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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1892
Page
2
The jeweler shows a showroom lined with walnut cabinets guarding safes containing diamonds and costly articles. Burglar-proof safes, electric alarms, pasteboard panels and a watchman secure the stock, with police alerted within minutes if any tampering occurs.
A mineralogist explains agates originate in Brazil and are shipped to Hamburg then Oberstein where they are auctioned and sorted. Workers grind and polish at Idar river mills using grindstones and wooden supports. Agates are colored with oil and acids to enhance layered contrasts and other methods remain trade secrets. The piece adds note of Booth’s supper plan for London thieves and Trinidad West Indies’ exhibit funds in Chicago.
A poem suggests child readers will encounter elfin jugglers in shady forest nooks with gray-green faces and clothing. They move delicately in various poses, bow and kiss their hands, yet remain still travelers in imagination. The scene links to King Oberon and his Queen in summer pleasures.
A three hundred strong cavalry detachment encamped on the Big Wichita River in Texas fights a river crossing to escape nineteen attacking Indians. A boy named Charlie White, twenty three miles from his father’s rancho, shoots two warriors and helps save the party. The rescue becomes a legend told around border camps for years.
A fragment from the New York World describes a public figure as a larger man than Texas Governor M. Quad on the specified day. The context and full details are not provided in the readable text.
The text describes Florida scale jewelry made from bass scales cleaned to opaque white and folded into flower petals, mounted with silver wire. Flowers and buds decorate corsages, hair ornaments, and tortoise shell combs, with pansies, violets, sweet peas, and English daisies common. Tourists often take these pieces as souvenirs.
A Detroit Free Press note says silverware that tarnishes soon after cleaning and regains dark tone after subsequent washings signals a faulty drainage system in the house. The article treats tarnish as a practical household indicator of plumbing issues and advises checking the drainage setup.
Lorenzo F Sleeper of Appleton Maine praises August Flower for relief from severe dyspepsia. He recalls years of distress after eating and vomiting until using the remedy, which he says restored his appetite and eliminated fear of indigestion.
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