Mutual Benefit and Relief Association Promotes Cheap Insurance
A Wilson county notice extols the Mutual Benefit and Relief Association as a strong home insurer for widows orphans and the poor. It guarantees full death claims by March fifteenth, urges early application, and compares its small assessment plans and savings benefits to old line companies while stressing honesty and practicality.
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Mutual Benefit & S Jief Association
Wilson
Wilson County
Mutual Benefit
More Blessed to Give Than to Receive Lesson
A royal scene contrasts a courtier’s wish for gold with a king’s generosity and a religious reflection on gifts. The piece cites Jesus saying it is more blessed to give than to receive and invites readers to follow the example of selfless giving for others.
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Jesus
Remarkable claim on a San Francisco widow seeking Mexican indemnity
The Star editor notes bandits in Mexico killed Mrs. Janet M Baldwin's husband and she travels to Washington to demand indemnity from the Mexican Government via the State Department. She is the daughter of the late Hon. Daniel Turner of Warren North Carolina and her mother was Francis S Key's daughter. The editor recalls Turner as a fine man and Episcopalian who left Congress willingly and valued sobriety and honesty.
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The
Star
Mexico
Janet M Baldwin
San Francisco
Washington
State Department
Daniel Turner
Warren
Francis S. Key
Turner
Congress
Dudley
Edward Dudleys
Daniel Turners
San Francisco Girl Laura Webster Lapses Into Prolonged Sleep
Laura Webster an 18 year old San Francisco girl has slept seventy days fed only by milk and liquids through a tube. Doctors describe her skin as translucent resembling white chalcedony and say her illness stems from a fragile nervous system rather than other causes. She grew weak after returning from a country summer and is not expected to live much longer.
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Laura Webster
San Francisco
Distressed Parent Debates Son’s Finances and Future
A dialogue reveals a father confiding that his son is dissipated and deeply in debt. He admits poverty limits his ability to disinherit the son, joking he must borrow a shilling to cut him off. The exchange highlights strain, pride, and the social stigma of wealth in a distressed household.
Blizzard Delays Trains Across Minnesota and Dakotas
A new blizzard northwest of St. Paul causes trains to run ten hours late as Brainerd reports heavy snowfall and gale winds. Temperatures fell to sixty below zero in Neche North Dakota with winds at forty miles per hour. The storm, not yet hitting St. Paul, is drifting snow and delaying service.
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St. Paul
Minn
Here
Neche
Dak
Brainerd
Whimsical Prose and News Bits From 1887
A collage of wry maxims and brief items touches on labor disputes in Pittsburg, Diphtheria in Rittersville, a suffrage victory in Washington Territory, tariff talk in Congress, a Baltimore/Princeton note, a royal salary quip about Spain, and Queen Victoria’s thrift driven by Crown Prince provisions.
North Carolina State News Highlights and Local Developments
The report covers bank lending, a North Carolina suicide, cotton factory subscriptions, rising tobacco factory counts, Morganton arbor projects, New Bern fish and oyster exhibit plans, the Shotwell Memorial fund, Wadesboro silk factory progress, a Hall of Teachers’ Assembly contract in Morehead, convict labor, a wedding in Edgecombe, Browning’s burial, Goldsboro whisk broom factory quality, Marine and Atlantic Railroad progress toward Chester, Seaboard and Roanoke system, Rev Pearson meetings in Wilmington and New Bern, Hatch bill optimism for agricultural funding, and notable tobacco market activity in Durham with large four day sales.
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Peason
Wilmington
New Berne
Agricultural Department
Henderson
Agricultural College
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Grand Old Mountains
Durham Savings Bank
Ed. Bass
Nash County
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North Carolina
Morganton
Mr. Pearson
New Bern
Shotwell Memorial Association
Wadesboro
Teachers’ Assembly
Morehead
Edgecombe County
W. B. Wingate
Mamie H Lawrence
W. J. Lawrence
W. J. Wingate
Wake Forest
N. C
Elisha D. Browning
Weldon
Episcopal Church
Watson
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Goldsboro
Mason and Dixon
Marine and Atlantic Railroad
Chester
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Roanoke
Raleigh
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E. J. Parrish
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Salvation Oil
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