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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1891
Page
6
A wartime poem urges steadfastness as a wounded brother endures. It exhorts bravery, endurance, and marching forward under divine guidance, recalling the Captain who trod the road, and the buglers sounding forward with no retreat. The speaker urges concealment of wounds and cheerful obedience.
Gypsy Alcott and her father moved to a rocky outpost on Lake Superior to guide ships. During a savage gale she rowed to warn a ship, then withstood a towering wave as the lighthouse collapsed. She rode a beam and rope to safety, earning a pension of 1000 dollars a year.
A 30-year-old rifle club member suffered a mid clavicle fracture at 600 yards after resting the rifle butt on his clavicle during prone firing. Sayre’s method treated the fracture and healing was satisfactory. Simson notes the injury arose from how the shooter framed the rifle at extended distances.
The New York Voice quotes Professor Konrad of Munich suggesting primitive warriors used scalp hair to intimidate foes. It compares hair to a wildcat’s fur and claims a standing mane could boost perceived size, noting Semites and Caucasians may have benefited from such appearance in early struggles.
The passage compiles quips and anecdotes from various periodicals. It includes a Texas Penitentiary superintendent’s remark about trades, a sugar-fraud gag, light verse humor, social vignettes, courtroom quips, and short jokes reflecting early 20th century sensibilities.
A chemist offers varied remedies for seasickness including emotional resolve for the traveler, grapes on board, a hot water bottle with a stiff neck, bromide lozenges, pepsin, soda powders, Petru bark extract, and nitrate of amyl. He claims these measures help some travelers while others fail, advising restraint in excitement and heartened by practical items aboard.
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