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Newspaper
Yorkville Enquirer
Location
York, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1902
Page
4
In a witty dialogue from a humorous department, two college graduates discuss their studies. He praises linguistics and study life, while she dismisses subjects like languages, history, mathematics, literature, and sciences as dull or boring. Her reveal: she graduated in white organdie over satin.
A veteran recalls General Grant appointing Tom Ochiltree as U S marshal in Texas after the Civil War. Ochiltree’s racehorse fame spreads, then a White House rebuke prompts him to stay home. The piece shifts to a pastor in Philadelphia, a generous stranger, and a midwestern adop tion of Lincoln’s strength, followed by a Sunday school lesson on Paul and Silas in Macedonia, highlighting divine guidance and early European converts led by Lydia of Thyatira.
Mrs Nan ny Robinson of Edgmoor died last Saturday morning at the home of her son R D Robinson after a long illness with dysentery. She was a Lancaster native who moved to this county after marriage and was interred in Edgmoor cemetery.
A Cincinnati Commercial Tribune report recalls witnessing the Orrin Brothers circus tusk extraction in Mexico City. The decaying tusk was removed by drilling, cocaine injections, and a four-horse pull, leaving the elephant subdued and returned to quarters.
A New York Press remark notes a man declares the husband the lord and master at a poker party while another image claims Toledo sword blades forged by Saracens coil like a clock spring and snap back to straightness when released.
The piece recalls how Darwinian and Spencerian thought once drew many away from God but now science appears to support Christian belief. It notes Huxley Tyndall and Zahm are cited as shifting views toward faith and the God of Christians as science progresses.
The New York Press reports Sir Henry Thompson after two decades of study now believes in a God of infinite energy and knowledge who does not intervene in nature. He rejects revealed religion and calls the Deity the Unknown God, aligning with Paul on Mars Hill and denying direct interference in worldly affairs. Senator Clark of Montana is noted as the richest yet most diligent senator, questioning a $1,500,000 government land valuation during an Indian reservation debate.
A Washington dispatch notes a cash-rich bid to buy land, with a senator surprised at the amount. The Valley piece recalls a time value tale about a firm delaying a hire for a minute’s cost, plus a Wellington quip about an inebriate officer and a stern response.
Smooth manila paper usable for drawing plans for contractors and tracing patterns for dressmakers. It is 44 inches wide and available at the Enquirer office at 10 cents a pound.
G. P. Reid, agent in Chester South Carolina, lists extensions for several railroads including Carolina and North Western, Chester Southern, Yorkville South Carolina and Georgia extension, Gastonia Southern, Lincolnton South Alabama Line, Newton and Hickory Southern.
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