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Newspaper
Yorkville Enquirer
Location
York, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1908
Page
4
Humorous sketches describe Miss Elizabeth Amory Pelham visiting Boston in a storm and sharing Lavinia’s bed to save a trip. A later anecdote depicts an American traveler in Jaffa whose driver accelerates for speed, stating Americans like to go fast.
A bespectacled elderly man accuses a floor walker in a downtown department store of failing to discipline a cloak model he says refused to show him the way to the shoe department. The exchange ends with the walker guiding him to the shoes, the incident recounted by the Washington Star.
A negro preacher, signaling hard times, unveils a new election box for collecting church funds. A half dollar or quarter drops on a red cushion, a nickel rings a bell, and a suspenday button cues a pistol, prompting orderly giving as he removes his hat and begins a hymn.
An old lady visiting a prison wonders why inmates are content. A warder reveals the convict is married to five wives awaiting him outside, explaining his absent mindedness and marital status, per the Philadelphia Ledger.
A Seattle resident with wine blurred vision tries to navigate home and repeatedly collides with a tree guarded by iron bars, lamenting his misfortune as he circles the obstacle twice. The odd episode ends with a resigned complaint about being locked into everyone.
In the Chester Lantern column readers receive a health admonition about mosquitoes and malaria. The article explains how mosquitoes transmit malaria, emphasizes the danger to children, and urges extermination and avoidance while noting the need for further guidance on control methods.
The article traces how the term widow woman arose from historical word forms and linguistic leveling. It cites Bible usage, the Wycliffe version, Dickens, and scholarly notes by Thomas RK. Lounsbury in Harper's to show the durable yet evolving phrase.
A vivid tour of a circular glass works shows the furnace center with eight glowing holes and orange beams. Workers blow and shape bottles through a four foot pipe, balance molten mass, and pass finished pieces to annealing for thirty six hours of cooling.
The piece recalls how senators sometimes form close bonds across parties. It cites Philander C. Knox and W. Murray Crane as an example of unlikely companionship over meals, and recalls Edmunds of Vermont and Thurman of Ohio who drank together in the old Senate days at the judiciary committee room, with prearranged signals.
The writer describes a dangerous half ride in a howdah on two elephants. The first elephant rocks, may flip the rider, and scratches telegraph poles. The animals move through trees for food, sometimes pulling the howdah toward riverbanks as the interpreter and rider observe the world from a precarious perch.
The article describes Russia's three main thrones at St Petersburg's imperial palace and winter palace and Moscow's Kremlin. The Kremlin throne, a gift to Czar Alexis in 1660 from the Persian shah, is gold plated with jewels and ivory, crowned by double headed eagles and angels. The St. Petersburg throne rests under a marble canopy with ornate gold embroidery and curtains bearing Romanov arms.
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