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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1888
Page
3
A man riding to visit his betrothed Alice in a haunted rock road encounters a madman who tortures him with a rope and fire in a ruined hut. He is rescued by a keeper and later marries Alice, forever scarred by the night’s terror.
A home cook shares thrifty, simple recipes for a large family. Veal pie uses flour, lard, milk, and boiled veal with onions and gravy, baked under a crust. Dessert is a rice pudding with milk sugar nutmeg and raisins baked to custard-like consistency.
A Yanker runs a terrapin farm sixty miles from Mobile in a three acre enclosure with ditches fed by two canals. About thirty thousand turtles are kept, buried in mud in winter when they do not eat. Feeding costs are around $1 per season, while turtles sell in New York for $17 per dozen.
Mrs Kate Chase formerly married to William Sprague returns from Europe with two daughters and resides at Edgewood in summer. Her eldest daughter Ethel pursues stage study while son William, recently reconciled, lives with her after years apart. Edgewood, valued over 100000, may be sold as Mrs Chase has no income.
The New York Herald reports a revolutionary submarine boat designed by M. Ramagate, to be launched at Toulon on September 15. The vessel can dive beneath ironclads, deploy explosive cartridges by electric wire, and communicate via a fixed cartridge system. It features a 17 meter length, 1.8 meter beam, air reservoirs, dual rudders, a single officer crew, and Krebes electric power with compressed air backups. Preparations include railway transport from Mourillon Arsenal to the sea.
A letter from Montevideo details Patti’s agent Marcus Mayer describing the Cazuela in South American theaters. He notes a female‑only box, front row tickets at six dollars, and one dollar fifty for back seating. He details crowds, guards, and escorts guiding women home after performances.
Dr Castre a French physiologist reports experiments on animals simulating ship motion find intestines displaced and seasickness analogous in humans. Cocaine is cited as a remedy. Another French physician claims two infallible cures atropine with strychnine and caffeine.
DrertopGce Montana December 16 1885 I have used BRANDRETHS Pills for thirteen years with nine children and no doctor except during scarlet fever epidemics. A few pills nightly for liver trouble dyspepsia and constipation. Diarrhoea cramps wind colic indigestion one or two pills cure quickly. A box suffices for the household. They also aid rheumatism colds catarrh hecticness and impure blood. William W B Miller
Belva Ann Lockwood, a pioneering American woman, has twice married, graduated from two colleges, and campaigned for the presidency on two occasions, illustrating early female political ambition and education.
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