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Newspaper
Yorkville Enquirer
Location
York, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1905
Page
4
Henry Clews recounts a tale of a New York woman who tricks her husband into buying a $6000 pearl collar by disguising it as a $3000 purchase. The jeweler plays along, and the husband, trusting a profitable day, agrees to view it. In the evening the necklace is sent to the mother instead, on her birthday.
The Baltimore American presents a whimsical scene with an imaginary man writhing beside a hot imagined gun. A fictitious doctor checks a nonexistent pulse and muses on a hypothetic shot and a nameless grave in a theoretical harbor setting.
Wall Street night at the Waldorf Astoria sees John W Gates and brokers debating the Frick committee report and the Equitable muddle. Gates jokes about wheat losses and wagering, then declines a 50 cent bet, a rare moment of restraint for the famed financier.
The anecdote recalls General Grant discussing a northern regiment’s surgeon who treated a wounded promising officer. The surgeon tells Grant the officer has wounds in three places, two fatal and one non fatal, and suggests rest may allow recovery.
The Rev. Dr. D. J. McMahon, in charge of the old church at Second avenue and Twenty-first street, is the target of many jokes. He retorted with a wooden wedding quip about a Poles couple, turning humor back on a waiting friend.
A twenty month old child of Mr and Mrs Jim Phillips of Star Farm died after a short illness and was buried at El Bethel church. The Cherokee county term court opened with Judge Townsend presiding and several cases heard including assaults and battery with intent to kill and arson trials. In Chester Agnes Sexton Reid died aged sixty eight at Bascomville.
A Pearson’s Weekly excerpt explains how watches work and travel distances inside their mechanisms. It details balance wheel motion, tick rates, oil requirements, and hairspring regulation to keep accurate time through day and night across seasons.
The narrative details elephants dragging logs to a mill and transporting planks, guided by mahouts with iron spikes for balance and load. Elephants alternate heavy labor and rest, pausing at 11 for dinner and resuming at 3, illustrating a calm, methodical work rhythm.
The New York Sun reports on a long practiced scheme where grafters use showy but broken down horses to trap naive buyers. Victims include a Columbia professor and others, with police noting few complaints despite known crooks and a hidden headquarters in the horse market district.
The Illinois senator Richard J. Oglesby disliked evening visitors in Washington. A young man from southern Illinois who sought an introduction offended him when he bluntly asked what he wanted. The state senator who arranged the visit later helped defeat Oglesby in the next legislative selection, leaving him out in January.
Adickes' Emporium promotes seasonable goods at competitive prices. Offers include 14-Finger Grain Cradles, horse cattle and poultry powders, seed beans at reduced prices, ply traps and sticky paper, Junkets ice cream extracts, lemons ginger ale butter, Irish potatoes tomatoes watermelons cantaloupes peaches NABISCO wafers wafers and wafettes crackers.
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