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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1893
Page
6
A St Louis citizen proposes carving street names on stone at street corners so 241 people can know where they are. The note mentions 50 000 hotels in the United States and cites German cities using municipal restaurants to curb begging and aid the worthy poor.
The rapid growth of Berlin has outstripped its town hall capacity. The municipality bought adjacent ground for 1.3 million dollars to build additional offices and accommodate expanding civic needs.
Egyptian papyri bought for the Geneva public library were examined by Mr. Nicoli who reportedly found fragments of the Iliad and Odyssey. Also present is a fragment from Euripides Orestes, around a thousand years older than the others.
The Chicago Herald notes Turkey will abandon the Arab and Greek calendars and adopt the Western system. The move, long discussed since 1888 in Constantinople, reflects pressure from European financiers that forced the change, despite Turkish attachment to traditional customs.
Governor Rich of Michigan pardoned a Detroit woman previously convicted for shoplifting, marking the state’s first official recognition of kleptomania. The woman confessed two years of theft driven by irresistible impulse, had a well off husband, and remained a Methodist before becoming an inmate at a private asylum.
Dr. J H Porter reports from the southern Alleghany mountains that mountaineers are not taller or healthier than lowland people. Fevers, typhoid, poverty, and poor sanitation plague the region. Snuff use and ignorance persist, with beliefs in local phantoms like the headless bull and black dog.
It would take more than five years to coin all the bullion in the United States Treasury, without an enlargement of the present mint facilities.
Iceland now has a smaller population than twenty years ago with recent migration patterns showing about 600 people moved to the country last summer.
The New York World notes that railway management attracts British nobility with several peers earning substantial salaries, making the line of work desirable for the aristocracy.
Two famed Parisian prisons Roquette near Pere Lachaise Cemetery and the Prison of Ste. Pelagie are to be torn down. The government plans a large new prison to replace them, citing modernization and increased capacity.
A new long taper ing cartridge .30 caliber fires at 2000 feet per second. The rifle with five cartridges in the magazine weighs about nine pounds. An authority predicts noiseless powder and warfare at long range becoming the standard.
Insurance statistics show 1117 deaths from May to September across categories including falls 71 drownings 116 trolley car 44 burns 133 railroad 115 disaster 56 fallen objects 15 runaways 8 street runovers 22 and miscellaneous 538. The totals exclude Grand Island storm tolls over 2000 and pre May 15 cyclone deaths in 1893.
Reverend Talmage portrays Saul’s road to Damascus as a dramatic divine rebuke that unhorses the persecutor, elevating Paul to the highest apostolic rank. The sermon urges sinners to surrender pride, accept grace, and recognize Christ as the conquering, transforming power.
The Trenton community dedicated a monument commemorating Washingtons victory at the Battle of Trenton on December 26, 1776. Funds from New Jersey and Congress supported the project, with wide participation from state leaders and notable figures.
Fragmented OCR notes describe sanctions in a historic Italian republic style. Mentions severe punishment for murderers and a long history of strict justice, including a woman accused of harming her young daughter. No clear date or names are readable.
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