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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1893
Page
7
A collage of light vignettes from Chicago and Detroit items. Jests on dating manners and social pretensions mix with domestic quips about love, money, and elevator fads. Humorous exchanges, brief puns, and magazine blurbs capture early 20th century urban life with sharp wit.
A Victorian style guide describes making corned beef hash with chopped cold beef and potatoes, butter, stock, and slow cooking. It extols veal’s value for stocks, sauces, and delicate dishes, highlighting breast veal preparation, tenderizing, pressing, and serving with gravy and optional peas or browned potatoes.
The article discusses Bessel's early parallax measurements to locate a star in Cygnus and compares cosmic distances to human understanding. It cites light speeds and the Milky Way’s vastness, noting Herschel’s claims of light taking 120000 years to reach Earth and proposing calculations to illustrate incomprehensible scales.
Readers are informed of a bold promotion by the seed house of Mesra through Peter Henderson & Co of New York. The advertisement in this issue contains full particulars portraying a remarkable proposition unmatched in these days of inducements. Athens Greece is called the paradise of the Bibliomaniac.
An old advertisement promotes Syrup of Figs as a gentle cleansing remedy for the family. It touts one bottle for all, priced at W cents or a large size for $1, and credits the California Fig Syrup Co with manufacturing. The note also mentions average yearly letter writing per person at 44 letters.
A fragment notes a cow Entheran coll e established in Taxa, indicating a local agricultural matter or landholding designation. Further readable context is limited.
Albert Hartley of Hudson North Carolina survived pneumonia after his doctor failed to help and a single bottle of German Syrup restored his health. S.B. Gardimer of Dier with J. E. Barr in Aurora Texas avoided a severe pneumonia by timely German Syrup use.
Instructions from the Dallas News describe scalding, cleaning, and stuffing a possum with sweet potatoes then burying it in moist ground with shucks and coals. The method, praised for tender meat and preserved aroma, is also used for fish and even calf head during camping trips.
The Indian Antiquary notes Thibetans show mild mercy to cats. They hide or drive away cats that spill milk or destroy items, while dogs or children would be beaten. Cats are useful for guarding sacred objects yet deemed sinful for their constant killing of life and the belief sins transfer to the offender.
Esparto grass from Spain and North Africa is recommended for U S introduction. It thrives on arid soils, is pulled twice yearly, and grows from seed or root divisions. Ten tons per acre can yield valued at 320 to 25 dollars per ton. Spain ships about 60,000 tons to Great Britain annually. Good writing paper can be made from it.
The Detroit Free Press recalls John Fitch as a forgotten pioneer who built a steamboat on the Schuylkill, faced failure and poverty, sought funding from Congress and France, and died by his own hand while others later profited from his ideas.
A St. Louis Republic excerpt extols lemons grapes and tomatoes as highly valuable medically. It suggests preserving their uses could cure or greatly alleviate cancer and similar diseases beyond current surgical and medical capabilities.
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