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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1890
Page
3
A detailed account contrasts tornadoes and cyclones, noting speed, duration, and damage. It explains their origins, paths, and scales, recounting Louisville’s disaster as a rare, extensive storm system with a child’s miraculous survival amid devastation.
In a House cloakroom exchange Randall defends not voting on Sunday citing respect for the Sabbath while Butler argues for adjournment. The encounter recalls past clashes between Randall and Butler over civil rights and church conversion chatter. Butler quips about a future in heaven and the lower house.
A rustic settlement day scene in a Louisiana hamlet shows sixty to seventy patrons settling accounts. Henry owes for meat flour sugar tea shoes hat and cotton and a miscalculation leads to a correction revealing forty pounds of meat instead of twenty pounds of sugar. Protagonist William defends the honesty of the cash register as the group debates the books.
A Windsor Castle dinner featured a 100 year old turtle whose flesh remained sweet and tender. It was captured by a British cruiser near Ascension Island and, so the Queen enjoyed the dish, ordered a fresh supply. The piece argues age improves turtle while noting fowls and meats do not gain from longer aging.
The piece recalls the 1844 Peacemaker gun burst on the USS Princeton in the Potomac killing Secretary of State Upshur Commander Kennon and others. Commodore Kennon and Virgil Maxey were among those noted as injured or involved. The incident echoed a national calamity that affected Secretary Tracy’s family.
A farmer asks an agricultural paper editor about the effect of a windowless stable on a horse's eyes after a riddle notes that a side window causes weakness, a front window glare, a rear window squinting, and a diagonal window shyness. The farmer wonders what a windowless build would do.
A historical advertisement offers one hundred dollars reward for any catarrh case not cured by EL.11's Ca'arrh Cure. F. J. Cheney & Co. of Toledo, with several wholesale druggists endorsing the product and a testimonial from E. H. Van Hoeven, cashier of Toledo National Bank. Hall's Catarrh Cure is claimed to be taken internally and to affect the blood and mucous surfaces.
A New York beautifier argues veils trap dust in dotted netting and pores cause black heads. Chicago socialite Mrs Reginald De Koven is described as pretty and literary. The ad copy promotes Syrup of Figs laxative and Dbobbins's Electrical Soap wrappers offer.
A sharp editorial note compares mental folly to bodily clumsiness, arguing both share a dangerous, pervasive ability to cause harm in daily life and decision making. The passage underscores the destructive pattern of ignorance affecting judgment and conduct.
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