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Newspaper
Yorkville Enquirer
Location
York, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1908
Page
4
In Washington Star and London Tit-Bits style humor, Charles Frohman discusses art for contentment over money and a Persian cobbler tale about exchanging shirts to gain happiness. A London postoffice clerk’s revenge tale ends with courteous irony.
James Ten Eyck, famed oarsman and coach, teaches E. H. Harriman's sons rowing form. He likens form to success in tennis, and shares a comic old tale about a squire settling a marriage in formal fashion with coin and a kiss, set in the old west.
The Youth's companion recounts a tale of a grammar school team called the Tornadoes that loses 26 to 0 to Oliver Wendell Holmes. Father questions the team name and learns the boys plan to rename, while the boy insists the team is not a real unit.
A red headed janitress confronts a bank cashier on upper Broadway after claiming to know the Smith family. The confrontation ends when the cashier deposits the funds and identifies the customer, who asserts her relation to the Smiths and challenges the teller.
Reading from the Lantern on September 29, the page notes cancellation of a county reunion in favor of a state reunion next year, local hospital and building updates, accidents, a dog incident, deaths, and county statistics. It reports on the Confederate Infirmary board, road gang work, and a county auditor’s taxable property figures for 1908.
The Chicago Post notes the tireless drive of a professor chasing microbes while two experiments disappoint. Telephone mouthpieces are examined for tubercle bacilli and guinea pigs inoculated with sediment from dirty currency show no illness. Yale researcher Warren Hilditch reports high bacteria on bills but limited danger to hosts, urging better hygiene and more frequent money redemption.
The piece notes the boll weevil costs the United States about 100 million dollars annually and covers a third of southern cotton lands. It praises ongoing research by agricultural authorities and cites Van Norden Magazine describing the insect as a mechanized, armor-plated pest with a tool equipped snout that bores into cotton buds and squares.
A Kansas City Star opinion argues farmers and other producers need greater influence in lawmaking. It contends tariff reform and fair pricing would follow from broader congressional representation, criticizing lawyers for shaping economics to serve narrow interests.
Dallas cotton raiser Anthony C. Buschell told a Washington Herald reporter that Texas will push a January bill to bar transmission of cotton figures to New York. He called New York quotes fraudulent and says Texas farmers have lost millions to doctored prices.
Ed Neal and his sister Jessie Neal witnessed a 5 foot coach whip snake killed by a pair of mockingbirds in Alma. The birds attacked from both sides until the snake’s head was nearly severed, and the reptile died after a half hour of combat with the birds and a half grown rabbit still in its stomach.
The Anderson Daily Mail comments that blame for the night rider activity in the south should not fall on farmers' unions. It states the union as a whole condemns lawless methods and doubts individual members participated, praising leaders as intelligent and honorable.
Rock Hill resident H W Fudge reports severe backache and kidney pains years ago. After using Deans Kidney Pills as directed, his pain diminished quickly and kidney trouble became minimal for two years. He reaffirmed his earlier endorsement of Deans Kidney Pills.
For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sole agents for the United States. Remember the name Doan's and take no other.
Return tickets go on sale in Chicago New Orleans Birmingham Milwaukee and Denver with sale dates and inclusive limits listed for each city. Rates and details are available from Southern Railway ticket agents or from John L Meek assistant General Passenger Agent Atlanta Ga or J C Lusk Division Passenger Agent Charleston S C.
A political appeal letter urges readers to fund the Bryan Kern People’s Rule campaign with honest money. It attacks trusts and favors while urging subscribers to send contributions via the Democratic National Committee and to have their names printed in The Enquirer.
The ad urges readers to start saving, claiming 10c a day yields 86.50 in a year and 25c daily yields 91.25. It promotes putting money in the bank as safe and readily accessible, emphasizing the habit as easy and beneficial.
Prompt service for hanging doors blinds mending floors installing stairs shelves roofing and more. We sell paints lead putty oils lime and cement wholesale and retail. If you are planning a building project visit us for supplies and guidance.
An advertising notice urges readers to save a portion of earnings weekly in a savings department. It promises four percent interest compounded quarterly and asserts systematic saving leads to independence.
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