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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1889
Page
3
A collage of comic snippets and banter from periodicals and letters features gags about slippers and manners, shopkeepers and jewelers, social scenes, and travel humor. The piece collects quips from Life and Epoch style papers, with mock dialogues and pithy one liners.
Stone-age tombs reveal fixed dwellings and organized community life through dolmens passage graves and stone cists. In burials unburned bodies lay recumbent or seated with weapons tools ornaments and earthenware. Elf-mills on roof stones hint at ongoing offerings and belief in an afterlife as continuation of earthly life.
An old advertisement flavor piece touts Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription for infant health and early care, plus a purgative pellet. It cites Franklin and various observations on nature to sell optimism, work remedies, and B. F. Johnson & Co. timing as a solution for hard times. The tone blends health claims with light humor and public notices.
An advertisement outlines Ingham University Le Roy New York a historic school with superior Literary Music and Art programs plus a strong social culture and moderate rates inviting readers to request a catalogue from Principal Miss R M Webster. The notice appears among various items including a political bill brief and consumer notices.
The report notes 2,000,000 acres reclaimed by ditches in Wyoming Territory and estimates at least 4,000,000 more could be reclaimed similarly. An additional 6,000,000 acres could be developed using storage methods. Together this suggests about twelve million acres potentially usable for farming, beyond grazing lands.
Advice from Home Maker notes children need lengthy sleep for growth and brain development. It cites ten hours up to age fifteen and nine hours until Crontioth year, then six to eight hours minimum for adults, with eight hours preventing nervous derangement in women. It stresses longer rest for excitable children to support intellectual progress.
Information is sought on Johanna Wilson daughter of Mark Sweeney and wife of Thomas Wilson born in Limerick Ireland. If living she is heir to an estate. if dead her children or next of kin are sought. Address W J Coin Webster City Iowa.
The San Francisco Post argues that a public man who draws up and has nothing to say to newspaper men has nothing to relate to his own credit as a general matter.
Summer weakness is quickly overcome by the toning and blood purifying qualities of Hood's Sarsaparilla. Thousands testify it makes the weak strong and cures symptoms like sick headache and dyspepsia. Mrs Turner of We Yanovver reports renewed health after less than a bottle. Sold by all druggists one dollar per bottle.
An elderly clergyman Matheson dies at Patterdale Westmorland aged ninety after sixty years as incumbent. His stipend rose from 360 to about 30 a year, he married twice, raised four children, educated one son at university, and left 8 000. He performed burials and marriages within his family.
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