14 Aug 1889
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Newspaper
Durham Recorder
Location
Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1889
Page
1
The product claims to kill bugs and worms destroying potato and tomato vines, eggplant, squash, turnip, beet, cotton and tobacco plants. It also targets canker worms caterpillars on trees, lice, cutworms and rose bugs on ornamentals and fruit trees.
In the article a gardening guide explains applying a dust product to soil around plants. Stir the dust into the top inch of soil to target forest worms and other pests without harming the plants.
A reflective poem recalls an old valley mill that stands idle in twilight. The speaker and a companion reminisce about childhood and a whispered confession as the mill wheel sighs and a stream murmurs like prayer, closing the day with calm benediction.
A stormy tale centers on Donald McDee a stingy man who first gasps at giving a bit of board to a cold stranger then prides himself on imagined generosity. A second visitor returns asking for rope offering his remaining rope as a final charitable act and the tale hints at consequences of hollow charity.
A man named Donald McDee, haunted by greed, faces a moral trial after illness. A white woman guides him with gifts and a rope and key as he struggles to remember charity and cross the river to Heaven. The tale blends superstition with Christian exhortation about giving.
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