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Newspaper
Yorkville Enquirer
Location
York, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1901
Page
4
A western county farmer witness, partly deaf, resists a question in court saying the judge will not force an answer. In a Yorkshire asylum, an inmate jokes by sawing wood with the saw held upside down and declares this method easiest after being told to turn it over.
A collage of short notes and sayings from a long article includes observations on family sleep habits after bowls, curious facts about Australia caterpillars, global politics, health notes, and odd anecdotes ranging from debt and law to bizarre marriage schemes in America.
Miss Sadie Robinson and others return from All Healing Springs. A meeting for Catawba township cotton growers is set for Mount Holly on Saturday at 3 PM to send delegates to a Yorkville convention and discuss organizing to protect cotton from market manipulation.
A physician recalls a late night call about a feverish child. The maid says the mother wants to wash the boy’s face, but the doctor suggests she ask the nurse. The physician notes how discretion guides medical care and communications.
A farmer complains a horse won in a dealer ad is difficult to ride, the dealer retorts about the ad. A witty actor defuses an insult by noting his father was a lawyer. A couple riffs on opinions and gambling backs to a humorous domestic scene. A ship crossing joke ends the clippings.
A citizen asks if a newspaper man would say nice things in his obituary. The man replies yes with pleasure. The exchange then shifts to a domestic scene as Mrs Murphy urges Pat to fetch the doctor after a child swallows a halfpenny. Bridget and Pat reassure him, noting the coin was already bad.
Forty years ago in December ten men on bay horses attacked the Overland Stage corral near Manhattan. A young gunman on guard warned them, then the group battered the dugout and Jim McKandlas stormed in with a revolver and bowie knife, dying as the confrontation escalated.
A medical specialist argues that alcohol kills some men sooner than others. He cites a centenarian drinker and steady drinkers who die within five to ten years, while others reach old age. The expert blames alcohol’s damaging effect on excretory organs, especially the skin, and urges two weeks of total abstinence to let the body rest and renew its defenses.
The article argues that a man can live so long as vital organs fight alcohol’s damage. When organs fail to sustain normal function, the death certificate may read heart failure as the cause, implying little difference in outcome.
A former Illinois newspaper man recalls Cull the railroad cafe owner who is undone by a chain of telegram and collect-cash bean jests. A Chicago broker’s margin call and a stock slump push Cull into madness, ending in an asylum stay.
Moy Kee distributes eggs to friends claiming the age gave them a unique flavor. Mrs. Moy Kee halted the indiscriminate liberal ity as the controversy simmered in Indianapolis.
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