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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1892
Page
3
A remarkable bedquilt by George W. Buell from Mer is shown as a standout among female handiwork. The piece features raised-work designs including a full-rigged ship, a cottage gate scene, and a water testing motif. It employs vivid colors and intricate towers and flora, all hand-sewn over nine years.
The Christian Register notes a Telegram by cable quoting Third epistle of John verses 13 14 with blessing and greetings, cautioning it may be too late to send congratulatory car for the Lon Son Inquirer jubilee.
A fairy seed planted by a narrator grows into a magical vine with gold flowers. It yields a Jack o lantern and a grand Thanksgiving pie as a moral awakening for Youths Companion readers.
A Detroit Free Press tale opens with Columbus debating egg tricks at a royal dinner then shifts to a boy named Johnnie who endures two days of squash meals. Grandfather relents after the boy laments the squash diet, promising he will remember the punishment forever.
A New York Recorder item narrates Charlie facing a puzzled study night over the misnamed misc table in his arithmetic. his mother recalls her own struggles with twelve times eleven and other tasks, noting his gloomy mood yet steady effort.
A child sobs over a bursting bundle with a soiled shirt while a boy, about ten, steps in as a knight on foot. He carries the bundle to the laundry, speaks kindly, and calms the distressed girl. The narrator calls him a real gentleman and a genuine nineteenth century knight.
Johnnie schemes to prize the county giant squash for the fair. He plants a flag and fences it with sticks, damaging the giant squash in the process. Grandpa Ferris condemns the prize, and Johnnie must eat the ruined squash as punishment.
In St Louis Republic details reveal Polyphemus caterpillar growth from one twentieth of a grain to 207 grains in fifty six days. It consumes about ninety grains of solid food by day thirty and not less than thirty leaves weighing three quarters of a pound by full growth, illustrating food intake far surpassing initial weight.
The papaw plant has long been cited for tenderizing meat across cultures. Travelers note natives using papaw juice to soften pork and beef, with examples from India Jamaica Barbados and Quito. A Mauritius account recalls wrapping undercut sirloin in papaw leaves for rapid tenderness.
A historical note from Yankee Blade recounts a 552 A.D. theft by Persian missionaries who stole silkworm eggs from Corea and carried them concealed in bamboo to Constantinople. From those eggs all European silk generations descend, making the act the most important theft on record.
The Washington Post notes that in France an immutably held rule requires the artist’s consent for exhibition. Milan's congress also declares that the right of reproduction does not pass to the buyer, so a purchaser may own a painting yet not fully own the rights or control its use.
David C Cook of Chicago aged 42, famed for Sunday school publications, began teaching at 17 in Chicago. He founded Everybody's Mission on North Avenue after the 1871 fire, built it with three helpers, and later created North Avenue Mission, Lake View Mission, Lake View Union Schools, and Grace Church School in Elgin, testing new ideas in his works.
A historical portrait of Jack Hossack, a six foot six flatboatman known in the Ohio Valley for extraordinary strength. Anecdotes recount his feats against a Bengal tiger in Cincinnati, where he entered the cage naked and overpowered the animal, illustrating his legendary might and fearless nature.
A fragment notes a quarrel among men and women with blame on a fellow who kissed some of them. It mocks Patience and temper and references a heated social scene. It mentions Beecham's Pills and Halls Catarrh Cure as advertisements and a financial move by the King of Siam to issue paper money.
Dr. R. Schiffmann offers a mail order trial package of Schiffmanns Asthma Remedy claiming instant relief and cures where others fail. The ad requests readers to name this paper and send their address. It notes Bombay street cars are mostly made in the United States.
A vintage health ad extols Syrup of Figs as a pleasant taste satisfying remedy that acts promptly on the kidneys river and bowels cleansing the system dispelling fevers colds and headaches and curing habitual constipation. It claims uniqueness and broad appeal and notes availability in Se and $1 bottles from leading druggists with procurements if not on hand and warns against substitutes.
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