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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1889
Page
6
A Northwestern Miller poem recalls a valley mill with a silent wheel as a youth speaks of love and a blue eyed beloved who whispers that all is well. The scene unfolds in gloaming with a prayerful, tranquil finale. The mill stands idle yet speaks through memory and time.
Sallie Gleason fortifies a log cabin at Little Pinnicon as a Sioux war party surrounds the homestead. Her quick signal to Briggs and Ellery brings danger, but a passing keelboat and cavalry aid avert bloodshed. The successful defense cements the family's pioneer foothold in the Mississippi valley.
A New York Sun interview reveals a foreign claim agency thriving on detailing money held in chancery helping people left behind by family and business. The firms assist patent holders seeking English markets and arrange Atlantic crossings for those seeking debt relief.
An American Agriculturist excerpt explains ventilating a room without cooling it. Heat causes air to rise and fresh air to enter from above, while openings under doors or windows create cold, horizontal drafts. Sleep in well ventilated spaces to reduce cold susceptibility.
The London and China Telegraph describes the young Chinese emperor as hesitant in speech, slow and deliberate, quiet yet obstinate when opinion is formed, with a large head and thin face, clever and likely to rule in fact. It notes a coming struggle if he denies his father influence as Prince Chun clings to power. A Cubiac o paper cites many Chilean agriculturists migrating to Argentina for easier life, with over 5,000 moving in three years.
A wartime tale from Tree Ridge Georgia follows Nelson Holden who after captivity returns to learn his wife remarried. He travels Alabama works as a farmer, later reunites with his former wife’s sister widow, and the two families blend amid loss and new marriages according to the Globe Democrat.
Reported cases involve a veteran who abstained since the war yet drank at a reunion and behaved eccentrically then slept sober. a physician who hosted a dinner and became intoxicated with only water on his system. and a reformed man who joined a drinking party but appeared far less intoxicated.
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