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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1893
Page
2
In early New England homes a large assembly-room hosted winter gatherings. Lovers used courting-tubes to share secret words, while grandmother recalls a past romance as Margery reads a riddle about love and fate. Mary A. P. Stansbury.
At Sebastopol a dark Crimean granite obelisk was unveiled to honor the Maidens Redoubt built by women in 1854 during the siege. Admiral Korniloff and city officials led the ceremony with a Greek church procession, memorial hymns, and a display of patriotic fervor. Women, children, and soldiers joined in labor and celebration despite losses among the heroines.
New Orleans leads the nation in banana imports with ships, railroads, and merchants driving rapid distribution. The trade profiles threats of delays, success across coastwise routes, and a firm shipping ten carloads to the Pacific in two days, with Seattle and Los Angeles noted among destinations.
A nostalgic skim of Oregon apples in the gold decade, contrasting lush fortune with modern pragmatism. The piece laments dwindling forties era memory, noting practical attitudes toward fruit value and the earlier boom era once deemed visionary.
A collage of humorous vignettes from newspapers recounts mischief and wit. Jokes feature a cautious boarder dash and jewelry theft in a dining room, frontier adventures with a ginger-bearded man, social quips about wealth and gender, and cartoonish exchanges in various cities.
A large dirigible balcony is being built in France to challenge 28 mph air currents. It resembles the La France design but is larger by 20 feet in length and 43 feet in maximum diameter. It will push 66 pounds per horsepower, using a front propeller and a rear rudder.
Hawati reports a total population of 100000 with native 35007 half casts 6000 Chinese 15000 Japanese 12000 Americans 2000 foreign parentage 7500. Imports 7000000 exports 123280000. Schools 17 native 36 total pupils 10000. Native churches 59 communicants 5427. Foreign churches 11 membership 1190.
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