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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1888
Page
2
A collage of humorous vignettes from Punch style quips featuring Dumley and Mrs Hendricks in a domestic scene, then quick tapas on spring folly and love misfires. The piece threads jokes from Miss Clara Sampson to Parisian kitchen wit and street corner banter.
A collage of humorous exchanges from early 1900s papers includes stage theatrics, a lightning rods sales pitch, a misdirected proposal, and light banter between travelers and locals. Pieces span Nebraska Jobson, Washington Critic, Y. Sun and Teras Sifcings with jokes about marriage, floods, and travel.
The article traces historic views on forests from Palissy to Humboldt and Becquerel, noting forests regulate rainfall and prevent soil erosion. It cites European regions where clearing reduced rivers, caused droughts, and desertification, and highlights replanting programs in France, Northwestern India, and the United States as evidence that restoring woodlands improves climate, rainfall, and agricultural yields.
Kansas City police chief Speers displays a pasteboard box with torn currency from a $5,000 stockman loot. A six inch round steel pocket knife, sharpened to slice fabric silently, is shown as the pickpocket’s instrument. The tool and mutilated bills came from a train theft on arrival at Union Depot.
A Lewiston man boasting a top incubator discovers a lifelike chicken mock up. He exults over a claimed miracle but opens the device to find a yellow down dummy on April Fool’s Day, ending with a hearty family laugh.
The essay sympathizes with the boast that no child should grow up ignorant while noting many learn to read but not to think. It warns that reading about cures for illness, such as Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, is useless without personal testing and applying the lesson.
M. de Bec states that the sense of smell is vanishing in civilized society and implies the nose would become unnecessary as a result.
A sensational medical claim touts Dr Sage’s Catarrh Remedy as a cure after all other treatments fail. The notice notes Algiers plans to start exporting claret, expanding local trade activity.
An advertisement touts Kemp's Balsam as a guaranteed remedy for coughs. It claims druggists will give free sample bottles and notes large bottles cost 50 cents or 1 dollar.
An ardent Ban sportsman, ice fishing, hooks a live shiner and lands a fine trout that reveals a lost chisel snagged on its handle. He recounts the surprise as the tool swung free from mud near the hole, tying together a curious double catch.
Isaiah Walton of Byron Georgia states he has five daughters whose combined weight exceeds 1,000 pounds.
A fragmentary scene shows Potts tired of sighing and finally buying the lots, ending his gloom. London medical students plan to assemble at Charing Cross to meet Morell Mackenzie on his return to London.
A fragment urges readers to contact B. F. Johnson & Co. in Richmond Virginia to learn a method to produce hundreds of dogs in the coming months, targeting teachers ministers farmers sons and similar workers.
A letter to the editor by T. A. Slocum M.C. proposes a cure for consumption and offers two free bottles to readers who mail their express and P. O. addresses. He cites past success with “hopeless cases” and provides his Pearl Street address in Sy.
Dr J S Combs of Owensville Ohio reports four hereditary cough and chest disease cases improved markedly using Scott s Emulsion of Cod Liver with Hypophosphites. Patients gained weight and show reduced symptoms with no medicine needed now. Advertising rates available from the publisher.
An advertisement touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as the best spring blood purifier. It claims it cleanses the blood, clears the head, boosts appetite, and energizes the body. Endorsed by users sharing relief from fatigue, headaches, and pains after taking the remedy.
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