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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1888
Page
3
Theodore Roosevelt quotes a trapper and a French Canadian who survived a remote mountain winter. They built a log cabin, faced starvation, and endured a deadly dog versus man clash before a wolf and deer provided a grim, shared sustenance.
William Brown aged about 55 and Adeline Harris not over 20, both colored from Arkansas, wed after a comic delay. The minister began the ceremony as Brown shouted Let me kiss this gal causing a chaotic scuffle until Adeline defended herself and Brown’s lips connected. The crowd roared at the scene.
The excerpt shows Mrs. Brown and Mr. Brown arguing over temper with Mary and Dy present. Harper's Bazaar is cited as the source of the quoted exchange about temper and heredity.
Despatch from Bonham Texas reports the first clash over the 5 million Bean estate ends with Washington claimants defeated. The trial of administratorship, including Postmaster Howard of San Antonio and Mrs. Sarah A. Dove, hints at further conflicts over land rights and competing wills. The case began November 29 and promises further dramatic revelations.
A Philadelphia Record account describes a New York express train car darkened after Germantown Junction. Couples seized the moment for embraces and whispered confidences as the car lurched, with a widow and a clerical gentleman sharing a diamond sighting and a man fainting in a crowded kiss scene at Broad Street station.
The North China Herald claims Chinamen exhibit exceptional nervelessness able to write and work endlessly without fatigue. It asserts Chinese children are exceptionally obedient and studious, lacking restless energy and recess, and can sleep anywhere under noisy conditions. It even imagines an army trained by sleep across wheelbarrows with a fly mouth open.
Four policemen opened the doors at 8 am as 500 vigil taxpayers surged into the Stewart Building. Major George W. McLean reported over 2,000,000 in checks by noon and total receipts around 4,500,000 with more than 10,000,000 likely in envelopes. Large payments came from Astor, Consolidated Gas, New York Central, Vanderbilt interests, Goelet estate, and Moses Taylor estate as clerks worked through a mountain of money late into the night.
A farmer tells a physician he has not taken anything harmful though he lists a long sequence of potions and medicines ingested from Monday to Wednesday. He admits using syrups, tonics, and peddler elixirs plus liver pills and various herbs before noting little lasting relief.
The O J Wiren Circle Bar outfit near Colorado City Texas was sold at a trustee sale to satisfy a mortgage over 300000. The 160 plus sections included state and railroad leases and stock and herd. L O Ramery of Wisconsin, a principal mortgage holder, bought the property for 214 3:0 including cattle horses and equipment.
Louis Hill, a Union County Mississippi fugitive, planned to poison his wife to marry another woman and allegedly boiled a venomous snake’s head in coffee to administer the toxin. He was arrested after the head was found with coffee grounds. his jail mate George Townsend aided a jail break but Townsend is recaptured and jailed in Mississippi.
A Harper's illustration titled Doctoring Old Time depicts an old timer blowing dust from a clock while a tobacco era relic is discussed. The piece reports on Warner's explorations into ancient formulas and announces Warner's Log Cabin remedies including sarsaparilla, hops and buyeju, cough and consumption tonics, hair tonic, rose cream and plasters. It notes public nostalgia for traditional cures amid distrust of modern medicine and predicts a new era for these root based remedies.
A concise note on M. Hirn's explanation of thunder arising from the sudden heating and expansion of air by a lightning flash. It covers the relation between thunder timing and lightning distance, and compares the sound to a rapidly displaced air column. It also cites bullets and meteorites as analogous sonic effects.
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