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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1890
Page
2
A collage of brief clippings and quips from Life Chicago Journal Chicago Tribune New York Weekly Epoch Philadelphia Inquirer Louisville Journal Puck Munson's Weekly and others. The items touch on wit romance street chatter and social satire in a jumble of tiny captions and dialogue.
The article ironizes railroad resignations as a quiet industry ritual while noting genuine churn in railway offices. It reports cholera spreading from Mesopotamia into Persia, Russian Caspian ports as escape routes, and frontier fears.
A Denver letter to the New York World portrays William Barclay Masterson known as Bat Masterson as a square, thirty five year old frontier hero who fought and killed in fair fights defending the weak while building a varied career as buffalo hunter Indian scout sheriff and gambler. Born in Middleport Illinois he rode from youth with a Colt revolver and spoke French and Mexican. The piece recounts Adobe Walls siege Dodge City sheriff years and rescues of captives the Germaine sisters and confrontations with cowboys in 1877 ending with his enduring reputation and refined manners rather than words about his life.
The Lancet argues embalming can uniquely preserve a body for identification two millennia after death. The New York Press questions who would perform such intricate preservation and identification work.
Fragmentary OCR notes mention Vest and Way in a weather disrupted event with rain causing rescheduling. No clear dates or locations are readable.
A garbled passage describes a misheard rhyme about cats canaries and a room wife, mentioning training and teaching in unclear terms. The fragment hints at a venting aside about past events and a rascally figure, but the meaning remains obscured.
Fragmentary notes recount a family with twins and siblings, mentioning Miles and Giles, Torpy, and a local candidate for a town post. Messy OCR preserves few clear facts but hints at a long lived ancestor and family ties, with references to a wife, children, and civic links.
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