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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1892
Page
3
A collage of comic quips and vignettes from Harper's Bazaar New York Herald and Chicago Tribune feature jokes about fashion nursery talk and romance. Readers encounter playful dialogue about diamonds marriages baseball and social foibles with light humorous tone. The items mix quotations and cartoons reflecting early 20th century society.
A ScotchMay observer devised a pinning yarn and placed two mice in a cave like enclosure where they spun a small treadmill. An ordinary mouse can twist over a hundred threads daily, needing to run about ten and a half miles.
The article describes luthiers choosing wood from Tyrolean timbers for violins, assessing density by touch and sound, and aging wood in Brescia and Cremona heat. It notes Stradivarius’s workshop heat, varnish becoming part of the wood, and legends like Paganini’s soul in his violin.
A German lady in Manchester owns what is claimed as the world’s largest single volume Bible, a 200 year old heirloom with two foot long pages and red headed headings. A Manchester resident has compiled a Bible in ninety volumes with about ten thousand pictures and photographs. A brisk trade in second hand tombstones exists in London.
In Hungary and Bulgaria young girls gather on fete days wearing red petticoats with borders. White borders mark silver value of 100 francs yearly per band while yellow borders denote gold valued at 1,000 francs annually. The number of borders indicates the portion a father will provide.
A whale captured in Arctic waters bore a harpoon embedded in its side from a vessel that had been out of service for nearly fifty years, linking the catch to historic whaling gear and older maritime history.
Beecham s Pits offered as a painless remedy for biliary and nervous disorders sold by all druggists. A note on foot and mouth disease near London. Testimonial from Oscar F. Frost of Monmouth Maine praises Bradycrotine for chronic headaches. Catarrh cure claim by F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio with a $1 guarantee. Football referenced as a favorite game of ancient Greeks and Romans.
An advertisement promises a safe, sure cure for a woman's weaknesses with Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. It claims the medicine makes a new woman and guarantees satisfaction or money back. A persuasive sales pitch urges immediate trial, asserting no risk.
Advertisement touts Dr Pierce's Pleasant Pellets as smallest and cheapest remedy. Claims include prevention relief and cure of sick headache biliousness constipation indigestion and other liver stomach and bowel disorders.
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