Humorous Department Tales From Friendly Native Sons
A collage of light newspaper humor items including a dispute over how to pronounce chauffeur and playful quips about Bruce Cornwall wife’s term for the driver, a dead mouse misadventure, a love triangle thunderstorm vignette, a bishop on a dinner bill, and small city recollections of reform and everyday anecdotes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bruce Cornwall
Stanford Parlor
Bruce
Cornwall
San Francisco Chronicle
Alabama
Wash Jones
Bill
Bridge Completed by Lancaster and Chesterfield Counties
News from Lancaster reports the Lynche's river bridge known as the Lowell bridge has been completed and received by county officials. It was built jointly by Lancaster and Chesterfield counties with contractor George F. Taylor for Lancaster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lancaster
J. C. Counts
Hickory Grove
W. M. Moore
Lynche’s River
Lowell
Chesterfield
George F. Taylor
Taxahaw
W. F. Hunter
J. C. Blackmon
John D. Adams
Sallie Adams
Messrs
Will
Fred Adams
Adams
Col
A. R. Banks
Lancaster Graded Schools
South Carolina
Col. Banks
Columbia
Ambition to Do Nothing Warns of Life Without Labor
A London Mail editorial laments idle ambition, arguing work builds character and society. It cites a discharged worker who admitted doing nothing and a clergyman’s warning that the only easy place is the grave, urging diligence and mastery of lessons to avoid useless living.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexander
Caesar
Napoleon
Grant
London Mail
Shadrach
Meshach
Abednego
Mountmorres
Congo
Ubanegi
Ubangi
Debates Over Mint Design Stirred Congress in Early Days
In Washington, discussions on mint establishment featured a humorous dispute over the silver dollar design. A southern congressman opposed the eagle, calling it monarchical, prompting Judge Thatcher to suggest a goose as a republican alternative. Thatcher declined a challenger, and cordiality returned as realism about humor prevailed. The piece also recounts Beecher’s Farmers Creed advocating small farms, deep plowing, and soil feeding for lasting agricultural progress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congressional Library
Washington
Congress
House
Thatcher
Lake Superior
Michigan
Badger Commonwealth
Marquette
Mich
Chicago Chronicle
Wisconsin
Cram
Topographical Engineers
War Department
Montreal River
Lax Vieux Desert
Lake of the Desert
Menominee
Brule
Lake Brule
Department
Montreal
Lake Desert
Pine Lake
Island Lake
Captain Cram
Hurley
United States Supreme Court
Razorless Shaving Exhibition Draws Scores of Barbers
A Cannon Street hotel room hosted a razorless shaving demonstration drawing many barbers. A skilled operator shaved a three day beard using a match box edge. Demonstrators learned to apply Razorless Shaving Powder to brittle beard then remove with a dull blade. Six participants sat for the display before the crowd.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Chicago
Cannon Street
Birds of Prey and Their Hunting Habits
A historical survey describes how owls eagles hawks and osprey use vision claws and hunting tactics to catch prey. It notes the sparrow hawk red tailed hawk and osprey diets and hunts across regions and seasons. It also covers a 1904 view of golden eagles and ground squirrels near western mountain nests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Audubon
San Francisco Bay
Meerschaum Industry Faces Supplier Crisis Abroad
American and English manufacturers control most meerschaum output from Asia Minor, driving prices up and threatening Ruhla and Austrian producers. Ruhla employs thousands in pipe and related goods, with vast annual production values at stake as raw material scarcity deepens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
England
Germany
Asia Minor
Eski-Schehir
Ruhla
Thuringian Forest
A. J. Ledoux
Prague
Austria
Philadelphia Ledger
Legal Blanks and Forms Available at The Enquirer Office
The Enquirer Office offers approved blank forms on good paper stock. Available items include Chattel Mortgage Lien and Mortgage on Crop Promisory Note Mortgage of Real Estate Title to Real Estate Subpoena Writs Subpoena Tickets. Prices on application for any quantity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Enquirer
Clothes cleaning offered at reasonable prices
Mrs R B McClain offers thorough cleaning of four gentlemen's garments and ladies' skirts. Services can be sent to her home or dropped at W E Ferguson's store for convenience.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. E. Ferguson
Notice of summons in York County court action
The summons and complaint in a York County South Carolina common pleas action against J E Traywick Robert A Miller Margaret Traywick and Pansy T McConnell were filed May 21 1907 in Yorkville D C Clerk J A Tate notified absent defendants and plaintiff's attorney J A Brice titled See The Enquirer for all kinds of Commercial Printing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Catherine V. Miller
Henrietta Campbell Traywick
M. J. Campbell
Robert A. Miller
J. E. Traywick
Margaret Traywick
Pansy T. McConnell
Court of Common Pleas
Yorkville
South Carolina
Brice
Dee
S. C
A. D
J. A. Tate
Clerk of Court of Common Pleas
York County
York Court House
D. C
J. A. Brice
Also Mentioned on This Page
Ida E. Edgerton
Scranton
Gammel
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Miss Jones
Mr. Brown
Mr. Robinson
Robinson
Brown
Fifth Avenue
New York
Pennsylvania
Robbie
Bobbie
Papa
April Lippincott
Chester
Camden
A. N. Sample
Tc. M. Whisonant
Sompayrac
Court House
P. Fulton
Japan
Lowryville
Virginia
Gilles
Montgomery
Fulton
J. W. Reed
Jamestown
Col. Reed
West Point
Julia Patrick
White Oak
G. B. White
Rock Hill
Martha Love
J. M. McGarity
Richburg
J. C. Dunlap
C. L. Dunlap
Fort Lawn
Bartow
Fla
Florida
Dr. Wylie
Gastonia
Citizens' National Bank
Gastonia Library Association
J. C. Galloway
R. C. Andersen
John F. Love
Jattie Blake
Tom Shuford
Hob Rhyne
Faomseur's Mill
Dallas
Kiser
Rhyne
Viscount Mountmorres
Foreign Office
Congo Free State
Wiesler
Beecher
Indiana
Surveyor
D. E. Finley
Marion B. Jennings
M. W. White
Yorkville, 8. C
John R. Hart
A. Y. Cartwright
Ss. Hart
Yorkville, &. C
Finley & Jennings
Yorkville, S. C
Wilson Building
THE
Enquirer Office
L. M. Grist’s Sons
A. B. Gaines
Mra, R. B. McClain
State OF
County of York
the Enquirer
Cain
BY Etta W. Pierce
Imi
Stationery
Vavay
Photography
West Liberty
J. R. Schorb
Yorkville Enquirer
Publishers
W. D. Grist
C. E. Grist
A. M. Grist
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