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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1892
Page
6
A fragment of a love lyric describing longing for Jamie's return and a pledge of marriage. The speaker recalls tears and smiles as Jamie declares affection, plights his heart with a golden loop, and grants a kiss.
In Savannah and Tallulah in Georgia, Rosa Adair and Eugene Adair stage a masquerade with Eugene in female dress to woo Johnson Slaughter. The ruse spawns letters, mistaken identities, and a later romance as Slaughter declares love and Rosa confesses, ending in a wedding in Rome with pink decor and bridesmaids.
Observations discuss tiny wheel screws invisible to naked eye and extremely fine threads. It cites heat effects on growth and a Russian traveler’s reports of Central Asian heat. Also mentions ton of coal versus coke yield, and a new instrument called koniscope to detect air impurities by color changes in a glass tube.
The piece describes Bermuda’s lily fields as a profitable crop with lilies packed in cases and shipped by express to the United States. It notes the bulbs and buds endure weeks in water, the season’s bloom reaching up to 100,000 lilies seen at once, and mentions General Hastings who introduced the culture.
Fragmentary excerpt describes the phrase hand and seal in historic deeds. It notes handwritten scores in old English or French, kings and nobles signing with a hand dipped in ink, and the later shift from ink to seal while maintaining formal legal tradition.
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