the difference.
A Montreal Star item describes French sailors from Gambetta and English seamen from Albermarle failing to understand each other until they used sign language. A British sailor mimed drinking with a sad gesture, lamenting the town's dry spell and lack of drink, while Frenchmen nodded in sympathy.
A Quebec shoe store receives a strange order listing a long family by name and age, asking to "put some shoe on my little families" and noting many members aged from 42 down to 1 and a barefoot child. The note asks "How much" in a line attributed to Chicago News.
Two Lanarkshire Scots visiting London seek soap at a hotel and trigger a misunderstanding with an attendant who misreads their request. A second anecdote describes a Sunday night scene where a man promises heroic acts until asked to marry, revealing the couple’s long courting.
A New York Waiters' club president notes that English diners prefer beef more done than Americans. He recalls an English duke seeking a very rare sirloin and asking for the butcher because the meat seemed not quite dead yet.
A wanderer, claiming twenty years of following water, asks a suburban house for help. The housewife, replying with disbelief, slams the door, noting the man does not appear to have caught his livelihood.
President Finley urges editors in the South to promote diversified farming and manufacturing. He cites fruit and vegetable markets, canning, dairying, leather goods, and cotton textile development as paths to broaden output and keep value chains regional. He notes the Southern Interests’ readiness to assist communities in building new industries and attracting favorable immigration, aiming at broader prosperity.
Beaufort County mobilizes to defend Senator Neils Christensen a pivotal state legislative figure described as a force in lawmaking and anti graft efforts. Critics warn of a plot to shift state government to allies of indicted individuals and liquor interests risking prosecution and halted cases.
The Manning Times notes the old state dispensary crew pushes for loyalists in counties and the house. It praises Senator Christensen for exposing state robbery and urges Beaufort voters to support him to uphold law and order and back a strong Beaufort majority.
In an old Chicago News piece, a grocer and an elderly resident debate record heat and shifting seasons. The elder recalls harsher winters, deeper snows, and more frequent rain, while noting modern summers feel cooler and winters warmer. They contrast past and present weather sensations with nostalgia.
Old potatoes require twenty five minutes new ones fifteen minutes old carrots an hour young thirty minutes old cabbage twenty five minutes young fifteen onions forty minutes potatoes boiled twenty five minutes steamed thirty five minutes parsnips forty minutes French bears thirty minutes cauliflower twenty five minutes turnips twenty minutes lamb fifteen minutes per pound pork thirty minutes per pound chicken four pounds one and a half hours fish five pounds one hour turkey ten pounds three hours veal twenty minutes per pound mutton thirteen minutes per pound sirloin beef rare seven minutes per pound well done eighteen minutes per pound beef fillet twenty minutes per pound or young twelve minutes peas eighteen to twenty minutes gorham rolls thirty five minutes wheat rolls twenty minutes
A magazine writer narrates trying to open a bank account with 350 dollars in Wall Street. The teller and cashier question his balance, revealing the bank’s limited facilities for small accounts. He leaves with 62 dollars, planning to use it as a nest egg, while reflecting on the failed attempt.
English physician William Harvey born at Folkestone on April 1 1578. He studied at Caius College Cambridge and Padua, then returned to England to practice at St Bartholomew's and become Lumleian lecturer. His celebrated discourse on the circulation of the blood followed in 1616 with notes now in the British Museum.
In an Austrian village two farmers dispute a boundary line gooseberry bush. Each may pick berries on his side but cannot destroy the bush. Costs are split, each paying 225 krone, with the yield valued at about one half krone yearly. The judge quipped it may take 800 years to recoup. In other news Pennsylvania leads U.S. stone production with about 14 percent.
Mrs. M. E. Owens of 8S Green St Rock Hill South Carolina reports months of backache and dull headaches eased after using Doan's Kidney Pills. She notes persistent improvement and recommends the remedy to other sufferers. Sold by all dealers price 50 cents Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sole agents for the United States Remember the name Doan's and take no other.
J C Wilborn lists numerous farms and parcels for sale across Yorkville area. Properties include 600 acres near Rock Hill with 12 horse farm and 210 bales of cotton, 91 acres three miles from Yorkville, 236 acres five miles from Rock Hill with rents, plus multiple houses, cottages, and tracts with detailed sizes, cultivation, and improvements. The ad promotes selling and buying land now for bargains and terms through J C Wilborn, Real Estate.
If you plan any structure from a chicken house to a factory, this firm offers complete service from drawing plans to completion. They handle repairs of roofs floors and walls and act as lime wholesalers and retailers as manufacturers agents.
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