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Newspaper
Yorkville Enquirer
Location
York, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1900
Page
4
The humorous note recalls a Memphis man who bought a flashy mare for 150 dollars without reveal of blindness. After selling for 165 with a buyer who discovers the mare’s fault, the second buyer confronts him. The colonel admits the seller hid the defect, and the creditor seeks reparation.
A collection of short humorous vignettes includes a surgeon’s absent minded carving joke, a child’s donkey adjectives, a bishop who says he is prayed up for cold nights, and aints about May Blimbers whose whistling leads Charley Linseed to kiss her. The pieces capture light social humor and rural anecdotes.
A humorous dispatch presents a perturbed woman recalling census memory and a quip about a repeating census taker. The second vignette features a talking duck and a wary hen exchanging a playful exchange with the duck quacking.
A classroom exchange from Tit Bits shows an English teacher prompting Johnny to name a British emblem beginning with L. He guesses lobster. The scene adds a quip about broad mindedness from a philosopher cartoon in the same issue.
A collage of short items notes diverse trivia from geology to postage, tobacco bans, and madcap plans. It mentions Lord Roberts as a skilled swordsman, race and population quotes, and a plan for a cable propelled submarine across the English Channel.
Readers share practical recipes for communion bread and grape wine, plus tips on coal oil uses, foot care, unslacked lime to deter rodents, buttermilk yeast, insomnia remedies, homemade ginger ale, rust removal, and other household hints from The Country Gentleman and S. B. Bowerman. Includes method for wine from grapes and canned storage.
In Chester a farmer reports oats yield of over 100 bushels per acre from three-eighths of an acre. A heroine Maggie Rosborough saves a child from a train before being killed by a locomotive flag staff. Obituaries note Mrs. W. S. Douglass and others. A list of jurors for July term and various local items follow, including a mysterious umbrella sighting, court notices, and community events across multiple towns.
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