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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1889
Page
7
Rev Dr Talmage uses Nehemiah’s midnight ride to Jerusalem to urge steadfast faith. He links ruin ruins to the need for personal repentance and rebuilding the soul, urging perseverance through poverty loss and sin with triumphant sadness.
A speaker argues brush making offers employment for ex-convicts. He notes that brush bristle insertion remains hand done while backs and handles are machine produced. The craft provides steady demand and may aid rehabilitation until workers find better jobs.
A miscellany of 19th century items noting England's fire-brick trust plans with $15,000,000 capital and a $1.25 per 1000 rise, bear and predator stories in Knoxville trades, a Sweden economists treatise on unity, Palenque ruins, ships like Victory and La Belle Poole, parliamentary slang, jockey Isaac Morony earnings, Princess Maria Theresa’s pet regimen, English doctor etiquette, and proposals for a Lisbon bridge.
A New York Star piece explains rigid naval etiquette and red tape from ship life. It describes the captain’s ceremonial isolation, the quarter deck, and a monthly muster where officers recite the articles of war and general orders in a formal relay from captain to clerk before ending with the pipes.
A Baltimore paper praises Mark Twain’s delightful drawl and notes that status drives judgment of speech and manners. It cites two England military service anecdotes, one about Sir Evelyn Wood recording a private’s nose injury on an Aldershot document and another about an Egyptian ration over-issue resolved by a certificate in lieu of proof.
The article compares common beliefs of precious metals with prices for rarer metals. It lists gold at 240 dollars per pound troy platinum at 130 silver about 12 dollars nickel around 60 cents and aluminum three dollars per pound. It then expands to barium 975 per pound calcium 31800 per pound cerium 160 per ounce chromium 200 cobalt about half silver and didymium equal to cerium with later notes on other elements.
Mrs. Dantes Meixrynx of Pittsburg recalls life in the Marquesas Islands where she spent four years and a half under royal protection. The king tattooed a design on his leg during that period, marking a notable encounter from his life.
A humorous exchange unfolds as a wife laments late returns from her husband. He quips that she would not mind if she went to sheep earlier, prompting a gentle, lighthearted moment between the married pair.
Fragmented OCR reads of a poem about labor roles and social types. It lists a soldier hunter preacher singer driver clerk dealer and a generic dude, hinting at fame work and daily tasks in a decorative, incomplete form.
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