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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1894
Page
7
Reverend Talmage reflects on Greenwood Cemetery as a modern Machpelah linking Abraham and Sarah to a national memory. He argues resurrection will beautify cemeteries by restoring the dead in improved, incorruptible form, compares graves to a factory producing radiant bodies, and cites famous figures to honor enduring memory.
A preacher extols a future resurrection where the dead rise blessing the cemeteries with beauty and life. He invokes Christ as first fruits, cites Mary Magdalene and others who saw Jesus, and imagines a joyful procession from grave to heaven with renewed health and reunion.
A Boston drummer with his left arm amputated tells a clerk a Missouri anecdote about buggy riding with a pretty local girl. He recalls she chose the right seat and urged him to drive, implying he should learn despite his injury.
A married woman’s portrait of the perfect husband contrasts with what she actually received, as reported by the Atchison Globe. The brief remark reflects social expectations and personal disappointment in dated public life.
A newspaper critique portrays wholesale dry goods doorkeepers as petty tyrants who wield imagined power. It describes the ritualized duties, the shaming of pedestrians, and the blackmail-like exchanges with street vendors, porters, and newsboys, revealing a contemptible spirit among some.
A militia colonel and his daughter Molly debate public duties after she protests a parade. Molly expresses anger that her father lacked a drum, while the colonel asks if she saw his march up Broadway.
In early spring weather the piece notes the discomfort of stiff joints and back pain. Harry Williams of Greenville California testifies that St Jacobs Oil eased a woman’s two day back pains after one application, giving her a good night’s rest and a morning recovery. An aside mentions a Swiss engineers plan an underground railway up Jungfrau Mountain.
A newspaper notice touts Hall's Catarrh Cure claiming to heal deafness caused by inflammation of the Eustachian tube. It offers $100 for any deafness case cured by the remedy and asks readers to send for circulars. The ad notes railway rails nationwide weigh about 53 million tons.
Essential to the production of the most perfect and popular laxative remedy known have enabled the California Fig Syrup Co to achieve a great success in the reputation of its remedy Syrup of Figs as it is conceded to be the universal laxative. For sale by all druggists. Transatlantic telephoning would be possible if a single copper wire could be laid. If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr Isaac Thompson’s Eye-water. Druggists sell at Seper Loule Electric irons are used in laundries.
A casual ad promises wagons at low prices with a mammoth catalogue from a supplier in La Chrome. It touts a durable wagon and a 1200 movement claim for human joints in a humorous aside.
Mr BF Johnson of HF Johnson and Co Richmond Va explains the firm’s position in response to a newspaper advertisement. He emphasizes seeking men of first law character and ability to represent the people and notes that many nodist and best men in America deserve opportunity at the establishment.
A garbled street page features assorted modern remedy pitches and gimmicks. An unclear reference to Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root, Shilohs cough remedy, and other patent medicines appears amid stray promotional lines and technical notes.
A letter from C. I. Hood & Co. in Lowell Massachusetts recounts a 30 year struggle with poor health and fatigue. After trying doctors and medicines, the writer credits Hood’s Sarsaparilla with improving appetite energy and overall well being after using three bottles.
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