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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1888
Page
6
Jimmy left Muskegon for a spree then returned home with plans for a wedding to Priscil. A heavy mishap with a white pine felled him and he died while friends nearby, muttering Priscil. A cousin advised telling the bride, only to learn she had wed a drummer the day before his death. EvuGENE FIELp.
Annie Velga is accused during a factory jewelry theft scare led by John Dart. A detective misreads the situation, finds the true culprit outside, and Annie discovers a room misread as chaotic hid nothing incriminating. John and Annie marry and share a quaint home, while a final reveal shows his stockings held charms instead of guilt.
Jim O Rourke of New York, the left fielder, became the first baseball player to earn a 5000 season salary. He kept his word to the Buffalo and New York clubs, refusing larger offers and treating his pledge as a contract.
A collage of light vignettes and jokes from a 19th century page, including snippets about dogs, shop talk, flirtations, and everyday misadventures. Readers encounter brisk humor about prices, manners, and social foibles framed in witty exchanges and quips.
The Washington Post recounts Capt George Brown at the Ebbitt and recalls Commodore Belknap of Mare Island. Belknap narrates a boarding house joke about a young lady ordering purchases to be sent to the Commandant’s house at the Navy Yard, leading to a comic misaddressed delivery.
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