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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1892
Page
3
A collage of jokes and cartoons from early 20th century humor pages. Gags cover farming exchanges, mistaken claims, and light gossip with punchlines about family, courtship, and social quirks. Notable quips involve farm mischief, humorous misunderstandings, and playful banter between townsfolk.
South Carolina and Georgia once dominated U S rice, suited to Atlantic sea islands. Postwar Louisiana adopted rice as cheaper to grow, flooding fields and using levee flumes to supply water. The system faced repeated flume breaks and damage, spurring laws banning rice flumes in levees.
A collection of notes on royal navy wills storage, mahogany trade, cholera policy ideas, carrier pigeons in journalism, Philadelphia women physicians incomes, and anecdotes including De Musset with an Immortal, a Texas editor shooting an enemy, and the death of London Zoo's last giraffe. The piece blends historical logistics, public health, media history, and literary sketches.
Descriptions of Appalachian feud groups along the Virginia Kentucky Tennessee border portray them as cowardly killers who instigate ambushes and assassinations. The text condemns their violence, alcohol-fueled feuds, and the targeting of women and children in cabin fires and killings.
Residents of Carterevi grew alarmed as ore near Carterey reportedly ran scorching hot at eight feet depth. Witnesses claimed the ore could be handled without thick gloves, fueling fears of Satan’s influence and a nearby heating apparatus beneath Carterey.
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