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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1887
Page
3
A Tuesday issue from Wilson County, North Carolina contains a risqué poem urging bold advances and kissing, with admonitions on consent and prudery. The piece emphasizes swift action and intimate acts framed as a maiden's ruse and a duty of lovers.
In a Philadelphia General Convention report the essay contrasts handsome bishops and public figures with common men, noting ideals of male beauty trade on vanity and social perception. It cites Lord Byron, Shelley, Breckenridge, and others as exemplars, arguing that true eminence comes beyond physical looks.
Special Correspondence from Munich describes the universal beer culture and the Hofbrauhaus as the emblem of Bavarian enjoyment. A wedding toast for a butcher’s bride reveals warm hospitality, while a beer hall charcoal portrait sketch ends with the trio enduring a comic artistic session amid elated patrons.
A 1857 observations piece notes New York tailors set fall winter trends while Munich offers beer culture in Hofbrauhaus. It explains how tailors track customer taste to adjust coats trousers and vests each season and describes coats such as swallowtail Chesterfield fly front overcoats and fur trim with cape styles.
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