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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1894
Page
3
The article promotes mixing buckwheat batter daily with Royal Baking Powder for light cakes. It contrasts old methods using fermented batter with a modern method, claims health and digestion benefits, and provides a basic recipe using buckwheat flour flour milk Royal Baking Powder and a hot griddle.
The report notes the alligator is slow growing yet long lived with a twelve footer believed to be about years old. Florida estimates show over 2,500,000 alligators killed in the last dozen years amid hunting and extermination pressures.
The remark suggests that hypocrites expose themselves when choosing virtue for rewards, implying moral appearance is driven by benefit rather than integrity.
Frank Close reports on two acres of Mar spring Wheat showing exceptionally high yields with claims of seventy to one hundred bushels per acre. The new wheat is touted as the greatest copping spring Wheat in the world and users anticipate strong prices per bushel. Salzer Seed Co offers a free catalog and wheat sample in exchange for the cutout offer.
In Lucas County Toledo a Frank J Cheney sworn as partner of the firm F J Chengsy Co promising to pay one hundred dollars for each case of catarrh uncured by Hall s Catarrh Cure. Also references cures and various nostrums and medical advertisements with claims of blood purification and vitality.
Ovina dismisses English fashion as grotesque while San Francisco leads global rapid transit with cable cars across main avenues and hills. Reports on Newburyport ships, a nurse’s view on meat, a British birching proposal for youths, football dangers, and a maritime salvage legal dispute frame a broad, diverse set of 1890s interests and issues.
The Yankee Blade notes insects as the strongest animals for size. Hercules beetle can lift over 500 times its weight, a man would lift 120 tons. Flea leaps over 200 times its height and drags 50 times its weight. Frog hopper can cover 250 body lengths. Oyster and limpet rival insect grip with immense force. Mites stride 500 steps per second, equating to 1,022 miles per hour for a horse. London to Birmingham would take six minutes.
John T. Miller of Portsmouth Ohio built a tall fence around his farm to curb venomous snakes. He released forty hogs inside the enclosure and found them thriving the next fall with no snakes remaining, leading him to believe the hogs ate all the reptiles.
Mrs. Ann Atkinson recalls a broad daylight assault years earlier in the city. She describes injuries, nervous collapse, and recovery after treatment and a cure she credits to Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People. The account includes notarized testimony from May 20, 1893.
Advertisement for Japanese Tooth Powder by Lapp Drug Co Philadelphia promotes the product as a cure for happiness using the slogan Every dollar a worldling makes is an unanswered prayer for happiness. A large box mailed for licents.
A vintage ad extols Beecham's Pills as remedy for overeating and claims no others match. It sells at 2 cents a box and urges broad faith to move mountains through mustard seed belief.
Promotes comfort and health by cleansing the system with a pure liquid laxative. The remedy improves digestion, helps clear colds and fevers, and works on the kidneys liver and bowels without weakening them. Sold by druggists in 50c and 1 bottles, manufactured only by the California Fig Syrup Co.
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