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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1890
Page
3
An elderly Mexican peon recounts a dramatic encounter near Pachucha with a colossal twenty five foot long snake. Cowboys on mustangs trap and drag the beast from a field using lariats, leaving the reptile maimed and deadliest predators, peccaries, scouring the area at dawn.
Fraulein Johanna Maestrick, a German girl raised in Berlin, rose to fame in Lisbon as a female bull fighter in trials at Oporto and a spring Lisbon show. Crowds cheered as she battled two bulls, with bands and hotel window crowds in attendance. The Bishop of Bangor spoke against substituting historic grammar schools.
In Justice Sheehan's office a comic scene unfolds as John Jenkins and Mary Bounce wed. The piece recalls local justices and their flirtations with brides, while General Booth plans a book titled Darkest England and How to Get Out.
The Borough of Rutherford New Jersey shows growth in church work. Presbyterians erected a stone edifice costing 80000. Peage Peaga rebuilding to more than double size. Methodists seek larger quarters. Baptists move into a new edifice seating three hundred with sixty five members.
A short ad-like notice urging judicious speculation with $1 to $5 weekly or monthly investments to amass fortune. Directed by Benj Lewis & Co at Security Building, Kansas City Mo. Also a livestock tip to keep alfalfa densely cropped to curb weeds and strengthen the crop.
An forty year standing article claims De Tobias Venetian proves its usefulness. The text touts pain relief and curative properties, urging every family to keep a bottle on hand and suggesting savings in time and suffering by timely use.
A hotel host laments a ghostly haunting seen by tourists and a specter demanding higher wages, while a stranger notes the old ruin on the hill behind the hotel as the source of the tale.
A short poetic note describes May dew making the morning air fresh and faces appear bright and fair, evoking a tranquil seasonal mood.
An advertisement from the World’s Dispensary Medical Association at 663 Main Street Buffalo NY touts Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as a superior blood purifier and liver remedy. It promises refunds if no benefit, claims cures for skin, glandular, ulcer, and tumor conditions, and notes sale through druggists on trial.
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