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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1889
Page
3
A 14 carat necklace sold to a gentleman proves blamed by a discolored finger due to sulfur and chemistry. A doctor explains that impurities in the wearer’s skin can react with gold, while a sister’s brass ring prank ends with an amusing lesson about carat accuracy.
A Chicago Herald report from State Street near Twenty-ninth describes a vacant lot with a frozen ice sheet where amputee boy skates on improvised bindings. He gains laughter from surrounding ragged children as they tumble, yet he participates with evident merriment.
A fragment lists Mexican beliefs on murder fate and omens such as a body facing downward indicating capture. It prints assorted notices and cures, including a doctor’s eye-water, Kemp’s Balsam, and free samples offers. It also notes population figures and advertising rates for the paper.
A raccoon leaped onto Jesse Hess’s bedpost and was killed with a boot after his brother Almas lit a lamp. The animal likely entered via the chimney in search of kitchen codfish. In Britain the Duke of St Albans earns 4825 pounds yearly as Grand Falconer. An amateur ad offers a free epilepsy remedy with a sample bottle and treatise from New York.
An advertorial piece presents a young woman praising Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as purifying blood and improving health and beauty. It promises to cure blood diseases and related sores, with a money back guarantee and a copyright notice from 1888.
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