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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1889
Page
6
A reflective poem describing a child’s attic as a trove of family memory. Items pass from marbles to a Roman candle and grandfather’s clothes, with a tense moment exploring the dark Noah’s Ark corner and a blind descent into the unknown. The piece centers on memory, curiosity, and a guarded greeting with age.
Roxory Adams, a nineteen year old teacher in Colchester Massachusetts, finds a historic rosebush tied to Mistress Simpson and a long past battle. A poem she writes about the Colchester rose is rejected, but a meeting with author Mrs Morton Carew elevates her as Roxory Adams, a rising writer. She later helps revive the legend by gathering rosebuds with her brother Tom and meeting Carew at a summer party, where the roses become a symbol of simple beauty and literary promise.
A survey notes farming brightness in business, Southern industrial growth, and Northern capital investments. It reports on Secretary of War Proctor ending Sunday morning inspections and dress parades, plus a Galton diagram discussing the distribution and regard for greatness and merit.
A misprinted British note recounts a thief using a long hook to lift a box of gold and silver from a table. It also describes a shopkeeper profiting from a bad coin by keeping the customer’s coat and waistcoat, illustrating wit in petty crime and retail tricks in London.
The New York Independent recounts a pension tale from Lansingburgh about a man named Spalding who supposedly was captured by the British and sealed in a molasses hogshead. A bear supposedly helped free him after the hogshead burst, a story the man insisted on despite questions.
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