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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1891
Page
6
The poem speaks through the axe as it cuts trees and builds, singing of life and labor. It links the rhythmic fall of timber to ships beds romance and farewell, ending with the line we are the trees that fall.
Abel Norris and his daughter Callie settle in 1869 Kansas. Simmons and Dawkins plot to steal Norris’s coal claim. Callie undertakes an overnight ride to Fort Scott to secure a land office contract with a $250 payment. Agent honors her, villains foiled. Norris recovers, coal wealth secure, Callie later thrives in Kansas.
The article highlights Brazil’s vast, largely unknown woods including rosewood satin wood and shell wood from the Amazon valley. It notes medicinal plants such as ipe acuanha polycarp cubeb and nux vomica and references woods used for textiles like Brazil weed and famed furniture wood vinhatico. Juttapercha is also mentioned as a rising price product from two Brazil tree species.
The Mohegan Indians on the Thames River near Norwich Connecticut hold their yearly harvest festival to support their small church in the woods. Residents mingle with visitors at a wigwam festival selling succotash yokeag beadwork and baskets while Mohegan women serve meals. The tribe, now dwindling due to intermarriage and westward migration, remains Christian aided by Norwich residents.
A fragment poem by Margaret G. George reflecting on lost days and the longing to restore joy and time past. The speaker laments time wasted, praying and working, and the pall of doubt clouding present light.
A farmer sues over a goods scam involving a dog used to fetch sausages. The dog carried a written order and led the butcher to more sausages than owed. The dog’s owner boasted of the canine’s cleverness as the farmer ends slightly out of pocket.
The New York Times notes foreigners in the East live in grand palaces with vast retinues where servant costs are low and European courts could not match the display. Owners explain the East demands lavish living to make life meaningful for hasty, gain-seeking travelers.
The excerpt features a father figure telling his son that a contract should be read before paying, noting a 160 foot measurement. The dialogue hints at caution, Lightning protection, and a regretful tone about signing without review, set in a Chicago Tribune style.
A merchant counsels youths to trade focus from leather to cloth, stressing practical experience over idle study. A young man learns that timely information, not waiting, builds success, noting he can obtain facts with leather and seek informants who possess the knowledge.
A humorous dialogue explores why birds have long necks or short legs. Bish argues necks aid reaching food and drink, citing swans and ostriches while noting exceptions like snakes and roosting birds. The exchange toys with natural design and clever explanations.
Fragmented OCR text mentions Jarrah Wood in Western Australia and church builders. References wood types like oak and mahogany, paving, and a church setting. The passage is garbled with incomplete phrases and lacks coherent events or dates.
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