23 Apr 1890
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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1890
Page
1
In romantic prose, the piece extols vernal rebirth across fields and groves. Birds sing, buds burst, streams glow, and a grateful view of creation invites praise and reverence for divine order and earthly abundance.
Ephor Mirror shares reader items on farming, labor, and weather with notes from Tar Heel. Topics include planting schedules, oat and wheat yields, and opinions on labor supply and costs. Also brief items on fishing, politics, travels, theater, and local misadventures.
A rambling collection of quips and anecdotes covers manners politics and culture. It notes jokes about teaching marriages currency scandals and public figures while referencing royalty the press and notable names such as Samuel J Randall and Admiral Semmes.
Reports from North Carolina: a seventeen member family stays at a Reidsville hotel by Greensboro within forty miles of the city are thirty large cotton factories under construction in Raleigh and thirty six new buildings numbered in Charlotte. Fortunes for Fayettville small manufactories rise to 125000 in six months. Shutz crushed at Greenville railroad bridge. A convict camp and stone quarries planned in Forsyth county. Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley railroad to add Pullman cars. Easter offerings at Oxford Episcopal Church reach 3000 dollars. Drummer evangelist Bill Fife launches meetings in Rocky Mount. Tom Devereux named United States Attorney for the Eastern District. Durham wins at Raleigh concert with Lillie Parish first prize and Blanche Morgan second. Oxford youths plan a celebrated case play. Memorial stones sought for Confederate graves in Fredericksburg. Wake Forest College memorial window gift offered by a California bar. Morehead City Teachers Assembly to host speaker S. B. Curry. Maj. Jo Winder promoted to General Manager of Seaboard Air Line. Tar river dam obstructions hinder shad passage. penalties warned. The capitalist’s agent died Monday at age around 46 leaving a wife and nine children.
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