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Newspaper
Yorkville Enquirer
Location
York, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1906
Page
4
A Baltimore businessman gives his wife a ruled memo book to track household and personal expenses. She promises accuracy, but the month ends with a perfect balance: receipts of 100 dollars received from Richard and expenditures simply noted as spent it all.
The page relays a New York Times style subway chat about weather, prices, and travel to Europe. It then shifts to Lanark farm life where a wife’s airs provoke hired help and a bargaining end. A Macon anecdote questions hell and a Yorkshire vicar tale ends with a bun joke about Dr Hook.
A family bridge game turns humorous as the young man’s playful kick targets Nellie. The father winces in mock pain asking who kicked his corn. The man confesses a mistaken heart beat while aiming for spades. The scene ends with a lighthearted reel on card play and romance.
A Chester lantern clipping reports July calls and small town deaths. Billy Mobley Jr. is found dead from a gunshot at his home, burial at Woodward church tomorrow. Mrs. Mary Davis Hardin dies aged 75 after measles and typhoid, burial at Armenia after services by Rev. J. M. Fridy. Gist and Fra zer Gist face jail and injury after stealing from a freight car. Frazer is badly hurt escaping. Miss Cleo Partlow visits Yorkville. Miss Anna Lewis visits Rock Hill. Marie and Susie McCrorey visit Fort Lawn and Rock Hill. In Gastonia, W M Swift undergoes appendicitis surgery. Winger joins J F Love. wedding invitations issued for Elise Meynardle Stokes and Robert Sifford in Yorkville. Pink Roper dies north of Belmont aged about eighty. James Neagle dies at eighty, with services at Goshen and Ebenezer churches.
The article depicts Akabah as a barren Red Sea outpost under Turkish kaimakam control where pilgrims and tourists face extortion by officials and Bedouins. It describes the fortress town, the harsh desert approach via Tabah, and the costly, tedious process of securing permits and protection to continue to Petra.
Miss Florence Nightingale, honored as the Crimea heroine, lives in quiet retirement at a London home near Park Lane. The pageant of aging shows a keen mind, caustic wit, and enduring devotion to nursing, which she helped define as much as a vocation and profession.
A paragraph from Modern Society notes Moors regard washing with running water as dirty. They see touching water as dirtying it. thus hands are rinsed by pouring water over them from a vessel, not by dipping into the water. Baths use water poured from brass bowls, flowing away through floor drains.
The article recalls a Havana 1900 mosquito study testing yellow fever transmission by exposing volunteers to dirty bedding and infected mosquitoes, with high illness rates. It also describes Maharajah tiger drives near Jung, detailing an immense elephant cordon and the killing of a large tiger after a staged hunt and a sword duel between Pierrot d Isaak and Sainte Marie.
Pierrot dIsaac, a Bonapartist, confronts Marquis Merle de Sainte Marie, a royalist, joking that they are sparrow and blackbird. They agree to a pistol duel, to be fought in the trees, absurdly matching their names to birds.
Frank Drew recalls Freaks from dime museums including Millie Christine the two headed nightingale and Lucy Zarote the Mexican midget. He notes costs, travel, and the public fascination with bearded ladies like Annie Jones and Myrtle Corbin, plus other acts and their fates.
An advertorial declares a guaranteed cancer cure by D B Gladden of Grover North Carolina. It claims ten thousand cases treated and warns delay is fatal, offering to send details by mail from the Enquirer office.
A 136 page recipe collection titled All Through the Year is offered in Yorkville at 60 cents with 8 cents extra for mail orders. Listed sellers include Strauss-Smith Co Miss Glenn Miss Wallace Yorkville Banking & Mercantile Co Miss Cody York Drug Store I W Johnson Loan and Savings Bank and agents Mrs G H O Leary and Mrs S M McNeel in Yorkville S C.
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