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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1889
Page
7
A Sunday sermon denounces bribery and misuse of trust funds in politics and business. It warns that bribery corrupts courts and legislatures, harms widows and orphans, and taints public finance, urging honesty, religious revival, and personal accountability.
Excerpt contrasts social equality with fate and equity as a moral reflection. It then reports a Dartmouth Medical College case of chronic hydrocephalus in a 32 month old child whose head expanded to weigh 45 pounds while body weighed 7, leaving the infant unable to stand and with minimal signs of intelligence.
An English artist develops a nocturnal photographic method using Balmain’s luminous paint on a plate to capture Mount Blane’s silhouette after sunset. By pressing a exposed lime carbonate plate to a dry plate in darkness, he yields a complete mountain image in an hour, supporting the idea of light absorbed by day and emitted at night. Experiments in Prague produce night photographs, hinting at actinic ray fixation for astronomical mapping and broader uses.
Sir Lyon Playfair relates three men who escaped after partial devouring by wild beasts. Livingstone faced a lion with curiosity rather than fear as his arm was torn. Rastem Pasha endured a bear mauling and anger at the bear’s grunting. Sir Edward Bradford describes a tiger bite beginning at the hand and ending at the shoulder, with no fear and little pain.
Historical notes describe rabies cases starting December 24 1888 with bites on the right arm wrist and shoulder. Louis Dufour a seventy two year old man died February 13 after nine days of incubation and a violent progression including hydrophobia spasms and self injury.
A clipped line from rec. Magazine hints at a flirtatious plot as a suitor asks Mr Jobson to part with his daughter Clara. The exchange suggests a friction between propriety and romantic impulse in a provocative domestic scene.
A fragmentary clipping describes Captain Ingraham as a well known Birmingham resident who faces a cyclone incident. It notes confusion during the search for missing crew and questions about their fate and whereabouts amid the storm.
Emmons Blaine General Freight Agent of the Chicago Santa Fe California Railroad resigns with resignation to take effect April 1.
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