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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1893
Page
4
A new cable linked California and Australia amid a slate storm that battered New York. The storm killed thousands of English sparrows. St Louis recovered from cramps as twelve thousand idle workers returned to work in two weeks.
Emma Goldman, held in New York awaiting a $2,000 bond, vows to write about American prisons and seek vengeance. A doctor remarks that lying on the right side is dangerous, noting lawyers on both sides can act with impunity.
The world’s fair reports an average weekly attendance near one million visitors with a single day total of about 250 000 entries last week.
A Chattanooga Tradesmen writer laments Yankees and notes lake shore train looters escaped. The piece claims the South holds gold deposits from Wa to Alabama and hints at large profits from developing gold fields. A girl will be named Esther, celebrated as a fine name and beginning.
The estimate cites 400 vessels destroyed or driven ashore along the Atlantic coast last week with many deaths. The North Carolina Gazette closes its first volume and begins a second year under editor Whitehead, praised for vigilant, forcible reporting.
Joseph Samuels, aged 91, and his wife, 85, live on the farm where Samuel was born in Page County, Virginia. They have never needed a doctor in their lifetimes and are said to have kept to their own affairs, untroubled by worldly events.
The Twin City Daily Sentinel argues that matrimony resembles a market with supply and demand. It praises educated women for greater independence and value, notes the shift toward brainy partners, and claims intelligent women increasingly command premium in marriage prospects. The piece endorses these views for both sexes.
Sufferers from Orepepsia have only themselves to blame if they fail to test the wonderful curative qualities of Ayer's Sarsaparilla. no purifying the blood, this medicine strengthen: evers orvan of the body, and even the most abused stomach is soon restored to health.
Executor EG MOORDT announces probate of the late E Moore's estate and calls all claimants to present their demands. Interested parties must come forward promptly to protect their rights and disclose any debt or asset.
An advertisement promotes Demorest's Family Magazine for 1893 offering life like baby reproductions by Ida Waugh and other artists. Subscribers pay $2 and receive a gallery of art plus free patterns, with transportation paid for samples and specimen copies available for 10 cents. The pitch emphasizes the value and wide appeal for the whole family.
Public health advertisement touts Dr. Starkey and Palen’s Compound Oxygen Treatment as a cure for obstinate chronic conditions. Claims over twenty three years of success with testimonials and a 200 page book mailed free.
A Rochester New York catalog entry highlights a lamp named She Ro chester bringing morning light to a happy contented home. The listing emphasizes warmth and comfort and invites customers to purchase for bright quiet spaces.
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