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Newspaper
Wilson News
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1899
Page
6
A nostalgic monologue recalling mother’s baking and simple comforts from a past era. The speaker laments lost meals and treats like biscuits jelly cake and doughnuts and longs for a single piece of pie enough to walk miles for it.
An Alsatian chemist named Paraf travels to America and Chile, posing as a genius inventor. He persuades New York and San Francisco firms, swindles Gov. Sprague of Rhode Island, and promotes a madder extraction and oleomargarine scheme, amassing tens of thousands before a crash. In Chile, he uses a loyal servant to dupe officials into funding a gold transmutation venture, leading to a famous but doomed fraud.
The court heard Paraf claim he discovered a reinvention hoard amid claims of gold recovered from snared assets. Authorities tested a soda sulfide to detect disguises, while Paraf’s fate tied to high public outrage. five years exile with hard labor in Valdivia’s Chillap settlement.
A sermon by Rev. C. S. Horne urges the congregation to value memory as the power that stores deeds of kindness and unselfish acts. He warns that ignored opportunities for mercy become present punishment, echoing the biblical plea son, remember. Treasure in heaven rests on remembered kindnesses.
A collage of curious facts notes global trivia and oddities. It cites 1,200,000 mariners afloat, 116,000,000 English speakers, and Arabic coins in circulation, plus a sleep remedy from Samoa using a bamboo snake. It mentions Sahara’s vastness, a French test on chocolate’s sustenance, a wedding in Auburn Maine, and early sawmill and hydraulic canal history.
A compact meditation on love as a driver of action and the moral weight of choosing to love. It contrasts love with pride and jealousy, asserts moral laws exceed moments, and muses on thought, intellect, and value.
A humorous exchange from Stray Stories features Mr Mangle and a boy on walking straight, prompted by a sister who vows to help her husband be more upright when she marries him.
The piece recalls Squire Clover and his 62 cronies recounting youths' attempts to win Sue Bean. David Clover narrates his crush on Sue, her rival Silas Peterkin, a huskin party, and a prairie tornado that disrupts the scene as Clover seeks to protect Sue. The tale blends memory, romance, and peril with frontier humor.
A speaker in a frontier mining tale mocks social pretenses while a Colorado miner touts whiskey as a snakebite antidote. He recalls two bites near Silver Plume and asserts alcohol cures after venom, insisting the antidote works regardless of snake size and costs little.
Fragmentary text from a newspaper page mentions possible arts topics and local items. Names, places, and dates are unclear, leaving only scattered terms and partial phrases without a coherent event to describe.
A condensed Southern Railroad schedule lists daily No. 35 and No. 37 routes from Charlotte to Atlanta New Orleans and Birmingham with Pullman sleepers and connecting services to New York Richmond Greensboro Norfolk and other points. It notes through cars from San Francisco via New Orleans and the Pacific and mentions connections at Greensboro for Raleigh Norfolk and Asheville etc.
A brief comic exchange in Brooklyn Life jokes about Daniel Webster and Noah building the ark. Mrs Tilford teases Tilford over dictionary work and Noah’s ark punchline reflects light local humor.
A patent medicine touts a stomach cure claiming permanent relief from indigestion. The advertisement promises swift, reliable results from the South American Nervine Tonic, sold by E. F. Nadal Druggist in Wilson, North Carolina.
A fragmented observation notes a single man's ambition in marriage and a married man's attempt to maximize a poor life. It humorously suggests love should light fires like passions, and that a husband improves after playing poker or by reading old love letters to feel valued.
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