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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1893
Page
7
A column mixes grooming advice for midday refreshment with fashion chatter. It covers accessories like glycerine and rose water, bold hat pins and rhinestones, lace skirts and silk bodices, and lists French dress trends, Parisian influence on Mme Carnot, and the growing role of improving a woman’s appearance at home and in public.
An elderly Philadelphia woman owns an unusual antique clock with two white porcelain bands and gilt hour and minute markers, supported by marble pillars. The mechanism is exposed and the piece rests on a black stand under a glass case, serving as a decorative retired family heirloom with Parisian revolutionary origins rumored but unverified.
The richest people in the world are said to be the sage Indians of Oklahoma with about 1,500 members. They report to the U S Treasury cash totaling 8 500 900 plus 1 400 000 acres of land valued at about 5 an acre. Eight hundred thousand dollars is held as interest funds and the tribal national council asks Uncle Sam to release it to pay debts.
Readers are invited to test a new bread making method that yields superior lightness and wholesomeness without yeast. Send results to Royal Baking Powder Co in New York and receive a free practical cookbook. An unrelated Western paper vows retribution for a deserted husband in a Richmond State notice.
A one time Archbishop of Paris Monsignor Affre travels in a diligence with several passengers. A lively traveling salesman jokes about bishops and asses. Affre cites difficulty in explaining the difference and then quips that he cannot tell a difference between a commercial traveler and an ass. The traveler alights at the next station.
Lyman Belding returns from a hunt near Murphy's Camp and, discussing a Mail article on Halfmoon Bay clams on a rock, claims oysters grow on mangrove-like dwarf trees at La Paz Bay. He notes oysters visible on branches when the tide recedes and the water level rests half a foot up the trunks.
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