Lovely Wilson Women Cast in Praise and Pride
The piece extols several Wilson women linked by praise and admiration. Minnie Harriss, Miss Fannie Green of Franklin, Ida Holden, Hattie Slocumb, Miss May Gay, Lola Wells, Miss Daisy Ruff of South Carolina, Miss Annie Williams of Tarboro, Miss Belle Banks, Miss Ivor Boddie, Jeff Wilson, Miss Lena Taylor, and Callie Charles are styled as graceful, virtuous, and fashionable figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hattie Slocumb
Miss May Gay
Lola Wells
Daisy Ruff
South Carolina
Ivor Boddie
Nash
Jeff Wilson
Fremont
Lena Taylor
Wilson
Ady
Callie
Kuarles
Kinston
A Merry Christmas Message for Our Readers
A holiday editorial wishes readers a merry Christmas and urges spreading joy. It calls for generosity toward the needy, kindness toward others, and renewed faith as a universal scene of peace and goodwill, with Santa Claus and childhood memories highlighted.
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Bethlehem
Santa Claus
Love's Dawning and the maiden's first pure love
An essay on young love describing the first awakening of affection as a heavenly, sacred experience. It portrays the tender emotions of a virgin’s heart, the rose tinted view of life, and the growing blaze of devotion that shines through the girl’s awakening romance. The piece ends with a colloquial note that the girl has "got it and got it badly."
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Paradise
Peri
The True Way: Trust Nurtures Love In the Heart
In the garden of the heart no weeds of distrust should grow for their stench and withering exhalations ruin flowers of affection and devotion. Only implicit trust and gentle ministry sustain tender, delicate love that blossoms with heaven created faith and yields fragrant, harmonizing endearments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paradise
Never Sulk and Let Indignation Foam Free
Advice urging readers to avoid sulking and express anger instead of bottling wrath. Emphasizes that wrath harms the liver heart and soul, urging reflection on mildness humility and serenity of those who endure greater wrongs.
The Spellbinders of a Moonlit Stroll
A young woman and a devoted suitor walk under moonlight when he proclaims a Heaven sent love. She counters with a scientific, disenchanted view of desire, claiming it arises from brain chemistry and atomic compounds, leaving him ravaged and senseless.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson Collegiate Institute
Haeckle
Distinguished Visitor Brooks Praised for Christian Gentleness
The Rev Dr Brooks visited our sanctum last week and was praised as an exceptionally able preacher. The note commends his upright conduct, broad charity, and courage in upholding church tenets while avoiding offensive remarks.
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Brooks
A Critique of Suspicion and Charity in Character
The passage contrasts two types of people. It condemns the suspicious, vindictive heart as foul and putrid and affirms the generous, charitable soul as tender and heavenlike. It equates kindness with a dulcet heavenly melody echoing from a virtuous heart.
Humor as the soul’s clear blue skyward light
The author extols humor as the soul’s clear blue sky guiding talent to shine and genius to pass unshaded. Beauty is likened to a redeeming face in loneliness, harmonizing with color and softening darkness like a flute in a grand concert.
We Know Now A Fair Reader At Hoverton
A poetic prose piece extols Tri Migrom’s fair reader at Hoverton praising her beauty. The narrator declares she radiates charm and kindness, likening her to an Edenic figure whose eyes, smile, and voice bring happiness and distraction from the world’s woes.
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Tri Migrom
Hoverton
Dheer
Earth
Eden
Heaven
Farewell Sermon for Mr Tuttle at Wilson Methodist Church
The community gathered for both morning and evening services as Mr Tuttle preached a farewell sermon in Wilson. The rhetoric praised his consecration and deep faith, noting the sincere affection of all present and mourning his departure while honoring his lifetime of service to the church.
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Tuttle
Methodist
Wilson
Nine Years Old Henderson Gold Leaf Celebrates
The Henderson Gold Leaf marks its ninth anniversary praising editor Thad Manning and the town's progress. Readers are urged to support the paper to strengthen the community and yield long term benefits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henderson Gold Leaf
Thad Manning
Henderson
Laughter and its healthful social role
The piece extols laughter as healthful to the body and mind, contrasting with coarse humor. It praises the genial outburst that enlivens social circles when people forget worries and cast aside tomorrow’s fears.
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Henry Blount
Minnie Harriss
Bnet
Nash Street
Cies Ae
Fannie Green
Franklin
Lilco
Ida Holden
Dunn
Annie Williams
Tarboro
Belle Banks
Petersburg
Ture
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