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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1891
Page
2
The Atlantic Monthly piece explains why first New England meeting houses often stood on hills or remote uplands. Elevation served as watchpost and landmark, aided travel visibility, and reflected Puritan taste for a sightly location amid evolving town layouts.
Popular Science Monthly notes well documented cases of tortoises living long lives. In New Jersey a tortoise marked C. D. 1886 was last seen in 1886, likely dead, while others marked 1849 and 1851 were observed years later. Estimating ages from marking suggests life spans of sixty to seventy years, with some perhaps reaching a century, though hoaxes by children with old dates occur.
French explorer Crampel sends a brief description of the Bayayas dwarfs north of the Ogome River in the French Congo. They stand about 4.4 feet tall, are heavy and dumpy with thick eyebrows and Hebraic noses, short necks, large abdomens and wrists, and bandy legs. They appear timid yet curious and fixate on the explorer.
An expert swimmer describes a stunt where a man sinks with a lighted sugar and cigar in his mouth then surfaces smoking the cigar. The observer explains the illusion and the technique involves flipping the cigar end for end as he dives, countering natural expectations.
A 900 pound grizzly roared from a winter den in an abandoned crosscut at a Santa Maria mine in Sonora California. John Neil and three miners fought the bear for an hour in darkness, ending when a pick spine blow felled the animal. Dougherty was severely injured.
The New York City Live Stock Trade for 1890 shows a record number of beeves, calves, and cows sold. Prices for beef edged up slightly over 1889, with 688 015 beeves totaling about 13 251 weekly, and average live weight price near 4.41 per hundred pounds. Hogs reached a peak weekly average of 40 747, but pork prices fell from 1889 levels. Foreign beef trade grew about one quarter yet remained unprofitable, while expectations lean toward more dressed meat shipments on steamers.
Floss silk or fleuret is raveled silk broken from cocoons and carded like cotton. It is steamed to remove gummy matter then pressed and oiled to pliancy before carding and spinning into yarn for bands shawls socks and other fabrics. Italy France and England now produce pretty fine fabrics from this material. The Latania Borbonica is noted as the largest palm cultivated in this country.
An old advertise ment extols a tonic that boosts appetite and digestion. It claims to cure dyspepsia and improve overall health, citing Mr James J McCaller of Monet Mo who allegedly suffered eight years before benefiting from the remedy.
A reminiscence recounts a teacher's round in a rural district boarding arrangement. The host family stores, morning songs, and playful mischief of two boys interrupt the teacher's rest, with scenes of pancake and pie requests and curious early risers shaping a comic memory.
Letters from customers across Quebec Australia and the United States endorse August Flower as a cure and relief for dyspepsia. Testimonies describe complete relief miracle results and strong recommendations from Ed Bergeron C A Barrington Gen Gates and G G Green sole manufacturer Woodbury New Jersey U S A.
The excerpt notes Victoria school children ride street cars free amid various ad snippets. It mentions cash offers in Kansas City advertising plans with high returns and a detergent claim for Dobbin’s Electric soap. The text mixes light dialogue with product pitches and unrelated notices.
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