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Newspaper
Wilmington Post
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1869
Page
3
A meditation on life slipping away as time passes the present hour, urging readers to seize the moment. It contrasts fleeting joys with future dreams and warns that death erases rank and wealth, uniting all in the grave. The verse urges action before time melts into the sea of death.
A traveller documents a long European journey from Liverpool to Paris via London Switzerland and Germany. The letter describes Geneva Baden Baden Strasbourg and Paris with notes on views castles clocks and the Chillon fortress. He muses on work and women’s rights in Switzerland and the labor tone of the region.
Our New York letter reports a market collapse with a fatal self destruction of a gold board member and seven brokers ruined as Fisk and Gould are accused of faulty aims. It also covers the La Crosse Indians in Jersey City with James Smith defeating Grey Eagle, and notes busy Fall trade and major new buildings in Manhattan including Tiffanys and the post office.
The passage surveys crops and yields across states, praising corn heights in California and large wheat and oat returns in Michigan Oregon and Kansas. It notes cheese factories in Pennsylvania, peach crops in Delaware, and fruit growing in Florida, with agricultural advice on plowing, manuring, weed management, and hog care.
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