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Newspaper
Western Sentinel
Location
Winston, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1881
Page
4
A brief local notice emphasizes Winston as the hub for the most complete selection in town. It promotes a specialty line that showcases unique goods and draws attention to the breadth of offerings available to residents and visitors alike.
A humorous antebellum column lampoons urban life with quirky vignettes about a lamp post, a disquieted man, a girl scratching at a door, a boastful baby, a green peach omen, and a cheeky household incident. It skewers manners, work, and childhood through whimsical scenes and exaggerated dialogue.
The Earth’s surface water is shrinking across millennia with the Caspian and Mediterranean histories cited. Rivers and lakes retreat as springs fail, harbors shallow, and Great Lakes levels fall, signaling a rapid, observable decline in global water. notes dredging limits and port shallowness.
Hudson River runs lower than Albany while the upper Hudson and Lake Champlain outlet show reduced summer flow. Across Europe rainfall data indicate lower totals and, by inference, water bodies worldwide decline. The text posits water does not vanish by evaporation but sinks into the earth's interior, akin to lunar water.
A Cobb county reunion tale from the Marietta Journal recounts Ell Walraven returning from the Civil War to find his first wife and three children vanished. After divorcing his Georgia wife and remarrying, both spouses endured further marriages and deaths. Reunited after 18 years, the two renewed vows with J P. Deka Hughes officiating as the couple reunited at Kennesaw. The report closes with odds and ends notes on liquor, a tombstone anecdote, stove cleaning tip, and demographic trivia.
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