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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1889
Page
2
A collage of jokes and sketches from late 19th century prints features quips about business woes family squabbles and social pretense. The bits include a boy resisting a stern father a rag picker an undertaker joke a shoe sale tableau and scattered humorous vignettes set in American city life.
A New York Star summary portrays Washington as a hub of cranks with imaginary claims and eccentric determinations. It highlights Charlotte Smith and Mrs. Burnett shaping access to departments, Pinchover’s long running government claims, Clara Morris at the rotunda, and the White House siege by various fantasists including a Potomac Flats designer and a flamboyant Dunlop.
A London gem market case explains how a short sighted Clerkenwell dealer dissolved parcels during weighing by dampening stones. Two watchers captured the act, and after a staged confrontation the thief returned the two missing stones and settled losses with banknotes, escaping arrest.
The article explains that thick snow acts as a warm insulating covering for vegetation, keeping soil temperatures at or above freezing while radiating heat to chill the overlying air. It notes the verdant spring emerge when snow melts and contrasts plant protection with the chilling effect on the atmosphere.
The Arizona Star reports on early irrigation works near the Santa Cruz and Rillito rivers, describing ruins, cobblestones, and archaic ollas. Dr. J. H. Goodwin and others excavated evidence of ancient dwellers whose dammed waters created a large field area, with water reaching 40 feet wide in places and implying long vanished agricultural use.
A fragment describes elephant hide tanning over months with steps in water and salt baths, beating, drying, potash sulphur mixtures, and multiple reprocessings. It outlines weights from about twelve hundred pounds to seventy five pounds of hair, with extended timelines and multiple cycles.
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