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Newspaper
Western Sentinel
Location
Winston, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1881
Page
1
The text offers moral guidance on personal conduct and virtue. It urges honesty, fiscal restraint, generosity with restraint, respect in speech, debt avoidance, self-improvement, and integrity. It emphasizes that character shapes life, and justice and love should permeate actions and judgments.
During a twenty minute stop at Allen's Junction a conductor urges the engineer to visit a distressed passenger girl rumored to be Jim Kendrick’s child. The engineer recalls Kendrick, his own struggles, and the act of kindness that followed as passengers witness a touching reunion and pledge support.
A newly elected justice of the peace, unused to formalities, presided as a hurried couple entered his office to wed. After brief ceremony and a fifty cent fee, he declared John Marvin and Alice Ewer married, until further order.
A Red Bluff sportsman recalls being bitten by a rattlesnake on the back of the left hand He says he poured powder on the bite struck a match and set fire to it He reports no pain no trouble and no inconvenience from the bite He warns readers to be careful and not blow themselves up
Rev Rylance of St Mark's New York discusses early New Testament manuscripts and the push for a revision to aid common readers. He notes uncial and cursive texts, five ancient authorities, and the Latin Vulgate's influence, arguing the text rests on historic testimony rather than taste.
A Illinois man sent a photo claiming five children born the same day. The Washington journal notes historic cases of multiple births. Examples include a 1779 Valladolid wife with five girls, a July 1779 Paris birth of three boys and a girl, a 1798 Maria Ruiz in Ducena with sixteen boys, and a 1535 Russian peasant with fifty-seven children across two marriages.
Governor recalls frontier life with a tale of a young man and a single woman seeking to wed. The clerk demands wax as payment and the groom brings a wax token costing sixty cents, prompting a cautious exchange about delaying the ring until next week. The piece urges education and prudence to curb hasty marriages and secure a moral reform.
The article notes early accomplishments of leaders and scholars: Napoleon’s brilliant campaigns, Casanbon and Heinsius attaining professorships young, Linnaeus and Curvier publishing and teaching early, Dana and Everett rising to prominence, and poets Byron Shelley Keats Bryant. It also recounts T Howard Payne’s struggle and Home Sweet Home, plus a curious guide to engagement rings and a felon treatment with lobelia tincture.
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