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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1892
Page
3
A collage of humorous snippets from gossip and light verse debates. Jests on memory, excuses, and proposals mingle with wry quotes from The New York Press and Life. Dialogues touch on marriage, weather, status, and social pretenses with a playful, old newspaper cadence.
Four Penobscot families resided in a board shanty at Cape Elizabeth during last winter and earned together 3116 a month making baskets. A note on medical remedies mentions Dr Isaac Thompson's Lye water prescribed by druggists at Lopes per bottle. The Chilean agricultural section contends 3 418 000 acres with soil described as highly fertile.
John Gilbert of Holt Ontario, long unable to recover from liver and kidney failure, used August Flower and appeared completely restored. Neighbors and family witnessed a dramatic improvement described as magical and astonished by the turnaround.
A revived gold belt in North Georgia near Dahonege sparks heavy investment from northern and western capitalists. The Atlanta Gold Mining Company forms with a $100,000 cap stock to develop Bertha Mine on Lumpkin County lot 523 15th District, offering shares at five dollars each and using Southern Banking and Trust as depository.
The note states that British India wool exports will be as heavy as two years earlier. It also warns about headaches and a remedy, Bradycrotine, priced at fifty cents. Germany has spent over 3,650,000 fighting the phylloxera.
An advertisement touts Dr Hoxsies Certain Croup Cure as the only remedy to prevent memoraneces or vary and keep air passages open to prevent pneumonia. No opium. Sold by leading druggists. Manufactured by A. P. Hoxsie Buffalo NY. Also notes sheep in Cape Colony South Africa appearing poor and sickly.
The ad touts Dr. Pierre’s Favorite Prescription as a safe vegetable tonic and nervine for women. It claims to regulate action during girlhood to womanhood and the change of life, alleviating irregularities and weaknesses with guaranteed satisfaction or money back.
A historic medical line promotes Syrup of Figs as a gentle laxative to relieve habitual constipation. It claims to awaken kidney and liver activity without irritation, dispel headaches and fevers, and restore balanced digestion.
The article notes a disastrous season for poultry, with young stock particularly hard hit. It cites widespread losses and the impact on farmers who rely on chicks and pullets for upcoming production.
F A Morton in Missouri’s Farmington area trapped a four foot eight inch horned owl weighing several hundred pounds in a steel trap tied with fifteen feet of rope. The nocturnal thief had damaged fencing while trying to escape and Morton says it is the largest of its species he has ever seen and could have carried off a pig or lamb.
A white and light evening dress trimming features three rows of falling loops of baby ribbon forming a band about nine inches wide. The same trimming on the waist and sleeves makes an affordable, effective decoration.
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