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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1890
Page
3
A collection of anecdotes about safes, locks, and breaches from business and old bank typical incidents. It recounts a bank door improvisation, a vault floor missing bolt holes, and a Boston repair trip to clear a dirt jam in a key, with client details and prices noted.
The Arsenic Bromine and Lithia Springs Company markets Virginia Water as a universal remedy with claims of curing scrofula and other diseases. Reports describe a balking yet hopeful tale of cures, including a previously incurable case of a man living in the woods who was restored after drinking and bathing in the spring water near Roanoke, Virginia.
The article describes artificial ice production using anhydrous ammonia and brine in large tanks. Ammonia circulates through pipes to absorb heat, chilling brine to near ten degrees above zero. Cans of water are frozen into large ice cakes, cooled, released, and stored for market. The plant yields about 300 pounds per cake and roughly twenty four tons of cans frozen daily, with continuous brine agitation and reloading of fresh cans.
Fragmentary account notes potatoes reaching North America from Chile and Peru via explorers, with earlier cultivation in Ireland and Europe. It suggests misnaming as Irish potato and mentions 1584 cultivation in Ireland and 1879 as a later, broader use.
A traveler, drenched and tired, spends the night in a two room cabin marked Lodging for Man and Beast. At dawn the hostess feeds a herd of chickens and ducks inside the bare room, explaining the birds must be fed there to protect corn from the pigs.
The Right Rev. John Pius Leahy Bishop of Bromore Ireland died recently as the oldest member of the Irish hierarchy. He was consecrated October 1 1854 and was bishop and resident of our Bishop Loughlin's native place.
An advertisement touts hundred dollar Kansas City suburb lots with 200 to 1000 percent returns in coming years. It promises affordable monthly payments and asks readers to request particulars from J. H. Bauerein & Co. in Kansas City Missouri.
Severe frost damaged crops in the Western and Northwestern states, threatening yields and prompting farmers to assess losses and potential reseeding. Movements by weather services warned of continued cold snaps.
Advertisement for Benj Lewis & Co at the Security Building Kansas City Missouri urges investments of $1 or more weekly or monthly to make a fortune and invites readers to write for information.
Quail are protected in Michigan from now till November 1804. Timber mineral farm lands and ranches in Missouri Kansas Texas and Arkansas bought and sold. Tyler Co Kansas City Mo. A fire at Havre France destroyed 80000 mutton carcasses. Woman diseases and their treatment.
An old advertisement touts Dr. Pierce's Pellets as a mild and effective remedy for stomach and liver ailments and bowels. The copy markets this patent medicine to readers seeking digestive relief.
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