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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1888
Page
6
A collection of literary pieces and essays exploring satire on finance and childhood travel. The edition features an editor's note and serialized selections, highlighting contrasts between wit and simplicity.
A collage of jokes letters and brief dialogues from various papers includes a dead-letter office note about Sylvester Brown in Silver City Idaho a quip about Tommy Traddles and the Harlem empire a butter joke a tutor and student exchange a series of punchlines about elevators jeers and domestic sits and glimpses of life in urban chatter across multiple newspapers with humorous vignettes and local color.
A woman declares she will end an engagement citing her fiancé's deafness and bad habits while another suggests he use Dr Sage s Catarrh Remedy. A third observer notes a stylish seal skin sacque drawing glances from others.
Periodical pains internal inflammation and ulceration yield to its healing powers. It is the only medicine for women sold by druggists with a guarantee of satisfaction or money back, printed on the bottle wrapper and honored for many years. The piece ends with a fateful line about Fate's hard hand.
Letter to the editor states a remedy cures consumption with thousands of cures claimed and offers two free bottles to readers who send express and postal addresses. Signatory T A Slocum M C 181 Pearl St New York invites participation.
The advertisement touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as the top spring medicine and blood purifier. It claims a concentrated extract from superior vegetable remedies and a unique preparation for genuine curative power. It asserts the medicine is "100 doses one collar" and presents this as an unanswerable argument.
The article notes advances in surgery including pneumotony the removal of diseased lung tissue for consumption. It cautions the procedure's high risk and rarity, and promotes Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a safe early cure to arrest the disease.
A quirky claim suggests an ostrich can kick harder than a cow yet cannot switch you in the eye with 15 tall. The statement mixes animal strength with a nonsensical eye contact note.
A youth thanks B. F. Johnson & Co. of Richmond Virginia for placing him in a job that allows faster earnings. The note is among hundreds of similar letters received by the firm, highlighted by their advertisement in a separate column.
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