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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1889
Page
7
In a Sunday sermon Rev. Dr. Talmage warns against mixing with wrong companions. He urges youths to avoid gamblers, burglars, idlers, skeptics, and pleasure seekers and to pursue steady work, Christian character, and prudent amusements. He contrasts worldly folly with the rewards of virtue and religious devotion.
Reverend Talmage addressed five thousand listeners in New York arguing the Conemaugh disaster shows natural forces, not religion alone, and urging charity for Pennsylvania flood victims while denouncing greed and materialism. He cites 1877 Ganges floods and praises martyr faith as sustaining sufferers. He ends urging attendance at relief meeting and practical aid.
The Epicure notes coffee as a superior stimulant for hard work and a substitute for alcohol to curb drunkenness. It advocates precise boiling methods to preserve aroma, claims malaria and epidemics are deterred by morning coffee, and cites physicians who call coffee a typhoid fever specific.
Instructions for roasting an eight pound porterhouse with bone removed and fat trimmed. Tie into circle, lard with bacon, season with salt pepper thyme and flour, add onions bay leaf and stock, bake and baste until browned yet rare inside. Make gravy from pan fat, flour and water, season and boil until smooth. Serve hot.
A Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce report describes Miss Bryn a Chicago grain trader whose disciplined system aims for large profits in wheat. She buys on rises and scales back on declines, doubling positions with each cent move, then selling after steady gains or closing out on losses, and she watches the market closely to decide bear or bull stance for the next day. The article notes her success over the past year and compares her notoriety to Ruth the gleaner while raising questions about the longevity of her method.
The text surveys greeting customs worldwide, noting the handshake as a universal yet varying sign of equality. It contrasts English reserve with American friendliness, and details habits from Germans kissing hands to Russians kissing foreheads, Hindus prostrating, Chinese dismounting, Japanese bowing, and Pacific islanders nose rubbing, ending with Turks and Arabs showing respect through gestures.
Health officials diverge on which nation leads Europe in health. The Registrar General backs England while Chadwick argues long sanitary effort could make England as healthy as Sweden. Death rates for Sweden and the UK in 1871-80 are cited, with sickness levels noted as among Europe’s lowest. A Scottish prison is joked as the world’s healthiest place. Russian visitors study American irrigation hoping to apply lessons to Central Asia’s desert reclamation and the Merv oasis.
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