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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1892
Page
2
The report analyzes 1890 pauper census data showing 73 045 paupers in almshouses with a male excess in early ages and shifting gender balance across age brackets. It cites a dramatic hair gray case from Crawfordsville Ind and previews World’s Fair transportation displays and a Hotaka diary curiosities.
Prof W R Lighton discovers a prehistoric village more than 100 miles from Socorro New Mexico. The canyon site yields six foot high stone walls central square houses and extensive pottery including copper chisel durable vessels and tools. The ruins span several acres with rooms and artifacts in remarkable condition.
Notes recount a plan to form a New Hampshire enterprise of railroad and hotel interests to build a monumental electric search light beacon. The device would be visible from Portland and possibly Boston under favorable conditions.
The Kansas City Times reports an unusual industry using the wild Mexican soap weed. Deep prairie roots are dug, boiled, and processed into semi transparent cakes of toilet soap, with the root lacking alkali content despite growing in alkali soils.
An iron founder explains the craft of sleigh bell production. A mud ball shaped inside the bell houses the jinglet before casting, creating a hollow space that later fills with metal and dirt which is shaken out to leave a ringing bell. The process takes years to perfect.
The Svensksund built by Kockum Engineering Works Malmo joins the Swedish Navy. Length 120 feet breadth 21 feet draught unknown. Armed with four Nordenfelt guns and torpedoes. Also acts as ice breaker tug fire steamer and torpedo repair ship with water pumps and condensers. Engines 150 indicated HP speed 123 knots. Iron.
In Port Crescent Leader style a hunter named Ginger tracks a herd of thirty five elk on the Soleduck River area near Beaver Prairie. He ambushes the lead bull with a single shot causing a dramatic fall and rapid quelling of the group. The hunter returns home with elk steaks and plans to pack more the next day. John Ruskin noted as a poet at age eleven.
The letter from the daughter of Edward Hilbert of 3 Pressway Lawrence Massachusetts describes a family health crisis. It recounts six children and a daughter born ten years ago who suffered ongoing illness and poor growth from infancy, with the details truncated mid sentence.
In a troubling account a woman faints repeatedly, turning black and near death mid episodes. Doctors warned she was in a dangerous condition amid unclear causes and a deteriorating health situation.
A fragment describes a family giving herbal remedies to a ill relative. After starting Heed saparilla the patient improves as fits lessen until none remain. At year end health declines, age noted as 67 and later a child aged 10 is mentioned in the tale.
The text references a child described as healthy and rugged, mentions years of treatment and several bottles, and notes periods of complaint about feeling unwell. The fragmentary source provides no clear event, outcome, or identifiable figures beyond vague medical context.
An OCR fragment highlights strong praise for Hood's Sarsaparilla as a remedy for liver ills. The ad cites a testimonial from Hitsest, Lawrence, extolling the product's curative claims.
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