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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1888
Page
3
A survey of freshman class cries from Harvard to Williams shows each college adopting a distinct battle shout. The piece traces origins from Aristophanes to modern university lore, noting rhythms, phonetics, and the role of student culture in creating unique college identifications for 1892.
The essay asks what constitutes beauty and compares standards across cultures. It cites Circassian women, Moors, Tunisian Jews, Chinese poets, and various practices such as body modification, facial flattening, tooth work, and elaborate cosmetics, noting wide, sometimes extreme ideas of beauty among different peoples. It ends by noting beauty, like manners and morals, is largely a matter of perspective.
A Scottish woman detained for intoxication refuses to reveal her age. After a humorous exchange she offers a riddle-like calculation, and Lt. Schribner finally declares her age as sweet sixteen. The scene draws on playful algebra and local color from Cleveland.
An editorial piece extols the virtues of a well regulated body likened to a precise machine. It argues brawn and brain require regular care, avoids nobles and hereditary titles, and credits Warner's Log Cabin sarsaparilla with maintaining a pure blood flow for sustained power and success.
A patient complains of dragging pains and seeks relief through Dr Pierce s Favorite Prescription. The advertisement asserts the medicine cures female ailments and prolapsus, offering a money back guarantee if not satisfying.
A herd of nearly 2,000 Angora goats is reported to be running loose along the banks of the Little Wood River, with details about the situation not known. Local authorities and residents are urged to monitor the area and take appropriate precautions.
W H Dean of 278 Seventh Street New York testifies that Cock's Porous Plasters relieved violent back pain within half an hour and allowed him to walk and work within two hours. He continued wearing the plasters for a week to ensure recovery.
A fragment notes Cart. Tree, a seasoned New England sailing master who crossed oceans in his own bark. A playful riddle ponders the doormat’s kin to the door, and an old ad promotes Piso's Cure for Consumption with a 2c price and a nudge for special rates to the paper’s publisher.
In Japan old physicians may wear only wooden swords and a druggist selling Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery allegedly improved coughs colds and various ailments. Reportedly even the Mikado was helped and the importer earned the right to wear a noble sword, a sign of exceptional approval.
The annual timber harvest in the Adirondacks is estimated at 200 million feet with most of the work performed by mills near Glens Falls.
A testimonial touts Scott's Emulsion of Pure Cod Liver Oil with Hypophosphites as a valued food and medicine for general debility wasting in children and consumption. A hospitalized patient reportedly gained flesh and strength after doctors had given up hope, with life apparently prolonged.
The prosecuting attorney questions a prisoner charged with drunkenness and disorder in police court. The man says he is from Boston and works driving the horses for the car, denying any other business. He asserts that driving the car would be an impossibility.
The text notes that Americans are greatly disturbed by the doctrine of election, reflecting widespread concern about the concept and implications of electoral processes.
A quirky pitch promotes Kemp's Balsam for coughs and colds with free sample bottles from druggists before purchase. Large bottles cost one dollar. The note urges a trial, claiming it could prevent consumption, and ends with a line about the waist of time being the middle of an hourglass.
Miss Belle P Smail elected superintendent of schools at St Johnsbury Vermont. She is a graduate of the New Hampshire Normal School of Amherst.
An advertisement asserts catarrh cannot wear out and urges treatment of colds to prevent or end catarrh using Dr Lace's Catarrh Remedy sold at all druggists.
Joke question about an old maid wearing mittens to keep off the chaps. presented as a playful riddle.
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