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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1893
Page
6
The Wilson Mirror presents Henry Blount as editor and Geo W Blount as proprietor in its masthead style from the era, indicating a locally run newspaper with clear editorial and ownership leadership.
A Detroit book dealer notes summer sales of light literature rise nearly twofold from winter. Tourists drive the surge, preferring novels and fiction over standard authors.
Theodore Roosevelt envisions the Wisconsin and Minnesota lake region becoming a renowned summer resort for both East and West, rivaling Newport or Saratoga. He notes his own ranch on the Little Missouri gives him authority to judge travel appeal.
The essay notes that Christian name usage arose in England and America after the Reformation, while Baptismal names appeared in other regions. It argues Biblical names were adopted as a reaction against saints names and that not all Biblical names are Christian, with a view that Biblical content defined Christian identity and non biblical elements were deemed pagan.
San Francisco financier Thomas H. Williams warns the recent financial squeeze hit fruit growers hardest as banks refused loans needed to harvest crops. He estimates fruit losses around 109000 dollars, while he says most banks remain liquid and only one failure arose from mismanagement.
The Washington Star notes debate over Viking explorer Lief Erikson and earlier claimants. William E. Curtis reports Rome found no Vatican documents linking Erikson to America and cites church records about Greenland bishoprics and lands with natives. The piece questions who truly discovered the continent and credits fantasy history or Welsh voyages.
The city hosts a wide range of odd livelihoods from demagnetizing watches near Maiden Lane to tasters around Pearl street and appraisers stores. It notes room visiting, black eye painting, tattooing, sidewalk toy sales, and youths polishing door hardware on the west side as brisk, varied occupations with steady earnings.
A brief survey compares life expectancy for temperate and intemperate individuals at ages twenty and sixty five, noting longer survival for temperate people and shorter spans for the intemperate. It cites death rates from beer and spirits and cites annual fire losses reported by Fire and Water for 1891 to 1893.
In Thuringia a district relies on artificial eye production for livelihood with families all working together. Each eye is unique in color and size, produced by blowing glass plates into oval cups then coloring by fine needle tracing to create grays blues browns and blacks for dispatch to various destinations.
The New York World advises eating plain nourishing food and avoiding late heavy meals before bed. It suggests not drinking tea or coffee in the six hours prior and filling the mind with pleasant images to aid restful slumber.
The Washington Star notes that crinoline and wires are used only when a dressmaker cannot achieve flare artistically. Designers prefer one or two crinoline lined ruffles that can be renewed, replacing full crinoline in dresses. The effect after a wet hem is noted as dramatic.
A Philadelphia couple plans a wedding bicycle tour as described in Cycling. The bride will travel in a gray bicycle costume with a white sailor collar and cap, while the groom dresses in knickerbockers, and they will depart amid rice and old shoes.
Mrs N E Bronston of Atchison Kansas has set type for forty three years. She learned the trade in Newport Kentucky at age twelve and later worked on the Topeka Record before the war. She directed binding of Kansas legislative reports and was part owner of the old Topeka Tribune. She later joined the Plaindealer in Garnett and worked at D K R Anthony’s paper in Leavenworth for fourteen years. Now aged fifty five, she has set type in Hutchinson St Joseph and Atchison.
A New York World report notes white costumes dominate Newport society across functions from Casino mornings to formal events. Women wear white duck gowns, white muslin and silk outfits, white chip hats, and white shoes with coffee colored lace showing a preferred bright monochrome style.
The St Louis Republic notes Kensington crape fabrics with crinkled surface resembling India crepes. Manufactured by armore-weavers, they resist washing effects and offer a lighter alternative to rich crepons. Also praised are sheer ceilings in various dyes and silk clairttes for summer fashion.
The article recalls Mollie Stark survived the Bennington conflict and raised a large Stark family in New Hampshire. It notes many Stark descendants once attended the Stark district school, yet the name now wanes in Manchester. A California-based Stark namesake, a thirteen-year-old girl in Alameda, traces lineage to the Bennington hero.
The habit of fancy work is not limited to hotel piazzas and cottage porches but is a widespread social evil.
A New York Advertiser piece surveys tenement districts noting girls learning lace making with cotton wool and colored yarns. They also craft rope reins for neighborhood pretend horse games while mammas sew and crochet. The piece contrasts seaside leisure with humble street life.
The piece describes late season hats and dresses highlighting white straw with black velvet rosettes, jet trims on black silks, and two to three skirt gowns. It notes styles like white tarlatan, mercury wings, ostrich tips, and minimal ribbon, plus coordinated shoe and stocking colors and shorter frocks for girls.
The passage explains a weather code system using letters to describe sky conditions, precipitation, and visibility. It lists letter meanings for cloudiness, rain, fog, and other phenomena, and assigns figures to wind strength from calm to gale.
The text estimates the world’s population distributed across Asia and Europe with vast densities, noting about 1.4 million daily humans in a broad sense and Africa and the Americas with sparser habitable conditions. It contrasts housing quality from clothed to hut dwellers and frames regional living conditions and density.
A fragmented letter or rant discusses crime in relation to property deals and rental markets. It complains about buyers or renters being involved in dangerous or unsettling situations and mocks the idea of houses linked to murders or crises. The piece reads like a jittery observe of market fear.
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