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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1894
Page
5
A historical note extols hot tea as a healthful beverage derived from boiled water. It argues China's large population proves tea keeps people healthy despite crowded, filthy surroundings. The piece claims boiling water is the key sanitary practice over health boards.
The clam is not stationary as it can move forward by sinking and reemerging. A clam left on the beach can vanish by burrowing, yet it travels about thirty feet in a week with its single muscular leg. This forward movement makes the creature seem unprogressive yet capable of progress.
Niagara Falls are eroding as the falls retreat downstream at an average rate of about nine feet per year. The change reflects long term geological processes shaping the river’s course and surrounding landscape.
A medical note describes injuries from a revolving wheel and a fall from a ladder with bruises. A doctor cites St Jacobs Oil as curing blue spots and long lasting pains. The text also notes ancient bronze and iron keys used in Greece and Italy as early as the seventh century.
An advertisement asserts catarrh is a constitutional disease needing internal treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure from F J Cheney Co claims to affect blood and mucous surfaces, offers $100 to prove otherwise, and invites readers to request circulars and testimonials. Includes testimonials and distributor notes. Also mentions Piso’s Cure for Consumption and notes the Congressional Library houses 6 000 books.
Rev Dr Talmage recounts the 1857 Cawnpur massacre led by Nana Sahib, detailing the siege of an Indian Christian enclave, the torture and mass killings in the summer house, the well where bodies were dumped, and the aftermath. He describes eyewitness scenes, the walls and inscriptions, and warns of future mutinies, urging missionary work and Christian mobilization.
An eastern railroad executive’s son, once mocked as a chump for timidity and fragility, defies labels after a volatile office incident. After ink and mucilage battles with his boss, he stands as a capable leader, rising to high authority within three years and earning respect.
The Investment Review touts a Chicago association backing women homebuyers. Over eight years no loss to female stockholders and a secretary notes women relentlessly pursue home ownership. First loan at 31st and Wallace built a brick cottage with payments $759 funded by the group.
The New York Sun notes paper made from wood pulp powers 20 000 daily papers and grows 10 to 20 percent yearly. It describes paper as a base for cigar boxes medals car wheels paper coated armor telegraph poles pipes roofing pails basins and coffins plus paper boats and even cloth paper for banknotes.
McClure's Magazine notes that many top railroad leaders began in humble roles such as firemen, brakemen, section men, clerks, or telegraph messengers. It cites John M. Toucey Newell Clark Blockstand Man gill Town Smith Hughitt Jefferson and others, claiming the Illinois Central produced many great men.
The Rio Grande in New Mexico currently irrigates up to 75,000 acres. Over ten weeks it flows about 3,500 cfs, enough to irrigate 350,000 acres at low service. A second ten weeks at 800 cfs could serve at least 80,000 more, with year-round flow Embudo to El Paso about 209 cfs for 40,000 acres.
The famed Old Grapevine at Hampton Court survives another winter with about 1200 grape clusters ripe this season, sometimes reaching 2500 in peak years. The vine, now 126 years old, yields fruit that largely goes to Her Majesty and to London hospitals. The palace gardens glow in full beauty.
A flood of testimonials from Texas to Chicago touts a “Medical Discovery” for chronic rheumatism catarrh and skin ailments. Letters claim patients walk again after years of pain and cite rapid swelling reduction and healthier pregnancies, praising the remedy’s effectiveness.
An endorsement letter from Cnasx W. Ansys of New York cites Kennedy Medical Discovery as effective for kidney trouble after years of back pain. The ad, from Donald Kennedy of Roxbury Mass, sells at $1.50 per bottle with a month’s supply and requests postal card requests for a medical book. A short Adirondack tale follows about Milly and a waiter offering sympathy during a pie episode.
A brief exchange shows Nagges offering a fifty and Jaggs proposing a five month term instead. The Detroit Free Press snippet hints at casual street talk about credit and repayment terms without broader context.
A terse moral reflection notes the perpetual hunger of the devil for more than what is owed and frames greed as an unending force that outpaces human insistence. The aphorism gathers from traditional lore a warning about insatiable appetite and its consequences.
Mrs Frep Hunt of Glenville New York tells how Dr Pierce s Favorite Prescription and Compound Extract of Smart Weed helped her eight childbirths She says she used two bottles last September and December 13th delivered a twelve pound baby girl without sickness pain or after pains She stayed active through confinement in very cold weather and attributes her relief to the remedies and faith.
A sharp city trick ends with a buyer forced to accept two mismatched pairs after a Broadway shoe maker delivers one left and one right with different button counts. The amused purchaser, son of finance, negotiates a refund and takes both pairs rather than lose a potential customer.
A Cincinnati Times-Star summary asserts French happiness links to high home ownership with 9 million dwellings for 38.6 million people and only 3 percent renting. It contrasts French stability with American tenancy rates and lower dwelling ownership, noting higher population density in France and urban rental trends.
On Easter Monday auction day a town crier gathers youths and the top bidder earns the right to dance with the chosen girl for the year. Fees go into the public poor box.
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