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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1894
Page
3
A domestic guide promotes Royal Baking Powder to mix buckwheat batter with yeast-free methods. It praises fresh daily batter for light cakes and outlines a specific receipt: two cups buckwheat flour one cup wheat flour two tablespoons Royal Baking Powder half teaspoon salt milk to thin batter and bake immediately on a hot griddle.
A historical note warns the alligator faces speedy extermination as it grows slowly yet long lived. An alleged twelve-foot specimen would be about years old. Florida estimates over 2,500,000 alligators have been killed in the past twelve years.
A reflective line notes the devil creates hypocrites and admits that no one pays as well as being good, highlighting irony in moral performance versus rewards.
Frank Close reports an astonishing two acre spring wheat yield in Minnesota with 72 to 100 bushels per acre and prices wheat at 30 cents a bushel. Salzer Seed Co offers a free mammoth catalogue and a sample of the spring wheat with mail request.
Corpa the novelist recalls English clothing as the most frightful grotesque male costume. San Francisco leads in rapid transit via cable cars across avenues and hills. The Mary L. Cushing ships from Newburyport shift to China trade. A nurse advocates meat substitutes for Americans. A Minnesota jury rejects a $25 marriage contract. Birching reform is debated in Britain. The London Lancet warns of football injuries. The schooner Frank M. Holmes is involved in salvage and a $15,000 cargo libel. France reports rising personal crisis cases by 1890. Japan plans a Kyoto exposition in 1895 to showcase industry and Buddha faith. Mrs. Miller champions prison reform and rights for the innocent. San Francisco’s 5,000-ton ships mark an era end in wooden shipbuilding. Russia plans a house tax replacing income tax, affecting 220 towns.
The Yankee Blade notes insects boast extraordinary power for their size. The Hercules beetle lifts over 500 times its weight, a man would lift 120 tons. fleas leap over 200 times their height and drag over 180 times their weight. the froghopper covers 250 times its length. Oyster shells require 1,400 times their weight to open, limpets grip walls tightly, mites move 500 steps per second, equating to 1,022 miles per hour for a horse, making a London to Birmingham journey six minutes and eight seconds.
John T. Miller of Portsmouth Ohio fenced his land and turned forty hogs loose to clear a snake infested farm and quarry. When he checked the hogs last fall he found them fat and healthy and the snakes gone, believing the hogs ate every last one.
A 83 year old survivor recounts a 8 year old daylight assault by a Black assailant and the long recovery at Louise Home. She credits Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People with a full cure of rheumatism dizziness heart palpitations and rheumatic pains.
A terse observation notes that every dollar earned by a worldling is framed as an unresolved wish for happiness. The idea casts money as a proxy for fulfillment, suggesting ongoing longing rather than true contentment.
A remark suggests more people would seek baptism of the Holy Ghost if they were not afraid it would burn up their money, implying concerns about material loss or divine judgment affecting finances.
An advertisement extolls Syrup of Figs as a pleasant, effective laxative that cleanses the system without weakening organs. It claims wide medical approval, targets kidneys liver and bowels, and notes 50c and $1 bottles sold by druggists. The California Fig Syrup Co. manufactures it and stamps its name on every package.
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