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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1892
Page
3
Gwendolin Evans of Birmingham, thirteen, rescued ten-year-old Cholmondeley Thompson from heavy seas while bathing. The Royal Humane Society awarded her a bronze medal. Evans learned to swim at a public bath and can swim a stretch.
A New York Dress item explains glove wear and how nails push through tips. It notes the left thumb wears first and suggests using a glove buttoner to extend life, describing inexpensive wire buttoners bent like hairpins joined by a chain ending in a hat pendant.
The New Orleans Times- Democrat reports a rising fad of face steamers among women. The contraption uses a spirit lamp to heat water and emit steam into the face, marketed as a skin cleanser.
A New York Advertiser portrait of newspaper women who start their day in hotel breakfasts fully cloaked and bonneted, carry waterproofs and umbrellas, and march into the day with a determined air ready for storms and surprises.
A New Orleans Picayune item suggests women may earn 84 a week as professional dusters cleaning parlors, libraries, and bric a brac or as visiting stocking indenders sorting mending and holes in stockings. The piece touts opportunity in these novel occupations for independent work at home.
A discussion of the era of the athletic young woman and the modern college. It describes physical fitness, independence, and potential rivalry with male institutions, plus then shifts to fashion trends including colors, fabrics, trims, and accessories of the season.
The Boston Post commentary argues hygiene and health concepts should lead higher education, outweigh Greek and Latin as cultural basics. It warns of lingering prejudices from excessive schooling and urges careful work by Professor Bragdon, with Lady Jane as a cautionary example.
A reflective piece on how women conceal pain and longing behind smiles and laughter. It argues admirers should freely offer sincere praise to brighten their unseen sorrows, noting women crave encouragement and will bless such kindness even if they doubt it.
The young future Senator Plumb, though now a millionaire, once showed he was green about business. He saved $100 in a local bank and refused to sign a check insisting on keeping the receipt, until it was explained that checks are the normal way to withdraw funds.
A report describes trunks made from a pressed paper material similar to paper car wheels. The article claims the paper's rigidity makes the trunks nearly impossible to damage.
A maple tree recently cut in New Hampshire produced seven cords of timber. This report notes the considerable yield from a single tree and identifies the location as New Hampshire.
Frank J. Cheney of F. J. Cheney & Co. swears to pay $14 for every ear of catarrh cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. The note is sworn December 6 before Notary A. W. Gleason. The ad urges internal use and mucous system action and offers testimonials and product sales in Toledo Ohio.
Auction notice states Philadelphia mint will pay 27 dollars for an eagle coin dated 177. The offer targets a critical early date, inviting collectors to consign pieces matching the description to the mint.
A dense jumble of largely ad style notes cites Syrup of Figs from California Fig Syrup Co, Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co offerings, Beecham's Pills, Dr Kline's NERVE Restorative, and Swan's Pastiles. Also referenced are railroads, the White House wing cost estimate, and insistent health claims with free trials and samples.
The piece notes Europe produces over twenty million barrels of port and cement annually. It mentions eye care with Dr Isaac Thomson's Eye-water selling at two shillings per bottle and adds a remark that the dolphin is the fastest swimmer in the sea.
A vintage advertisement extols Favorite Prescription as a tonic for nervous and ailing women. It claims to restore health, calm nerves, and cure female complaints with a money back guarantee.
An old fashioned patent medicine claim describes Dr Pierce's Pleasant Pellets as mild and thorough. The pills are said to cleanse and regulate the liver stomach and bowels and are presented as the smallest cheapest and easiest to take option.
J D Cox of Allegheny Pa reports five months of dyspepsia with fullness after meals and sickness. After two weeks on August Flower he improved, regained appetite, and gained twenty pounds while employed at Thomas McHenry’s drugstore.
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