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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1893
Page
3
Fragmentary OCR captures a local social scene with references to Tywo visiting the Czar and Hiram, lively chatter about kisses and laughter, and multiple asides about neighbors and gatherings. The text reads as a stream of dialect with uncertain names and locations.
A collage of short wits and quips from several papers including the Globe the Press the Philadelphia Record Indianapolis Journal and the Chicago Tribune. Jests touch on fate luck heroes cynicism and everyday human foibles with punchlines about servants mannerisms and mischief.
A miscellany of strange events and curiosities from around the world. A Bombay pop cat tale follows a Liverpool owner who sent a cat to India and later found it back in England. Other notes recount petrified wood in Yellowstone and Dakota, a wolf mistaken for another wolf, a woman found dead with savings, and quirky local happenings from Archangel to Allentown.
Doctor W A Tilden observed that the compound isoprene derived from turpentine can under certain conditions resemble genuine india rubber. Bonchardat showed heat may induce the same change. The material vulcanizes and could become a commercial rubber, promising a potential fortune for successful inventors with reasonable costs.
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