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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1893
Page
3
A Chicago Tribune piece recounts a humorous scene at an elevator ticket window. An entrepreneur touts a new device as perfectly safe while his wife considers riding it. The exchange centers on price, safety claims, and curiosity as observers wonder if Jennie will ride.
W. Smith, the largest New York City cheese dealer, runs a factory using ten million gallons of milk yearly. He has perfected a process to salvage the milk sugar and expects to produce 300000 pounds this year at about sixteen cents per pound. Waste parts go to poultry and duck food, with lactose vinegar offered as a table condiment and cholera prophylactic.
A vintage note extols Syrup of Figs as a pleasant laxative that gently cleanses the kidneys liver and bowels to promote health and comfort. It claims to be the best and only remedy with widespread use among millions. The passage ends with a poetic aside about gossip and listening.
A garbled ad page item touts Hollensworth & Co. of Owego and Tioga County with prices for mail orders. It promotes Hall’s Catarrh Cure, Brown’s Iron Bitters, Beecham’s Pills, and Tanac tablets, naming doctors and druggists and noting various cures and tonics. The text lacks coherent narrative and includes multiple product claims and testimonials.
A New York Sun report details bamboo import sources China Japan and India and describes varieties from two feet to sixty feet tall. It outlines manufacturing in Brooklyn with steam bending, explains many products from curtains and baskets to whetstones and flower pots, and notes mass production by machinery while contrasting with hand crafted foreign pieces.
A collection of maxims on pride, honesty, effort, doubt, love, growth, and truth. It urges humility, integrity, and the limits of vanity, noting that laziness breeds illness, truth never slips, and genuine change comes from within.
A tale recalls the 1866 Sun River stampede in Montana driven by rumors of rich diggings. Harsh spring blizzard, exposure, and tragedy followed as many men chased wealth after a letter from Last Chance hinted a paradise find. Old timers recall losses and missing fingers and toes from the harsh trek.
The line dividing genius and insanity is delicate and often undefinable. Physiological psychology has not established general principles for logical judgment on this matter, and scholars’ analyses remain incomprehensible to ordinary minds.
A public royal correspondence example shows Charlies James Fox informed he is no longer a member of George the Third's government. The notice states the king issues a new commission and Fox's name does not appear.
A piano crafted from comio wood of South America with ebony Satinwood mahogany tortoise shell and mother of pearl is valued at 10000 dollars. Another piano uses curly birch dyed light green with comio wood. The top shows musical instrument images and names of composers. A matching bench completes the set.
In Hermosillo and surrounding regions excitement grows over a vast new ore body found in Palma Hermosillo. The almost white flexible yet inconsistent mineral resists heat and has passed extensive fire tests. Samples will be sent to major scientific institutions for analysis and determination of usefulness.
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