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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1889
Page
5
Fragmentary notice mentions Falltertainment at Carolina with Wilson Mirror and apyr 8LOUNT. Reading is incomplete but indicates an entertainment event on a holiday at a Carolina venue featuring Wilson Mirror.
A colonial era column muses on curiously mixed prose and poems, local events, and social notes from Wilson. The piece mentions a circus praised by observers, shifts in local staff, a King family home gathering, Thanksgiving reflections, and a warm reminiscence of past days amid festive courtship and community scenes.
A courting scene unfolds with a young woman at Wilson Collegiate Institute resisting a lover’s ardent declarations. He confesses a radiant, moonlit passion while she grounds love in science, leaving him dazed as they part under a bewitching, lyrical night.
A Salisbury newspaper reports a mining expert found rumors of a vast gold deposit in Montgomery county true. Three parallel veins half an inch thick lie a few feet apart with high gold content. A bucket of solid gold is said to have been removed. The owners are the Sanders brothers, two of whom rushed from Texas to Salisbury after a telegram. Local excitement grows as residents abandon work to seek gold, with one man allegedly taking 2000 pennyweights in two hours before being ordered to stop.
The article advertises a Saturday night stage performance of Only a Farmer's Daughter by a strong company. It promises thrilling situations and moral consequences featuring Madam Laurent Philip Bartram Lennox and others, with emotional acting and a contrast between night and heaven as thematic undercurrent.
Charming Clinton hosts the Sampson County Fair with Gov. Fitzhugh Lee of Virginia arriving by special car to speak tomorrow. Admission from Wilson to Clinton and back is 1.80 dollars, including grounds access, inviting locals to enjoy regional hospitality and exhibits.
Mr. J. M. Forshee of Wilmington showcased half inch rope and two pound bagging from cotton stalk fibre in Macon, Georgia, claiming a four cent per yard manufacturing cost and that one acre yields enough fibre for five bale bags with surplus for rope use. Prof. Ellis of the Carolina Institute in Nashville entertained locals with a lively program, praising the students and a call to fund a library from proceeds and support for teachers.
A pupil tribute from Wilson Academy on 27th alt. honors John Lucas, a beloved schoolmate. The group resolves to accept God’s will, keep his memory, and extend sympathies to his parents, with copies sent to the parents and town papers.
Tomorrow at noon Dr B B Breeden will wed Ida King daughter of State Senator R W King in Bennettsville South Carolina. The ceremony unites two prominent families and promises peace joy and heavenly harmony in a traditional community setting.
A local notice mourns the death of Silas Lucas's seventeen year old son Johnnie who died after a brief illness last Wednesday. The youth is described as bright quick and industrious with promise cut short. The family expresses deep sympathy.
Maj. Weaver killed a nine month old pig weighing 408 pounds and Roselle Stevens killed a fourteen month old pig at 496 pounds. The note invites others to beat the record while joking about Blake Rhodes and his dog resembling an elephant.
The passage describes strolling among graves on a Sunday, admiring the quiet and mystery of the dead. It speaks of a child in a mother’s arms, a workman, a thinker, and a poor girl whose sorrows are soothed by charity and silent resolve.
A youthful thinker argues after much study and experience that a kiss is not a paroxysm but a vociferous vibration caused by atmospheric influences and the vacuum created by labial product manufacture meant to keep lovers in sweet delirium.
The Roanoke News says Dr. G A Foote of Warrenton contemplates writing a medical and surgical history of the Confederate States Navy with which he was connected. He is eminently qualified and the work would be a valuable acquisition to war history.
Presbyterian Church holds morning and evening services on the first and third Sundays and night services on the fourth Sunday. Prayer meeting and lecture Wednesday night. Sunday school at 3 oclock. Perr is pastor.
Public auction of personal property including household goods kitchen furniture and farm items in Oak Shainteinton. Items listed include corn fodder cotton cattle hogs implements and other chattels. Sale date noted as November 12 with details to be announced.
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