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Newspaper
Yorkville Enquirer
Location
York, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1906
Page
1
The text recounts General Putnam's Long Island defense, Washington’s cautious strategic choices, Burr’s daring leadership during retreats and battles, and Hamilton’s tense rivalry with Burr amid covert schemes and personal intrigues.
The piece notes doubters once mocked steam and transatlantic voyages and cites ocean cable laying at depths of 16 404 feet and 26 246 feet near the Lukin islands as proof of optimistic progress. It concludes greatness rests in ordinary effort and belief.
A Columbia legislative inquiry into South Carolina state liquor purchases outlines alleged overcharges and graft by whisky houses. The report by Lyon and Christensen describes visits to firms in New York Philadelphia Baltimore Cincinnati and Atlanta with claims of higher dispensary prices and improper influence, urging expert audits and next legislature action.
The Rev W H Sheppard a Southern Presbyterian missionary to Africa told of trials with Lapsley and natives at Luebo on the Kassai river. He recounted battles with fever cannibal risks and a hippo rescue, and described progress including churches schools printing presses and new homes for orphans and witches burned away.
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