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Newspaper
Western Sentinel
Location
Winston, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1881
Page
1
A Georgia judge recites a poetic rest vs. work debate before a federal scene. A Mississippi river gambler confrontation unfolds on a steamer as a mysterious stranger challenges Daniel Sturdivant for ten thousand dollars, ends in murder and a vanished avenger.
The passage lists the fates of the apostles with brutal details for Peter Andrew James the Great James the Less Philip Bartholomew Matthew Thomas Simon Thaddeus Matthias Judas Iscariot and John noting executions and deaths. It then compares skill to tempered steel stating talent shines with constant practice and urges shaping oneself through effort rather than dreams.
A historical Mississippi River gambling tale recalls the steamboat era in New Orleans. It highlights notorious gamblers like Daniel Sturdivant, a fearless Fre(ed)man who rose to notoriety aboard riverboats, where card games and pistol clashes shaped life between St. Louis and New Orleans.
The Overcomers promise peculiar inheritance from the Asia churches, claim to work miracles, and foresee universal salvation with a purgatorial process for many. Their leader and saints reportedly head toward Jerusalem to inaugurate a new dispensation. Lathrop touts soapstone as versatile fuel saver and corpse-preserving possibility. Sunset Cox reports Norway as crime free with harmony, music, and devout families.
A fragmented courtship narrative set in New Orleans features moonlight talks and midnight walks. A county court privacy dissolves a blue parlor scene as interview and fear mix with longing eyes and sighs.
The article argues that death is a painless physiological process, noting that pain and death seldom occur together in the final moments. It explains that dying may be preceded by long suffering from incurable diseases, but the act of death itself is typically painless.
A reflective fragment recalls summers full of birds outside windows and flowers in harmony with nature. It evokes a golden era of carefree days, long June, strong health, and untroubled joys before modern ills and insomnia entered life.
A Charlotte social item discusses a marriage plan between a blind woman and a deaf man, praising their mutual understanding and saying their combined senses meet emergencies. The piece also covers varied anecdotes, proverbs, and curiosities, including tobacco history, Jewish health notes, a misprint in a Michigan town, a jury joke in N C, and light wit about aging and fashion.
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