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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1888
Page
4
Readers warned of revised subscription rates with figures noted for Wilson North Carolina on February 15 888, highlighting price changes.
The text laments over irritability and attack of minor slights in social life and urges a charitable view of others. It discusses a proposed Inter American World Exposition tied to Columbus’s 400th anniversary and notes House approval of Senate amendments pending executive signoff.
A newspaper notes a U S Senate bill to create a World’s Exhibition in Washington’s Columbus district. It lauds Christopher Columbus’s voyages and recalls early exploration near the future capital, urging public opinion toward the proposal.
The Wilmington Star argues mob violence harms society but asserts people will defend themselves when criminal justice fails. It stresses protecting life, especially women, and holds that killers and attackers must face punishment, reinforcing that self-defense is a last resort.
Judge Schenck of Greensboro finishes a 300 page manuscript covering 1780 81. The work aims to vindicate the North Carolina militia at the Guilford Court House battle against recent criticisms by historians.
A. H. A. Williams and other prominent Oxford men plan to begin a new newspaper this week to supplement the Torchlight. H. M. Lee of this place is named local editor and business manager.
The Senate approved the bill providing fifteen thousand dollars to every state for the current fiscal year to support an agricultural experiment station under the Hatch act. An amendment removed the restriction tying payments to proceeds from public land sales and allowed payments from other sources.
A call to all farmers and homemakers in the state to subscribe to the Progressive Farmer, praised as Souths best agricultural paper. It argues weekly issues deliver valuable information and quality writing to improve neglected lands and raise property prosperity.
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