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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1893
Page
3
An advertisement promotes Hall’s Catarrh Cure as a remedy for deafness caused by nasal and ear tube inflammation. It asserts a 10 to 90 percent success rate, with claims of curing catarrh and restoring hearing once the mucous lining issues are treated. The notice lists J. Henry & Co. of Toledo as suppliers and mentions medical endorsements and nationwide use.
The fragment lists various patent medicines and tonics such as Brown's Iron Bitters and Dr. Isaac Thompson's dye water claiming to cure malaria indigestion biliousness and liver complaints. It mentions the Colossus of Rhodes cast in over 100 pieces and a notice about a prehistoric city near Zanzibar. It closes with a quip about Cupid and fashion.
The article recounts Gerassim Pribylov's 1786 discovery of the seal breeding grounds on St. George and St. Paul islands in the Bering Sea. It notes the prior ignorance of natives, Russian explorations, and the islands’ remote location 1000 miles north of Sitka, where warm currents meet Arctic seas, creating fog and harsh conditions.
Hartford Post reports Boston houses the largest pie factory in New England located in an old church building. The facility churns about 10 000 pies daily with swift processes from filling to crust to baking. The oven uses a Ferris wheel style system, turning eight platforms at once to bake pies continuously, producing varied sizes and prices from six cents to fifty cents.
The New York Sun notes opium varies with dose, acting as stimulant or sedative, astringent or laxative in small amounts, and as stimulant or intoxicant in large doses for users. Some drugs similarly switch roles by dose, such as ipecacuanha as emetic in large doses or sickness stopper in small, and ammonia altering sickness with quantity.
A Chicago Times commentary contrasts Eskimo dining with factory labor, noting stomach contents ranging from bear and whale meat to blood and putrid fish. The piece lampoons fashionable metropolitan cuisine by imagining extreme polar delicacies that would nauseate a guest.
A letter mailed in London and re mailed in Hong Kong completed its global circle in sixty two days. The record highlights rapid transcontinental mail routing while noting the unusual two-step journey.
A tale recalls Lord Southey's failed self guillotine in Pais in a mirror chamber then gifting the device to a Glasgow museum. It also describes the Dead Letter Office auction of unclaimed or misaddressed items, selling odd contents to the public with proceeds to the U S treasury.
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