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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1888
Page
2
A fragmented verse poem fragment contrasts a comedy label The Joker's Budget with a scene titled The Picnic Season. It invokes playful images of a bootblack, a boy, and picnic imagery featuring peach custard pies and snakes frolicking in mustard around a picnic ground.
A string of humorous vignettes from newspapers and magazines features flirtatious melodrama with Amy May and Alfred, a Wall Street windfall claim, vaudeville-like gags with punchlines about money and love, and a sequence of jokes about manners, fashion, and social foibles.
Four times yearly the New Castle jail yard hosts quarter sessions punishments with the pillory and cat of nine tails for theft and related offenses. The public, including children and locals, watches as prisoners endure lashes, sometimes in cold rain, under aging judges and a stern sheriff.
Tom Harris, a cowboy from the Staked Plains Texas, is recovering at the Pacific Hotel after a hydrophobia bite from a so called hydrophobia cat in Indian Territory. Dr J W Dickson uses mudstones to draw pus and ease swelling. Harris traveled from Fort Elliott to Kansas City for care. The doctor notes the cat is distinct from a skunk and claims it spreads hydrophobia to both people and animals, with cases traced to Texas Kansas and Western Missouri. Chief Keokukowa of the Sac and Fox tribe was among Dickson’s former patients.
A fragmentary tale traces Major Reins the English officer’s heartbreak in England then service in America. He vows to protect two sisters, journeys to St Joseph Island, marries both sisters, and fathers a large family amid evolving fortunes and a fading frontier world.
A young woman stormed a Paris wedding before the ceremony and presented the groom with a baby, calling him coward. The groom protested, the bride fainted, then the intruder admitted the baby was not her child’s father and apologized.
A. B. Shiffer of New Holland Pennsylvania has lived over sixteen years unable to swallow solid food after a watermelon stuck in his throat. Doctors tried mustard plaster and later instruments to widen the esophagus but the stricture worsened and he remains forced to receive liquid nourishment while his wife and daughters cope at home.
Fragmentary note shows a corn sale yielding a barrel of whisky and a breakdown of shares. Government and railroad portions are listed, with vendors and sellers receiving other fractions. total figures appear inconsistent in the damaged OCR.
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