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Newspaper
Yorkville Enquirer
Location
York, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1903
Page
4
An old man on a subway car engages a saloon keeper in a stream of paradoxes about daylight, sleep, gravity, and life. The exchange ends with the listener vowing to ponder these ideas, while the philosopher departs with a final lecture on ignorance and thought.
In a crowd of listeners the Harlem man and a Florida Everglades teller try to outdo each other with outrageous mosquito stories. The first claims a mosquito drilled a hole in his ceiling then bit a chicken, the second describes a grim scene of a mosquito bearing a half grown child and a grindstone. A third liar falters as the crowd grows uneasy.
Two young brothers listen to adults discuss skeletons. The elder boasts knowledge, the younger retorts with a simple definition: a skeleton is bones with the people off. Lippincott's for June.
State Constable J T Thomasson and Chief Jenkins captured a gallon jug of blind tiger whisky in the house of John Moran, colored, seized about twenty minutes before the officers arrived. Other notes cover D W Davis injuring his hand in a meat refrigerator incident and a raid on Jack Knox’s home yielding ten pints of corn liquor hidden in walls and an outhouse stash.
A veteran detective recalls bold capers from the 1880s to the late 20th century. He describes snagging a Honduras financier in Tegucigalpa via a high society fete, and using a U.S. warship to pin an East Side bank embezzler. He also narrates sending various crooks to Sing Sing and outsmarting cases in Callao and Ramleh, Egypt, with improvised traps.
The piece argues cheerful dispositions bolster both body and mind. It claims a merry heart aids recovery, enhances judgment, and improves business perception, while a sour mood hinders risk taking and fair appraisal of others. It emphasizes willpower and optimism as social and personal capital.
In a Chicago fraud case the Postmaster General issued a ban on the woman’s letters. She sought a private interview, appealing to Payne who read the plea with interest. He forwarded it to the Secretary of War, then received Root’s blunt risk assessment before final routine handling.
A tale of Mr and Mrs Googoobird who grow rich then learn clothes are not all. They boast of fine hats and bonnets, wait for praise, but a coming rainstorm ruins their outfits and teaches a lesson in common sense. Detroit Journal. IDLE Men In New York.
J. R. Schore promotes professional photography and in house developing retouching and finishing at his West Liberty gallery. He emphasizes years of study experience and reasonable prices offering development and printing for pocket cameras including Kodak and Vive. The Enquirer also offers job printing with correct prices.
General Manager T. Nichols lists daily trains from Lenoir to Chester with arrival and departure times at each stop including Cliffs Hickory Newton Lincolnton Gastonia Bowling Green Clover Filbert Yorkville Guthries McConnells Lowryville and final Chester arrival. notes E F Reid as G P Agent Chester South Carolina.
Effective April 18 1903 a Southern Railway timetable lists daily through trains between Blacksburg Kingsville and between Blacksburg and Marion with morning and afternoon departures and arrivals. Key stations include Kingsville Camden Kershaw Lancaster Catawba Rock Hill Tirzah Yorkville Sharon Hickory Smyrna and Shelby with officials W H Taylor and R W Hunt for Atlanta and Charleston respectively.
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