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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1893
Page
3
A late arriving Episcopal bishop found a town hall closed and hammered at the door. A neighbor called out asking how to knock, and the bishop replied he did not know the proper sound.
The article extols Syrup of Figs as a pleasant, safe remedy for women under all conditions and advises buyers to seek the genuine article by checking the California Fig Syrup Co. name on the package. It notes that distressed lovers recover quickly when hearts break.
An advertisement from Yellensworth & Co of Owego Tioga County offers a treatise on a fee issue titled We Care Rapture. It lists a mail price of 1.15 dollars and a standard price of 1 dollar.
An advertisement touts Brown's Iron Bitters as a cure for malaria and a blood builder, and Peecham's Pills as a tongue cleansing remedy. It features testimonials from Albert Burch of West Toledo Ohio and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure as life saving. Also markets Dr Isaac Thompson Eye-Water at 25 cents a bottle and other tonics for indigestion and weak muscles.
A fragment from St Nicholas hints at a theme of wind and nature with four brothers and a chorus. It then cites a New York Ledger Island piece about candy-hungry visitors harming Esquimau children at the Chicago World’s Fair. The New Orleans Picayune recounts a tiger trap performance in Allen-Allen Square with spears and a dangerous crowd.
A dancing bear named Brain belonging to an Italian performer stops a thief at a farmhouse barn. The bear hugs the man until the farmer commands the return of the thief, who is muzzled and spared after a reward of honeycomb.
An English traveler in Java witnessed a tiger fight unique to the region. He observed the tiger pit and the crowd reaction, noting the methods used and the exotic spectacle as part of local entertainment.
George Bustle shot a mother squirrel near its nest and found a newborn orphan. He placed the infant in with his cat, which adopted and cared for the youngster as its own. The cat and kittens and the squirrel are growing well together.
The article notes that economic insanity is twice as common in France now as fifteen years ago and that the number of people restrained for it has risen 25 percent in the last three years.
A fog filled valley reflected mountain peaks as if on a lake at Lick Observatory. A similar England sight near Leyburn in Wensleydale last September also showed clear reflections in a half filled fog.
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