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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1894
Page
3
In a fragment from a city scene Mrs Cornrossel’s visitor notes the photograph resembles Josiah but with a eerie gaze and drawn mouth. Josiah wanted to visit the photographer to get his money’s worth, yet she doubted it would help.
Three students from Ecole des Beaux Arts Marseilles discuss prizes in a café. One brags of a pine wood carved to imitate marble sinking in water. The second claims a thermometer fell to twenty. The third boasts a lifelike portrait of a marquis needing weekly shaving.
A playful note argues copyright cannot block a poem or song parody. The author defends creative parody despite copyright claims and invites readers to appreciate humor that riffs on original works.
The Little Falls duck farm on the Greenwood Lake Division near New York operates a 16 acre site with 4 000 birds, two acres of ducks, and dense marshlike pens. Ducks and geese are fattened for market, shipped live to New York with some slaughtered on site, and processed in a local packing division. The operation relies on cornmeal feed and a rail route that brings birds from Indiana aboard stock cars.
George C. Hunter of Oakland suffers a total memory loss quoted by the San Francisco Examiner. He remains living and active but cannot remember his wife or his mother, nor can he read write or recall basic arithmetic learned in school.
Recent findings show Egyptians embalmed animals alongside humans, with dogs cats monkeys and many others treated as sacred. The process varied by animal with heads preserved and bodies represented by wood. Mummies like ibis birds were common in pots and catacombs held for sacred crocodiles.
A Maine buyer-seller dispute hinges on what counts as hard wood. A Penobscot County man delivered white birch and poplar instead of maple or beech, arguing a court ruling that leaf-bearing trees are hard wood. The decision draws a line between evergreen and deciduous varieties.
The article notes world sugar plantations produce about 6 million tons annually and that Paris consumes over 2 thousand tons of snails each year.
A New York Sun note explains how a common moth could decorate itself by feeding habits and flannel coverings in evolving colors red white and blue through staged transfers. The Stub bade of Thought follows with aphorisms on sunshine, sowers mood, poetry, smiles, beauty, love, hope, and exchange.
An advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as a blood based internal remedy for catarrh, claims expert prescription roots, and offers testimonials. Also promotes Brown's Iron Bitters for toning and Beecham's Pills for digestion, with various patent medicine lines and prices.
Readers who have not received the diary for August are urged to send name and address by postal card to obtain No 34. The offer promises a complete illustrated diary suitable for daily memoranda and promises delivery by return mail free of all expense. Act quickly before stock runs out.
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