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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1892
Page
3
A fragmented compilation mocks humor columns and comic sketches. Jokes about clocks falling, implement banter, and social foibles appear with illustrations from Black and White Cloak Review Puck and other periodicals. The piece blends lampoon dialogue and captions across eras.
The article traces ancient wrought iron artifacts including a sickle blade found by Belzoni near Thebes, a blade in the Great Pyramid mortar found by Vyse, and a Nimrod saw piece, all now in the British Museum. It notes a Damascus steel bar given by Porus to Alexander the Great, preserved in Constantinople, and mentions Indian iron pillar work dating up to ten centuries before the Christian era.
A Swiss government laboratory manager in Thun devised a bullet cover process to curb barrel wear in the Mann licher rifle. The leaden bullet is enclosed in a thin metallic layer and wrapped in specially prepared eleagineous paper, reducing wear without hindering bullet flight.
The late Sir William Waite of England held mastery of twenty eight languages showcasing his linguistic breadth and scholarly stature noted in obituaries and tributes from the period.
The passage extols memory of past pleasure and recounts improved health through Warner’s Safe Cure as praised by Annie Jenness Miller. It emphasizes mental care, overwork, sleepless nights, and the cure bringing happiness, health, and strength, framing the medicine as a universal healing discovery.
The Canadian Pacific road will abandon its Ontario route due to heavy snow and instead operate through Minnesota and Wisconsin, altering travel and freight paths. The move shifts mainline service away from Ontario while maintaining regional connections in the northern United States.
Webster's International Dictionary is a revised unabridged work created over ten years by a large editorial staff under Noah Porter. The publishers claim it is the best English language dictionary, offering knowledge, taste, and refinement, with a free pamphlet of sample pages from G. and C. Merriam Co.
The essential ingredient in safety matches is chlorate of potash mixed with other combustible substances.
An old time drug advertisement touts Bradycrotine as a universal headache cure under any condition. The claim promises prompt relief from headaches with a single bottle available to consumers for fifty cents.
Edom Texas farmer John F Jones writes that German Syrup has cured his sore throat coughs colds hoarseness chest and lung pains and spitting blood after years of use He claims it is the best cough medicine despite changing damp weather and widespread cold symptoms in his family.
Report notes diminishing Russian influence in Constantineple Turkey. Advertisement mentions B. F. Autes & Co at BStana Street New York as agents for seecham's Piis at 2 cents a hex. Gladstone reportedly seeks £1 note in circulation in England.
A vintage advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure with a 100 dollar reward for incurable catarrh and includes multiple Toledo druggists endorsements. An odd closing line notes the Emperor of China has ten men to carry his umbrella.
A neat pocket schedule of National League baseball games for the season is issued by Johnsons Anodyne Liniment in a Pleasure Series. It mirrors the New England Leagues plan and lists daily game venues. Copies cost ten cents or five cents by mail from I S Johnson Co Boston.
The advertisement touts Syrup of Figs as a pleasant taste and gentle yet prompt laxative for kidneys liver and bowels. It claims effective cold and fever relief and habitual constipation cure, noting it is the only remedy of its kind and available in 5 cent and 1 dollar bottles at leading druggists.
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